Simplify Your Household: How to Make Your Home Work with Less Housework (Reader's Digest Simpler Life Series)

Simplify Your Household: How to Make Your Home Work with Less Housework (Reader's Digest Simpler Life Series) Review

Just about everyone wants, on some level, to simplify his or her own life, but in the rush of the late 20th century, the desire is often supplanted by the fact that people are moving too fast and are so involved in the details of forward motion that they can't get themselves organized enough to think about simplifying anything!

Aronson offers a straightforward, uncomplicated plan for simplifying many of the daily details of running a home, including space-saving storage techniques; labor-saving tips on shopping, decorating, and regular maintenance; remedies for common stains and proven cleaning strategies, room by room; and clear checklists and resource lists. Easy-to-follow charts and seasonal checklists make this a simple book to use, and the hundreds of useful and practical tips on safety, maintenance, cleaning, basic repairs, and preventive measures make this a handy book for anyone wanting to make life a little less hectic and a little more comfortable while spending less time doing it. --Mark A. Hetts

Family Circle Slow Cooker Meals (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking)

Family Circle Slow Cooker Meals (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking) Review

Family Circle Slow Cooker Meals (Better Homes & Gardens Cooking) Feature

• ISBN13: 9780696240850
• Condition: New
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• More than 200 slow cooker recipes include meaty main dishes, poultry entrees, meatless dishes, soups and stews, and savory sandwiches.
• “Simple Serve-Alongs” chapter provides fast, easy recipes for tasty salads, breads, sides, and desserts to complete any slow-cooked meal.
• “Bring a Dish” chapter highlights crowd-pleasing, kid-friendly fare that's perfect for potlucks and gatherings.
• “Quick Menu” boxes suggest easy accompaniments to complete the meal.
• At-a-glance callouts highlight Fast Prep, Kids' Favorites, and Freeze with Ease recipes throughout the book.
• 100 enticing color photos will inspire you to pull out your slow cooker and get started.

Llama Llama Home with Mama

Llama Llama Home with Mama Review

Llama Llama, morning light.
Feeling yucky, just not right.
Down to breakfast.
Tiny sneeze.
Sniffle, snuffle.
Tissues, please!

Ah-choo! Uh-oh, Llama Llama's nose is feeling tickly, his throat is feeling scratchy, and his head is feeling stuffy. Back to bed, no school today for Llama Llama! Instead, he's home with Mama. By lunchtime, though, he's beginning to feel a tiny bit better. But now someone else has the sneezes . . . Mama! And who will help her feel better? Why, Llama Llama, of course! Anna Dewdney's fun-to-read rhymes are sure to help children and their parents get through those under-the-weather days.

A Student's Guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy (Oryx American Family Tree Series)

A Student's Guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy (Oryx American Family Tree Series) Review

This guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy provides middle school and high school students of Scandinavian descent with historical background information, instructions and resource lists for compiling their family histories.

Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home and Community

Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home and Community Review

WANTED: mothers, fathers, laypeople and leaders to serve as watchmen-sentinels who stand watch on behalf of our families, our churches and our nation. After reading Watchman Prayer, readers who accept this assignment will be equipped to discern the direction of the Lord and the plans of the enemy. They will learn how, with the Holy Spirit's leading, anyone can pray a perimeter of protection around their loved ones, their city and the Church, and then unravel the schemes of the devil with strategic prayer. Join with Dutch Sheets and a host of others to take on this critical role and play a key part in the Church's ultimate victory. Everyone must be on the alert! Read Watchman Prayer and learn everything you need to know about this sacred calling, a calling God is sending out to all of His people.

Taste of Home: Kid-Approved Foods: 300+ Family Tested Fun Foods

Taste of Home: Kid-Approved Foods: 300+ Family Tested Fun Foods Review

For the first time, over 300 beloved kid-friendly recipes from the real home cooks at Taste of Home are gathered into one beautifully photographed volume. More than a cookbook for kids, and not just a collection of recipes that kids will love, Taste of Home Kid Approved Cookbook offers fun, achievable ways to bring families together and celebrate childhood fun!

