The Parenting & Families category has 781 audiobooks on Listento.it, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 3,771 ratings. The most-rated is Kids These Days: A Game Plan for (Re)Connecting with Those We Teach, Lead, & Love.
Homeschool Mom and Dad 101
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Are you tired of traditional schooling? Do you want more family moments and memories with your kids? Do you feel the teachers are not doing what they are supposed to do? Do you feel you are the best person to teach your child, but you have no idea how to go about it? Kendalynn Mowery’s masterpiece, Homeschool Mom and Dad 101, has the best answer for you. There is much uncertainty, bias, and confusion surrounding homeschooling. This book will help you make the best decision for your family and lay out everything you need to know. With interviews from homeschool parents, the book gives a detailed guide to clear your doubts about homeschooling your kids, and give parents already homeschooling more reasons to continue. In addition, the book will walk you through how to transition your family to homeschooling and how to create a curriculum and schedules that work for the whole family. What you will learn includes: Making and continuing the decision to homeschool. What to know before you begin. How to prepare your family and environment for homeschooling. How to homeschool your child or children. How to keep your child well socialized with peers. How to protect your mental health and that of your child. Gain the confidence, information, and skill you need to excel as a homeschool parent in Mowery’s excellent book Homeschool Mom and Dad 101.
©2021 Kendalynn Mowery (P)2021 Kendalynn Mowery
What You Need to Know about Narcissistic Abuse: 2-in-1 Book Bundle Featuring Start Here and Out of the Fog
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In this box set, you get the best-selling book Out of the Fog, and you get Start Here included as a bonus.
The audiobook Out of the Fog will help you get out of the of confusion and into the clarity that you are looking for.
FOG is an acronym that stands for "Fear, Obligation, and Guilt". These three emotions are often at the core of manipulation and are often how narcissists, sociopaths, and other types of emotional manipulators go about controlling their targets.
However, this type of destructive manipulation isn't just limited to narcissists and sociopaths.
There is no shortage of people with well-intended bad advice out there who unintentionally fall into the FOG as well, and push targets of abuse into keeping the relationship going.
The FOG is one of the main reasons that people stay "stuck" in emotionally abusive relationships for so long, why they continue to get involved with abusive people, why they feel that they are the problem, and why they tend to feel that the abuse is somehow their fault.
When a person is being manipulated they have a hard time figuring out who has the problem, what is normal, what is problematic, and if their wants, needs, and feelings are valid. The disastrous effects of being lost in the FOG are confusion, crazymaking, people-pleasing, and erosion of boundaries.
What makes this well-intended bad advice so damaging is that, on the surface, it seems like good advice - especially if it's coming from people who seem to have our best interests in mind, such as friends, family, church members, support group members, or a therapist.
Some examples of this well-intended bad advice that comes from other people is:
"Who are you to judge?" "No one is perfect". "You need to forgive them". "She's your mother, you need to have a relationship with her...she's not getting any younger you know". "Commitment is forever".
What can be so crazymaking for targets is that they are often getting two very different messages. On one hand, they are told that they need to work towards a solution, and on the other, they are told that need to leave a partner who lies, cheats, steals, hits, yells, or belittles them.
This audiobook compares and contrasts of these concepts so that targets of any type of manipulation and abuse can make a more empowered decision.
Some of the concepts covered are:
Who are you to judge vs. being discerning
No one is perfect vs. tolerating abuse
You need to forgive them vs. keeping yourself safe
A parent vs. a predator
Commitment vs. Codependency
Self-love vs. selfishness
A person acting the part vs. a person actually changing
Gut instincts vs. hypervigilance
A friend vs. someone being friendly
Caring vs. caretaking
Being in love with them vs. being in love with who they pretended to be
Workable behavior vs. deal breakers
Acceptance vs. allowance
Going through so much together vs. being put through so much by them
Sincerity vs. intensity
Healthy bonding vs. trauma bonding
Insincere remorse vs. sincere remorse
Reacting vs. responding
And many more.
Plus, as a bonus, you’ll also get Start Here: A Crash Course Guide to Understanding, Navigating, and Healing From Narcissistic Abuse to help you understand all of the concepts, terminology, and FAQs surrounding narcissistic abuse. In this bonus offer, you’ll discover terms such as "Flying Monkeys", "triangulation", "projection", "covert narcissist", "parentification", and dozens more.
