Love Is Not Enough - to Prepare Your Child for Life's Challenges

Love Is Not Enough - to Prepare Your Child for Life's Challenges
Author: Halim Ozkaptan
Publisher: Hal Ozkaptan
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2010-03-21
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0557186471

This book describes the parental techniques necessary to develop their child's self confidence and courage to maintain a moral balance, in view of today's media, drug, and internet onslaught. The constraints of family and community have been loosened; at the same time the child needs disciple and boundaries to withstand temptation and negative pressures. It is designed to help a child overcome his or her self doubt and fear when faced by life's challenges and peer pressure. The key developmental needs of a child, self realization and fellowship, are described. Principles, techniques and illustrative examples are also given to help a parent train a child to become a confident and self assured good person.

Wisdom of the Soul and Life's Challenges

Wisdom of the Soul and Life's Challenges
Author: Halim Ozkaptan, PhD
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1483467716

The relationship between the soul, consciousness and spirituality is presented. The soul is a part of God that he has bestowed upon us. It is our moral source. It represents our love and positive emotions that contribute to our moral value and growth. Consciousness is our creative and life force that derives from the soul. It is the spark of life that creates and sustains us. Our spirituality reflects the quality of our soul that is expressed through our conscious behavior. It is the intermediary between the soul and consciousness. We are spiritual beings living a mortal life and are reflections of God's love and spirit. Free will and choice are our burden. We are challenged to avoid less than honorable deeds. Our behavior, actions and treatment of others become the essence of our character. We are also spiritually interconnected. We attract like spirits throughout our lives for support, personal growth or loss. Our life represents the wisdom of our soul.

Overcoming Life’s Struggles For Success and Happiness

Overcoming Life’s Struggles For Success and Happiness
Author: Halim Ozkaptan, Ph.D.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2014-08-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1483415686

As an eighty four year old person looking back, I would like to pass on some observations to those of you starting out and looking forward. Your lives will be one of rational and emotional choices in a world of social reality and obstacles to success. Your natural goals will be to achieve success and happiness. An implicit goal in this quest will be the development of your potential and self-realization. You will also be challenged and tested by life's events in order to grow and develop your character. Ultimately, the achievement of your goals will be a function of your resolve and perseverance, despite the obstacles with which you will be faced. Your resolve will depend upon the interaction of your conscious thoughts, faith, beliefs and spiritual underpinnings. The following material brings attention to this important aspect in your lives.

Beyond Love - The Fullfillment of Love and Marriage

Beyond Love - The Fullfillment of Love and Marriage
Author: Halim Ozkaptan PhD
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 101
Release: 2012-02-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1105554422

This book describes how love develops our spiritual and better nature and is the basis of happiness. God's love permeates the world and sustains it. We share a part of God's spirit and consciousness. His reality is love which we reflect and strive for. When we are loved and love another, our spiritual nature flourishes and is manifested in our behavior. Marriage is the home of love, mutual devotion and support. Through your love and devotion for each other, you achieve your finest potential. A deep and abiding love ultimately leads to sacrifice for one another. The happiness and welfare of your loved one is your happiness. When you have reached this stage of selfless love, you have found the essence of God's love. You will be beyond love and a part of God's everlasting spirit of love. You have realized that love is the only reality. All factors related to the development and sustainment of love and marriage, including issues such as adultery and divorce are discussed.

Mindstorms

Mindstorms
Author: Seymour A Papert
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2020-10-06
Genre: Education
ISBN: 154167510X

In this revolutionary book, a renowned computer scientist explains the importance of teaching children the basics of computing and how it can prepare them to succeed in the ever-evolving tech world. Computers have completely changed the way we teach children. We have Mindstorms to thank for that. In this book, pioneering computer scientist Seymour Papert uses the invention of LOGO, the first child-friendly programming language, to make the case for the value of teaching children with computers. Papert argues that children are more than capable of mastering computers, and that teaching computational processes like de-bugging in the classroom can change the way we learn everything else. He also shows that schools saturated with technology can actually improve socialization and interaction among students and between students and teachers. Technology changes every day, but the basic ways that computers can help us learn remain. For thousands of teachers and parents who have sought creative ways to help children learn with computers, Mindstorms is their bible.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children

Doing Life with Your Adult Children
Author: Jim Burns, Ph.D
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2019-03-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310353793