Recipes include:

• French Toast Sticks
• Chicken Alphabet Soup
• Our Favorite Mac & Cheese
• Scooter Snacks
• Chocolate Malt Crispy Bars
• Pink Velvet Cupcakes

Icons throughout the book highlight recipe activities for all ages. And a special chapter is devoted to the youngest of cooks.

I'm Already Home: Keeping Your Family Close When You're on TDY

I'm Already Home: Keeping Your Family Close When You're on TDY Review

Military families are especially vulnerable to separations. This book is an easy-to-follow, practical quide to fun and inexpensive ways for keeping service men and women connected to their families while they're away. It's an essential tool for military personnel preparing for active duty training. It also contains connection strategies tailored to the unique demands of the military family before, during and after deployment. This valuable guide will help lessen the impact of being apart from those we love.

Carried Safely Home: The Spiritual Legacy of an Adoptive Family

Carried Safely Home: The Spiritual Legacy of an Adoptive Family Review

Nearly six in ten Americans have a significant personal connection with adoption, yet little has been written about the subject from a biblical perspective. Adoption usually includes a tumultuous mix of sorrow and joy, loss and redemption, fear and fulfillment. Though often heart-wrenching, it offers a rich opportunity to draw nearer to God. Adoption can also be a precious part of a pilgrimage toward God. This book is a companion to come alongside those involved with adoption and the blessings found throughout the twists and turns of the journey.

The Tafts (First Families)

The Tafts (First Families) Review

Examines the private life and political career of the only president to also serve as Supreme Court justice and describes the influence of his wife, Nellie.

Watchman Prayer: How To Stand Guard And Protect Your Family, Home And Community

Watchman Prayer: How To Stand Guard And Protect Your Family, Home And Community Review

WANTED: people to serve as watchmen-sentinels who stand watch on behalf of our families, our churches and our nation. When you accept this assignment, you will be equipped both to discern the direction of the Lord of hosts and to be forewarned of the plans of the enemy to destroy us. Led by the Holy Spirit, you will pray a perimeter of protection about the Church and your loved ones; then you will unravel the schemes of the devil with strategic prayer. Are you willing to take on this critical role and play a key part in the Church's ultimate victory? Be on the alert! Read Watchman Prayer to learn more about the watchman's vital role-a role you can enter into.

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers Review

The Healthy Home: Simple Truths to Protect Your Family from Hidden Household Dangers Feature

• ISBN13: 9781593156558
• Condition: New
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In The Healthy Home, a father and son--Dr. Myron Wentz, well-known microbiologist and founder of the USANA Corporation, and Dave Wentz, CEO of the USANA Corporation--take readers on a tour of a specific home for a look at the surprising health risks posed by the everyday products and behaviors of a modern family. Beginning in the bedroom and ending in the garage and backyard, readers learn about the degenerative effects of toxins in the home and receive simple solutions to help minimize exposure without foregoing convenience.

The Healthy Home is not a comprehensive tome on modern health hazards; nor is it a treatise on eco-conscious living. Instead, the book focuses on the most important environment--the home--and the problems that can most easily be lessened or eliminated. Busy parents who suspect that they should be doing more to protect their family but don't know where to start will learn about practical changes they can make in the next fifteen minutes, fifteen days, or fifteen months to create a haven for healthier living.

When Substance Abuse Attacks Your Home: A true story of a minister and his family, who faced drug addiction in their home and lost.