©2019 Dana Morningstar (P)2019 Dana Morningstar
Montessori Toddler and Baby Method at Home
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This book is a simple yet very effective guide for new parents, carers and work-from-home moms and dads. It is a compilation of tools and strategies that have been proven effective by the author to be used at home for the benefit of both baby and parent. It is a book of ideas to inspire parents to be more creative in their approach to raising their children, and it offers a wide variety of ways to keep babies and toddlers busy, stay safe, and learn important skills. It is for parents who are looking for more effective ways of raising their children at home in a fun and stimulating environment, without breaking the bank. In this audiobook, you will find out how to: Create a safe and happy environment for your children Make your home into one of the best Montessori environments for children Set up your home for success (You don’t need to be fancy or break the bank) Find the best toys for your child Handle the biggest challenges of being a parent Have fun with your children and raise them to be happy, healthy, and successful And more...
©2021 Lizy Learn (P)2021 Lizy Learn
From Mean to Real Clean
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Parenting children of any age is not a simple undertaking. As much as we desperately want to do it right and be respected and remembered by our kids as being a great parent, our teenagers often test our patience, cause us to lose sleep over our worries about them, and make us scratch our heads in frustration. The good news is that there are concrete ways to experience a fully functioning, highly communicative relationship with your adolescent children. In a challenging, humorous, and sometimes raw guide, Vanessa Baker relies on her professional experience as a teen mindset coach and personal insight as the mother of six to upend the socially accepted attitudes and norms of parenting teenagers. While offering parents an innovative framework in which the acronyms mean, real, and clean are broken down into action steps and powerful mindset shifting concepts, Baker encourages parents to take a journey inward to not only better understand their teenagers, but also themselves as a person and parent. Included is an introduction to her corresponding course as well as information on how to create a fully functional relationship in five steps. From Mean to Real Clean is a comprehensive guide that provides an innovative framework that leads parents down an empowering path to understand what it means to raise teens.
©2021 Vanessa Baker (P)2021 Vanessa Baker
Le marchand de sable va passer
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Finis les couchers difficiles ! Grâce à Valérie Roumanoff, hypnothérapeute, découvrez la méthode infaillible pour endormir vos enfants ! 20 histoires hypnotiques spécialement conçues pour aider les petits à s'endormir, en fonction de leur âge, s'appuient sur le langage adopté en hypnothérapie, ponctué de métaphores et de suggestions douces, qui facilitent naturellement l'endormissement de l'enfant. Tous les conseils pour appliquer la méthode de façon optimale (synchronisation des respirations, indications de lecture...) et pour mieux comprendre les besoins et les réactions de votre enfant face au sommeil.
©2016 Éditions First, un département d'Édi8 (P)2020 Lizzie, un département d'Univers Poche, Paris
Chicken Soup for the Father's Soul
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The coauthors of Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul, USA Today's #1 best-selling sports book of 1999, bring readers this sure-fire hit for fathers celebrating the joys and challenges of fatherhood. New dads, granddads, single dads, and dads-to-be, this book offers them all an entertaining and inspiring collection of stories on the triumphs and trials of the amazing journey called fatherhood. Chapters include: Special Moments, Overcoming Obstacles, Insights and Lessons, The Joys of Fatherhood, Across the Generations, and Achieving Dreams. By sharing true experiences and insights, this book provides reassurance to fathers and a reminder to cherish the special moments in life.
©2001 Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. All rights reserved. (P)2001 Health Communications, Inc.
The Newborn Handbook
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The saying "babies don't come with a manual" may be true - but newborn books are a good place to start. Parenting is a process of phases and milestones, and newborn books are invaluable. Each new stage, as important as the last, serves as a building process for years of parental education and care. The Newborn Handbook will gently and sequentially lead you through each week of caring for a newborn in the first three months - the weeks and months that can be both exhilarating as well as nerve-racking. From how to prepare your home prior to baby's arrival, to both parents' contributions to the stages of early development, this standout in newborn books prepares you for all of the challenging situations to come. Go beyond other newborn books with: Baby steps - Each chapter follows your baby's age sequentially, so you can intuitively follow along in each growth stage. All parents included - This inclusive book is filled with practical advice for all parents and caregivers - even non-biological. Helpful resources - Discover helpful references and resources section with some great additional information.
