Planning Your Family Staycation: Fun Ideas for Your At-Home Summer Vacation

Planning Your Family Staycation: Fun Ideas for Your At-Home Summer Vacation Review

Does your family enjoy a fun and exciting summer vacation but the budget is tight? Are you tired of going away on a week-long trip only to come home needing a vacation from your vacation? Does the thought of crowds at the airport or gas prices make you want to just stay home? Well, you can stay at home and still have a great vacation by having a family staycation!

Planning Your Family Staycation is full of ideas for turning your home into a place you'll want to vacation in, suggestions for activities that your kids will love and tons of tips that will make your family want to staycation again and again.

About the Author: Denise D. Witmer is a recognized writer of parenting and family books and websites including her book, The Everything Parent's Guide to Raising a Successful Child and creating About.com’s Parenting Teens site and publishing its articles and resources since 1997. Her site and advice has been featured in US News and World Report, Better Homes and Garden’s Raising Teens Magazine and USA Today online.

Ms. Witmer has been a ‘professional parent’ at a Childrens' Home in Pennsylvania from 1988 to 2006. Throughout that time, she has taken many group and family vacations and successfully put together countless staycation activities and day trips. She was very active in child and teen development and helped create their independent living programs. She is trained in PET (Parent Effectiveness Training), STEP (Support and Training for Exceptional Parents) and is the mother of three children. She also completed graduate courses at Penn State University for child and social psychology.

The Adventist home: Counsels to Seventh-Day Adventist families (Christian home library)

The Adventist home: Counsels to Seventh-Day Adventist families (Christian home library) Review

Adventist homes can be a little bit of heaven on earth, if certain basic principles are followed. Like a chart to a sailor, this volume offers a reliable guide to those sailing on the challenging sea of matrimony. Counsel is offered on many facets of home life: choosing a mate, child discipline, grandparents, holidays, hospitality, moral standards, divorce, and living with an unbelieving spouse. The author points out pitfalls to be avoided and shows how to have a happy marriage by injecting the grace of God and the priciples of Christian courtesy into every aspect of family life.

Book Specs

Hard Back
Publisher: Review & Herald Publishing Association
Printed: 1980
Pages: 583

Table of Contents

SECTION I
THE HOME BEAUTIFUL

SECTION II
A LIGHT IN THE COMMUNITY

SECTION III
CHOOSING THE LIFE PARTNER

SECTION IV
FACTORS THAT MAKE FOR SUCCESS OF FAILURE

SECTION V
FROM THE MARRIAGE ALTAR

SECTION VI
THE NEW HOME

SECTION VII
HERITAGE OF THE LORD

SECTION VIII
THE SUCCESSFUL FAMILY

SECTION IX
FATHER—THE HOUSE-BAND

SECTION X
MOTHER—QUEEN OF THE HOUSEHOLD

SECTION XI
CHILDREN—THE JUNIOR PARTNERS

SECTION XII
STANDARDS OF FAMILY LIVING

SECTION XIII
THE USE OF MONEY

SECTION XIV
GUARDING THE AVENUES OF THE SOUL

SECTION XV
GRACES THAT BRIGHTEN FAMILY LIFE

SECTION XVI
THE HOME AND ITS SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

SECTION XVII
RELAXATION AND RECREATION

SECTION XVIII
THOU SHALT BE RECOMPENSED

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (Experience the Life)

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (Experience the Life) Review

Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children.

Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

Taste of Home: Busy Family Cookbook: 370 Recipes for Weeknight Dinners

Taste of Home: Busy Family Cookbook: 370 Recipes for Weeknight Dinners Review

Save time, and your sanity, with the 370 recipes that feature simple prep techniques, and easy cooking methods?some take as little as 10 minutes to make?from the experts at Taste of Home, the #1 cooking magazine in the world.

Tired of coming home to calls of ?What?s for dinner?? from your family. This collection of 370 family-pleasing recipes will help you get a delicious dinner on the table?fast?every night of the week. Each chapter is arranged by speed, with the quickest recipes first. So, if you have only a few minutes, make one of the 10-minute entrees. If you have a little more time, choose a 20- minute recipe. There are also 30- and 60-minute choices. Each recipe features a short ingredient list, simple prep techniques and easy cooking methods.

The best part is these time-saving recipes are packed with flavor and variety?from beef, poultry and pork to seafood, meatless, sides and desserts. Plus, there are 226 full-color tempting, mouthing-watering photos! And it?s all from the editors of Taste of Home, America?s #1 cooking magazine! Taste of Home The Busy Family Cookbook is just the kitchen helper you need for fast and flavorful meals!

Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Involvement

Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Involvement Review

Using the culturally responsive family support model, this text prepares teachers to work effectively with the diverse families of their students

Filled with practical suggestions and reflective opportunities, Home, School, and Community Collaboration uses the culturally responsive family support model to prepare readers to work with children from diverse families. This text includes contributions from 24 experts in the field in addressing the issues in family involvement that today’s teachers are likely to encounter.

Key Features

• Covers family systems theory, family involvement models, and the family support approach
• Includes a wide range of practical strategies for use in today’s schools, as well as activities that help readers make connections between the course content and their own experiences
• Features case studies and vignettes that provide opportunities for reflection and help readers apply text information to real-life settings

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• A Student study siteoffers practice tests, flashcards, web resources, and SAGE journal articles on topics covered in the text.

New Diabetic Cookbook: Delicious recipes for the whole family (Better Homes & Gardens)

New Diabetic Cookbook: Delicious recipes for the whole family (Better Homes & Gardens) Review

At last—a cookbook for people with diabetes that allows them to prepare and share delicious, as-good-as-it-gets meals with their families. Guaranteed nutrition and inspired taste from America’s number one publisher of cookbooks.

150 recipes designed for diabetics and tasty enough for everyone in their families.

Diabetics will take pleasure in flavorful, imaginative, and healthful meals.

Comprehensive, in-depth section discusses all aspects of managing diabetes—from the basics to healthful food selection and meal planning, as well as the importance of physical activity.

Includes complete list of food exchanges.

Every recipe includes nutrition facts and exchanges based on the American Diabetes Association’s exchange system.

More than 50 enticing, full-color photographs to inspire cooks.

Menus to help in meal planning.

Tasty recipes use familiar ingredients.

Edited by a registered dietitian in consultation with health professionals and other food professionals.

List of resources to contact for additional help with diabetes.

Family Child Care Homes: Creative Spaces for Children to Learn

Family Child Care Homes: Creative Spaces for Children to Learn Review

In family child care settings, it is important that the environment promotes the comfortable feeling of home while also supporting children’s needs and maximizing their learning experiences. Filled with wisdom from an experienced family child care professional, this resource includes advice to enhance any setting and knowledgeable suggestions for item selection, furniture arrangement, storage, and more. Loaded with color photographs and architectural illustrations of indoor and outdoor family child care settings, this resource provides plenty of inspiration and practical information to create a comfortable, home-like setting that benefits children of all ages.