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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• Instructor Resources on CD offer valuable resources for qualified adopters, such as sample syllabi, teaching tips, PowerPoint presentations, and a comprehensive test bank. Contact Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE from 6 AM-5 PM, PT, to request a copy.                                                                                                                              
• 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.

The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide

The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide Review

Question: Where can parents go when they need quick answers to tough questions about discipline, schooling, money, living with a toddler or teenager, creating a strong spiritual foundation, sex education, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, and making marriage work?

Answer: The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide by Dr. James Dobson, America's most respected expert on marriage, parenting, and the family. This comprehensive, easy-to-access resource offers time-tested, biblically based information to help build healthy, God-honoring families. This is a softcover release of the book Solid Answers, previously published in hardcover.

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

Taste of Home Kid-Approved Cookbook: 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
• Berry Ba-nanza Smoothies
• Chicken Alphabet Soup
• Our Favorite Mac & Cheese
• Scooter Snacks
• Veggie Cheese People
• Pigs in a Blanket
• Cheeseburger Cups
• Chocolate Malt Crispy Bars
• Pink Velvet Cupcakes
• S’more Ice Cream Pie

 Icons throughout the book highlight recipe activities for all ages. And a special chapter is devoted to the youngest of cooks. Each recipe is perfect for the whole gang, making your little one a proud contributor to the family meals.

When Disaster Strikes Home! 101 ways to protect your family from unthinkable emergencies

When Disaster Strikes Home! 101 ways to protect your family from unthinkable emergencies Review

This book is a great source of easy-to-understand family disaster planning strategies that can protect you from many of life's emergencies. It will help get you prepared and ready for virtually any emergency that could happen to you and your family at home or at work.

More Hours in My Day: Proven Ways to Organize Your Home, Your Family, and Yourself

More Hours in My Day: Proven Ways to Organize Your Home, Your Family, and Yourself Review

Home–management experts and authors Emilie Barnes and Sheri Torelli spruce up this classic by adding newly updated material and an eye–catching cover. For more than 25 years, Emilie and Sheri have conducted time–management seminars and taken the opportunity to listen to the thousands of attending women express their hearts’ desires—to find more hours each day for what really matters most: family, home, and quality of life.

This book is their response. Here’s a thorough collection of those time–tested answers to every woman’s dilemma...

• Establish simple systems that save time and money and gain peace of mind
• Organize the home’s problem areas—kitchen cupboards, crowded closets, home offices, and more
• Reclaim precious time for family and friends

Filled with inspiration, encouragement, and tried–and–true tips, this book is a must–have for every woman!

Sew Charming: 40 Simple Sewing and Hand-Printing Projects for Home and Family

Sew Charming: 40 Simple Sewing and Hand-Printing Projects for Home and Family Review

Create these simple, modern sewing projects using your own one-of-a-kind fabrics!
 
Transform what you sew. Personalize and customize your sewing projects in a whole new way by learning to design, print, and embellish your own fabrics. Sew Charming includes forty fresh, easy-to-sew projects with optional fabric-printing ideas. Inside you’ll find patterns for clothing, accessories, and decorations for every room in your house.
 
From the designers of the popular fabric line, Prints Charming, invite you to get creative and offer step-by-step instruction for basic screen-printing, sewing, and embroidery techniques. They provide everything you need to handcraft truly one-of-a-kind pieces—from cozy baby quilts to sophisticated table linen, chic wall art to playful sundresses. Whether you are eager to experiment with fabric printing or already have the perfect material in your stash, these simple yet creative projects are ideal for all levels of sewers looking for bold inspiration.
 
With beautifully photographed stitch and screen-printing guides, detailed instructions, and three pullout pattern sheets, it’s never been easier to create bright, modern items to enliven your home and the people that share it with you.

Families Where Grace Is in Place: Building a Home Free of Manipulation, Legalism, and Shame

Families Where Grace Is in Place: Building a Home Free of Manipulation, Legalism, and Shame Review

Now updated with discussion guides for families and small groups, Families Where Grace Is in Place continues to minister to couples and parents nearly twenty years after it was first published. Using his professional and personal experience, VanVonderen shows readers how to nurture God-honoring relationships free of manipulation, legalism, and shame. This book is a practical and insightful discussion on living a graceful life and building a strong and happy home using God's tools.

The War at Home: One Family's Fight Against PTSD

The War at Home: One Family's Fight Against PTSD Review

When your soldier returns home to you, it should be a happy and joyful time. You are glad your spouse is safe and sound back home and can't wait to get your life going again. Everything should be great! But what if the homecoming is anything but great? What if suddenly you can't connect, or you feel worlds apart? What if your vet is no longer interested in going out or being around other people? Maybe your spouse isn't sleeping well, or worse, becoming violent while asleep. Your vet may not be reconnecting with the kids and may seem uninterested in any new additions to the family. What if your spouse gets angry at small things or even becomes violent? What do you do? Do you ignore it and keep thinking it will get better if you give it more time? In February 2003, Shawn Gourley's husband, Justin, returned home from his tour in the Middle East where his ship was deployed to assist Operation Enduring Freedom. Cracks were already showing in his personality, cracks that would widen dramatically into full-on fractures by the time he returned home in June 2004 from his third tour that marked the end of his military career. For the next 4 1/2 years their relationship was very difficult, and at times, downright terrifying for her and the children. It wasn't until January 2009 that Justin was able to get treatment. He was finally diagnosed with PTSD in August 2009. Those are the broad strokes of their story, but the details of how Shawn fought to save her family will leave you transfixed until the end.

Coming Home Again: A Family-Of-Origin Consultation

Coming Home Again: A Family-Of-Origin Consultation Review

This is a case study of a single family that underwent family-of-origin therapy, presented by one of the earliest and best-known pioneers in the field. This book presents the two dimensions of the therapeutic experience: that of the therapist and that of the clients. Framo and Levine serve as the therapy team, while Weber and his family are the clients in these two specialized, intense, brief intervention sessions that occurred one year apart. The transcripts of the sessions are supported by commentary from both therapists as well as insights from Weber - the client - who brings to bear clinical knowledge and knowledge of himself and his family. The underlying story - the story of the therapists - is almost as compelling as the family's story. It is a candid, honest look at family-of-origin therapy from those who partook in the sessions.

Halfway to Each Other: How a Year in Italy Brought Our Family Home

Halfway to Each Other: How a Year in Italy Brought Our Family Home Review

Halfway to Each Other: How a Year in Italy Brought Our Family Home Feature

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The remarkable true story of a couple on the brink of separation who finds love again while spending a year in Italy with their family now including an update five years later.

Tired, empty, and disillusioned with married life, Susan Pohlman was ready to call it quits. As soon as she and her husband, Tim, completed their business trip to Italy, she planned to break the news that she wanted to end their eighteen-year marriage.

During their last day as they walked along the Italian Rivera, Tim fantasized aloud that, perhaps, they could live there. After initially dismissing the idea, Susan realized that she wanted to give their marriage another try and that maybe life in such a beautiful place could bring them back to each other.

Together with their fourteen-year-old daughter and eleven-year-old son, they leave the hectic life in Los Angeles for a more intimate lifestyle in Italy.

Susan's funny, touching story reveals how stepping out of their normal day-to-day lives truly united her family in a whole new way. In this expanded paperback edition of Halfway to Each Other, readers will be able to enjoy the original story of their adventures -- no cars, no television -- and find out where they are today. When they returned to the United States, they went not to California, but to Arizona -- and to a brand-new life.

Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships

Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships Review

The author provides practical strategies for cultivating communication with Latino parents and including the Latino family in developing sustained academic improvement.