©2020 Rockridge Press (P)2021 Tantor
Verbal Abuse: How Your Verbally Abusive Relationship Can Wear You Down
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Are you in a verbal abuse relationship? Perhaps not a severe one, but verbal abuse happens all the time. Whenever people are mean to each other, they are, in some small degree, abusing another with their words. It could be strangers, coworkers, bosses, your spouse, your parents, your boyfriend or girlfriend, or your friends. It can be a simple incident or an ongoing pattern. In this audiobook, you’ll learn about: The definition of verbal abuse and why it can be so damaging Common tactics of abusers to manipulate and control Confusing messages you should not buy into when they are coming your way The best ways to deal with the abuse, how to talk, react, when to leave, what to say, etc. The harmful effect of abuse on your work, your relationship, your children, or your self-esteem Causes, reasons, consequences, and issues related to verbal abuse And much more! Curious yet? Then don’t wait and start listening.
©2017 Mandy Womack (P)2017 Mandy Womack
Narcissistic Abuse
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Do you find that the way your partner treated you in the beginning of the relationship is unrecognizable from the way your partner treats you now? Are you persistently made to feel guilty for voicing your concerns in the relationship? For the malignant narcissist, visions of their own grandeur mixed with an over-blown sense of entitlement fueled by a shocking lack of empathy, lead to a truly twisted vision of themselves, other people, relationships, and the way the world works. As a result, their partners, siblings, children, even friends and colleagues, often experience at least some form of narcissistic abuse, which is recognized as a type of domestic violence that can lead to deep psychological issues that can be passed from one generation to the next. In this book, we are going to look at narcissistic abuse from a variety of viewpoints, beginning with the basics of recognizing narcissism in others and ourselves by examining the attitudes and behaviors that mark the narcissist in general and differentiating between benign and malignant narcissism. We will then look at how narcissists work, where they come from, how they see the world and some of their most common tactics including gaslighting and how they use others to do their bidding. From there, we will explore narcissistic abuse syndrome and trauma bonding, how it develops, what the victim experiences, and the warning signs that indicate that you might be suffering from it. After examining these base principles, we will get more into the dynamics of narcissism in various relationships. This begins with narcissism in family relationships and will cover childrearing with an eye toward recognizing how parents often turn their child into a narcissist, how the culture supports this kind of parenting, and how to keep it from happening. We will then see how we can recognize narcissism early on in childhood, including bullying behavior, and steps that can be taken to set the child on a different path. Here’s a sneak peek of what you’ll learn with this book: The one and only rule to distinguish benign narcissism from narcissistic personality disorder; How a narcissist works and what is gaslighting; Understand the two main secrets about dealing with narcissistic parents; How to end a relationship with a narcissist; The 10 questions to understand if you are in love with a narcissist And much more. In Narcissistic Abuse, you will find a roadmap that will guide you all the way from recognizing your narcissist for what they really are to recovering your life from them. Would you like to know more? Scroll to the top of the page and select the BUY button.
©2019 Brandon Dark (P)2019 Brandon Dark
How to Parent Twins: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Raising Twins
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If you want to know how to raise twins the right way from a real life everyday expert, then get the How to Parent Twins guide. This guide is conceived by a real-life parent James Lowery, who has authentic experience in raising his twins. His lessons can help you become a better parent to your twins starting today. Having twins might seem daunting, but it need not be. Raising two young children is one of the most rewarding and exciting things in life. Of course, raising twins is more difficult than having one child. You need to become an expert on child psychology, a world-class planner, and be prepared to miss out on a lot of sleep, but as you watch your babies grow into children and develop unique personalities of their own, you will experience constant joy and every day will be different. This guide is all about taking a practical approach to parenting twins. It helps you to plan your days around your children and get more from your time than you thought possible. The purpose of the guide is not to be an exhaustive guide to parenting - every child is different, and with twins, you will need to be incredibly adaptable. Instead it will give you an idea of what to expect and will give you practical tips on some of the most common issues that parents of twins face in their day to day lives. Whether you already have twins or are expecting them, you will find plenty of advice and useful tips to help you plan your days to get the most out of them so that you can spend as much time as possible helping your children to develop while also creating space for yourself to enjoy some peace and quiet. When you listen to this guide, you will find out how to: How to handle the news that you’re having twins Everything you need ahead of the arrival of your twins The best type of pram for getting your twins around How to plan your daily routine And more
©2019 HowExpert (P)2019 HowExpert
Narcissistic Women - The Concrete Healing Guide for Abused Men
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If you are a man dealing with a narcissistic woman, this book is for you. Additionally, if you are not sure whether your wife or girlfriend is narcissistic, you will find out. By listening to the information in this book, you will learn: How to recognize a narcissistic woman before engaging a relationship with her How to recognize a narcissistic wife, then divorcing and co-parenting How to protect your children from parental alienation How to recognize financial abuse and recover from it How to heal yourself from codependency and narcissistic abuse syndrome How to change your old toxic pattern of relationships and learn to appreciate healthy, empathetic, rational adult women It could be extremely difficult for men to consciously recognize and admit when a woman has abused them. This is just how culture has raised us, as admitting abuse has become shameful for men. Men have a lack of understanding, a lack of resources. They are more ashamed to admit that they are being abused by a woman, and it does not help that the mental health industry is hyper-feminized. Before this book was published, male victims of narcissistic women were not considered the way they deserved to be, and female narcissists were not represented the way they should be. If you are an empathetic man, you have a harder time because of the way our society is, but this book will finally help you to get rid of your toxic relationship and start healing from narcissistic abuse. If you need to start changing your life, don't miss this book!