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful encouragement for navigating this tough yet rewarding transition. If you've raised a child, you know that parenting doesn't stop when they turn eighteen. In many ways, your relationship gets even more complicated--your heart and your head are as involved as ever, but you can feel things shifting, whether your child lives under your roof or rarely stays in contact. Doing Life with Your Adult Children helps you navigate this rich and challenging season of parenting. Speaking from his own personal and professional experience, Burns offers practical answers to the most common questions he's received over the years, including: My child's choices are breaking my heart--where did I go wrong? Is it OK to give advice to my grown child? What's the difference between enabling and helping? What boundaries should I have if my child moves back home? What do I do when my child doesn't seem to be maturing into adulthood? How do I relate to my grown child's significant other? What does it mean to have healthy financial boundaries? How can I support my grown children when I don't support their values? Including positive principles on bringing kids back to faith, ideas on how to leave a legacy as a grandparent, and encouragement for every changing season, Doing Life with Your Adult Children is a unique book on your changing role in a calling that never ends.

Love Her Well

Love Her Well
Author: Kari Kampakis
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2020-08-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0785234195

Now an ECPA Best Seller—Kari Kampakis's Love Her Well gives moms ten practical tips for how to build strong and lasting relationships with their daughters. For many women, having a baby girl is a dream come true. But as girls grow up, the narrative of innocence and joy changes to one of dread as moms are told, "Just wait until she's a teenager!" and handed a disheartening and too-often-true script about a daughter's teenage season of life. Author, blogger, and mom to four daughters Kari Kampakis thinks it's time to change the narrative and mind-set that leads moms to parent teen girls with a spirit of defeat instead of strength. Love Her Well isn't a guide to help mothers "fix" their daughters or make them behave. It's about a mom's journey, doing the heart-work necessary to love a teenager while still being a steady, supportive parent. Kari offers wisdom about how moms can: Choose their words and timing carefully. Listen and empathize with her teen's world. See the good, and love her for who she is. Take care of themselves and find a support system in the process. By working on the foundation, habits, and dynamics of the relationship; mothers can connect with their teen daughters and earn a voice in their lives that allows moms to offer guidance, love, wisdom, and emotional support. Kari gives mothers hope, wisdom, and a reminder that all things are possible through God, who is the source of the guidance and clarity they need in order to grow strong relationships with their daughters at every age—especially during the critical teen years.

How Not to Be Wrong

How Not to Be Wrong
Author: Jordan Ellenberg
Publisher: Penguin Press
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-05-29
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1594205221

A brilliant tour of mathematical thought and a guide to becoming a better thinker, How Not to Be Wrong shows that math is not just a long list of rules to be learned and carried out by rote. Math touches everything we do; It's what makes the world make sense. Using the mathematician's methods and hard-won insights-minus the jargon-professor and popular columnist Jordan Ellenberg guides general readers through his ideas with rigor and lively irreverence, infusing everything from election results to baseball to the existence of God and the psychology of slime molds with a heightened sense of clarity and wonder. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives. How Not to Be Wrong shows us how--Publisher's description.

10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know

10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know
Author: Kari Kampakis
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0718019350

These ten simple truths can build one big change in your daughter’s life. When Kari Kampakis wrote a blog post in July 2013 titled “10 Truths Young Girls Should Know,” the post went viral and was shared more than 65,000 times on Facebook. Obviously her message strikes a chord with moms and dads across the country. This nonfiction book for teen girls expands on these ten truths and brings a Christian message to the hearts of both moms and daughters. Teen girls deal daily with cliques, bullying, rejection, and social media nightmares. Kari Kampakis wants girls to know that they don’t have to compromise their integrity and future to find love, acceptance, and security. Her ten truths include: Kindness is more important than popularity. People peak at different times of life. Trust God’s plan for you. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Otherwise, you’ll never stick to your guns. Today’s choices set the stage for your reputation. You were born to fly. Fans of Kari's blog and newspaper column will not want to miss her first book. Filled with practical advice, loving support, and insightful discussion questions, 10 Ultimate Truths Girls Should Know is a timely and approachable list of guidelines that will help young girls navigate a broken world and become the young women God made them to be.

A Little Life

A Little Life
Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 833
Release: 2016-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0804172706

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.