When Substance Abuse Attacks Your Home: A true story of a minister and his family, who faced drug addiction in their home and lost. Review

The book, 'When SubstanceAbuse Attacks Your Home,' is written with great pain and many regrets. Itshares more than facts and realities about drug addiction. The book alsoconveys the hard realities that accompany chemical dependency. These detailsare not appealing, but never the less, brutally honest. The book is filled withup-to-date research on this critical subject. Invaluable information andresources are made easy to retrieve, and practical touse. Among the many special features of this book, is the clear explanation ofwhy it is so difficult for a drug addict to break away from his/her bondage.The relational aspect of substance abuse is uniquely put side by side the unionbetween a husband and wife, 'until death do us part' This book offers the reader factseasy to comprehend and numerous experimental insights. Since this book iswritten from a family's viewpoint into substance abuse, the reader cannot help~but feel the pain and see the tears a family lives through when one of theirloved ones is chemical dependent. While the main focus is on the drug addict,another touching and helpful feature, is the unmaskingof the torments of the addict's parents and siblings.

Faith Begins @ Home Prayer

Faith Begins @ Home Prayer Review

Parents want to pray at home with their children, but many don’t know where to start. This new series of Faith Begins @ Home resources is designed to help parents bring faith home. Faith @ Home Prayer is an easy-to-use resource that starts from square one and ends in a 24/7 lifestyle of family faith. Parents will find step-by-step tips and age-appropriate guides for leading kids into a lifestyle of prayer, as well as true-life stories from families experiencing the power and blessing of God in their homes as they develop their “spiritual skills” with their children.

Literacy, Home and School: Research And Practice In Teaching Literacy With Parents

Literacy, Home and School: Research And Practice In Teaching Literacy With Parents Review

Parental involvement in the teaching of reading and writing has often lagged behind practice, though schools in many countries now recognise the importance of parental involvement. The ideas presented in this book offer new ways of thinking about parental involvement and should interest both researchers and practitioners. It relates the recent growth of involvement to broader considerations of the nature of literacy and historical exclusion of parents from the curriculum.; Descriptions are given of key findings from research into pre-school literacy work with parents and parents hearing children read, and a framework to underpin practice is offered. The author gives a critique of evaluation methods in the field and suggests how parental involvement should be evaluated together with a view of research findings to date and issues needing further study. The book concludes with an appraisal of what was learned from research and what needs further enquiry.

Aunts (Families series) (Pebble Books: Families)

Aunts (Families series) (Pebble Books: Families) Review

Aunts (Families series) (Pebble Books: Families) Feature

• ISBN13: 9781429617499
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Simple text and photographs present aunts and how they interact with their families

Family-School Links: How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes? (Penn State University Family Issues Symposia Series)

Family-School Links: How Do They Affect Educational Outcomes? (Penn State University Family Issues Symposia Series) Review

Based on the presentations and discussions from a national symposium on family-school links held at the Pennsylvania State University, this volume brings together psychologists, sociologists, educators, and policymakers studying the bidirectional effects between schools and families. This topic -- the links between families and schools, and how these affect children's educational achievement -- encompasses a host of questions, each of key social and educational significance.
* How far does parental involvement in schools affect children's experiences and achievement at school?
* What explains the great differences between schools, families, and communities in the extent of such involvement?
* Are these differences a matter of school practices, or do they reflect much broader social and cultural divisions?
* What is the nature of the impact schools have on children and their families?
* How can family-school-partnerships be fostered in a way that helps children?

The chapter authors consider these questions and related issues, present different perspectives, highlight various aspects of the issues, and suggest widely differing answers. This volume's goal is to provide the reader with current information on what is known about family-school-community links, and to provoke new ways of thinking about these links and their implications for children's education and well-being.

Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War

Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War Review

David French picked up the newspaper in the comfort of his penthouse in Philadelphia, and read about a soldier - father of two - who was wounded in Iraq. Immediately, he was stricken with a question: Why him and not me?
This is the story of what happens when a person - rather a family - answers the call to serve their nation. David was a 37-year-old father of two, a Harvard Law graduate and president of a free speech organization. In other words, he was used to pushing pencils, not toting M16s.
His wife Nancy was raising two children and writing from home. She was worrying about field trips and playdates, not about her husband going to war.
HOME AND AWAY chronicles not just a soldier at war, but a family at war - a husband in Iraq, a wife and children at home, greeting each day with hope and fear, facing the challenge with determination, tears, and more than a little joy.