©2020 Caroline Foster (P)2020 Caroline Foster
The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents
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We are in this together and will get through this together. Parent involvement has always been a vital part of any child’s education, but the pandemic and resulting remote instruction require that parents and educators partner at a deeper level. Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times best-selling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child's academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment - while not overwhelming you in the process. This essential guide will arm you with the tools and insight to: Create an environment conducive to learning, establish routines, and, most importantly, take care of yourself and your child Maximize the time you spend supporting learning by focusing on what is proven to work best in education Help your child develop the cognitive attitudes and habits that foster creativity, critical thinking, and increased responsibility for their learning Support the development of your child’s social and emotional learning skills, including the ability to navigate social interactions, build friendships, and regulate emotions at a time when they have never been more important to have, and more challenging to maintain The Distance Learning Playbook for Parents outlines supportive strategies for navigating virtual environments to ensure effective and impactful learning that aligns the needs and expectations of teachers, parents, and students alike.
©2021 Corwin (P)2021 Corwin
From Breastfeeding to Solid Foods: The Best Practices to Feed Your Baby
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Our goal is to help breastfeeding mothers, or mothers who wish to breastfeed, build their self-confidence and learn to trust their feelings and their baby. That way, they will be able to make informed decisions related to breastfeeding their baby without stress, they won't have regrets, and won't stay with the feeling that they failed.
©2021 EN O'teur (P)2021 EN O'teur
Stop Yelling at Your Kids
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Are you tired of yelling at your kids every day? Would you like to have a peaceful and conflict-free family life? Screaming is definitely wrong! We cannot raise a happy child if we are constantly screaming threats at them. No parent sets out to hurt their child, but this type of parenting does just that. To raise a happy child that wants to behave, you need to retrain yourself first. You need to change the way you think and react to their behavior. You need to understand your triggers and heal yourself. Only then can you begin to heal your relationship with your children. In this audiobook, we will talk about: Why do we yell First approaches to calm Techniques to stop the yelling in your home How to get your child to listen to you How to discipline a toddler who's testing you How to manage passive-aggressive child or teen Good parenting during the coronavirus pandemic Learn to use the positive parenting with the revolutionary toddler positive discipline method which will turn your sons into happy kids! This audiobook will show you why strict and permissive parenting do not work. You will learn just how easy it is to embrace a positive parenting style. While learning how to be a positive parent, you will not only heal the relationship with your children, but also heal yourself along the way. Eliminate the stress! Click on the "buy now" button! You will find the solution to to raise your happy children!
©2021 Lisa Lawrence (P)2021 Lisa Lawrence
What's in Your Pocket?: A Parent's Guide to Protecting Your Children Online
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What’s in Your Pocket? will inspire you to make time to be a student of the culture your children are growing up in. A major part of this culture is the technology that now consumes the lives of so many young people. Through scripture, statistics, technology tips, and stories of experiences, we will convince you that there is no more important task to give your precious time to the task of learning about your children and their Online world.
©2016 Four Point Families (P)2018 Four Point Families
Potty Training
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Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Potty Training: Salient Tips to Help Your Angel “Go” and learn about how to make your angel "go" without the hassle.
©2021 Tenisha Booker (P)2021 Tenisha Booker
Papa 2.0
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"Lorsque j'ai appris que j'allais devenir père, je me suis procuré des guides pour me préparer, et je suis tombé sur des phrases comme : "Oubliez les soirées entre amis, il va falloir trimer !", ou encore "Concession, sacrifice, fatigue... Êtes-vous vraiment prêt ?" J'étais abasourdi par tant de clichés et la pratique m'a confirmé qu'on entend trop de bêtises à propos de la paternité. J'ai donc décidé de livrer mon expérience pour raconter ce qui se passe vraiment au quotidien." Dans ce livre audio, Raphaël Carlier décrit comment la paternité a changé sa vie. Sous la forme d'un journal de bord et à travers des anecdotes à la fois drôles et touchantes, Papa 2.0 va rassurer tous ceux qui ont peur de mal faire. Il pousse les futurs parents à dépasser leurs inquiétudes et leurs préjugés pour profiter pleinement d'un des moments les plus importants de leur vie.
©2020 Flammarion (P)2020 Audible Studios
The Baby Sleep Training Solution
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Does your newborn fail to fall asleep? Do you wake up in the middle of the night with a crying baby? And let me guess, are you and your husband having trouble falling asleep because of your crying child? You'll never have to stand by helplessly again as your little baby screams and cries. Most babies are not decent sleepers necessarily, however they can be! This practical guide contains valuable fundamental knowledge about the essence of sleep and the development of natural sleep and body cycles during infancy that all parents should know. This book is full of (personally) tested techniques that allow your child to feel calm and comfortable all nights. Learn in easy steps how to prepare your newborn for sleep training, begin the process of sleep training, and ensure that after sleep training, healthy sleep patterns persist. Please don't wait any longer. To get the audiobook now and sleep calmly for hours, click the "buy now" button.
©2021 Steve Wisebigar (P)2021 Steve Wisebigar
The Shelter of Each Other
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Our country is in a profound crisis: a crisis of decency, of civility, of character. And families today are experiencing a new set of realities. Our best instincts are undermined at every turn, and our families, to which we turn in crisis, are feeling the strain. Working parents are harried, tired, and overextended. Mary Pipher understands this. She's a good listener, perhaps the best listener in America. And what she has to say goes straight to the heart. Confronted with today's challenges, parents feel helpless to protect their children from the enemy within their homes: the innapropriate television their kids watch for hours, the computer and virtual reality games that keep them from playing outside, when they should be learning from and about the real world. Compounding this is the fact that our psychological theories don't work anymore. These theories were developed decades ago, when families were tightly knit, relatively monolithic institutions, and they're dated. Pipher argues that such theories are of little help in our violent, sexualized contemporary culture. And while diagnosing the problem is the first step in curing it, Pipher offers ideas for simple actions we can all take to help rebuild our families and strengthen our communities.
©1996 Mary Pipher (P)1996 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.
Divorcing a Narcissist
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Do you want to divorce a narcissist? If yes, then keep listening.… Romantic relationships with narcissists typically start out like a fairy tale. There is the moment where you meet the narcissist, and you feel instantly attracted to him or her. You cannot quite place it but something about the narcissist feels too good to be true. There is a reason for this — she is projecting what she is learning is your ideal partner. She learns from the feedback you give when interacting and tweaks her behaviors until you feel like you are looking at an idealized version of everything you want. As you grow more interested in her over time, falling for her pretense of perfection, she will begin the devaluation stage of your relationship, at which point she will essentially crush your self-esteem and leave you scrambling to get back to her good graces. She wants to make sure you are hooked on her, and this is the perfect way to test it. Eventually, as this cycle of love bombing and devaluation continue, growing shorter and shorter with each revolution, she will begin to lose her interest in you. She may decide that you no longer have whatever it was that caught her eye, or she may simply be bored at the lack of the challenge, feeling all of the whirlwind romance hormones fading away, and decide that it is no longer worth her while to pursue the relationship. She may decide to keep you around while seeking alternate sources of narcissistic supply, such as from an affair partner, or she may decide to end things with you altogether, though she will keep you just interested enough in her, with small hints of you being interested in her scattered here and there to convince you that she may still come back for you. Ultimately, what she wants is options for her supply and to perpetually live in the joy of the honeymoon stage of a relationship, though every relationship moves past that if given the chance to properly mature. She mistakes the purpose of relationships as being the honeymoon stage instead of seeing that as just one step in the process to a long-lasting relationship. Ultimately, she wants to do what is best for her, which is typically whatever feels best. She is not interested in a long-term relationship so much as in having fun and being the center of attention. This book gives a comprehensive guide on the following: The seven steps to follow to take your revenge Divorcing a narcissist Partner with just narcissism tendencies Recovering from narcissistic abuse Redefining yourself after the abuse Ending a relationship Psychological manipulation techniques Tips for prevention, FAQs, and helping someone in a narcissistic relationship How to break off a relationship with a narcissist Executing the no contact rule effectively Grieving after narcissistic abuse Extreme narcissism And more! What are you waiting for? Click "buy now"!
©2020 Covert Harper J. (P)2020 Covert Harper J.