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Educare oggi è la registrazione di una conferenza dello psichiatra e sociologo Paolo Crepet, proposta come audiolibro dalle Edizioni ENEA...

Sports fans see Joe Buck everywhere: broadcasting one of the biggest games in the NFL every week, calling the World Series every year, announcing the Super Bowl every three years. They know his father, Jack Buck, is a broadcasting legend and that he was beloved in his adopted hometown of St. Louis. Yet they have no idea who Joe really is. Or how he got here. In Lucky Bastard, Joe takes the listener into the broadcast booth and into his childhood home. Hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking, this is a book that any sports fan will love.

We all carry people inside our heads - actors, leaders, writers, people out of history or fiction, met or unmet, who sometimes seem closer to us than people we know. In The Man Within My Head, Pico Iyer sets out to unravel the mysterious closeness he has always felt with the English writer Graham Greene; he examines Greene’s obsessions, his elusiveness, his penchant for mystery.

Raising extraordinary children is an elusive feat for many parents because most have never had training on how to do it. In this concise audio program, top motivational and parenting experts will teach you how to raise happy, healthy, self-confident children who will always love and respect you for doing an exceptional job as their parent! The biggest regret parents have later in life is not spending enough time with their children, feeling they didn’t do a good enough job. The true measure of how good a parent you are is how well your children turn out.

Ken raised his three sons in a squeaky-clean suburb of Los Angeles. He envisioned fatherhood as coaching their sports teams, taking them to church (where he was the pastor), and visiting colleges one day. Instead, he got an education on the street names of opioids, fluency in rehab vernacular, and an insider’s view of the California prison system, when his middle son, Lucas, accidentally killed a man with his car while high on heroin.

The day I inseminated my wife is the last day I ever had control of anything. Since then, I traded in my low-paying university job for a no-paying volunteer position as an at-home dad to a C.E.O. whose communication style consists of screaming directly in my face until I figure out what it is she wants, which often times does not exist. I have no lunch hour, no vacation days, and my bank account consists of a dilapidated envelope with a steadily disappearing $27 in it.

With so much information out there, it can be difficult and time-consuming to sift through the hundreds of resources available to you. You could be spending that time bonding with your partner and preparing for this exciting new experience, and that's where this guide comes in. Don't spend time guessing and worrying over matters like finances, self-care, and social support. It's never been easier to learn all you'll need to know about parenting - take it from someone who's been in your shoes and knows what you're going through.

As a closeted teen, Ian wondered if he would ever be able to live openly with a male partner. Years later, he had not one but two partners in a polyamorous throuple - what more could he ask for? But something was still missing.... Join Ian and his partners, Alan and Jeremy, as they embark on a sometimes hilarious, sometimes tearful quest to become parents.

From the New York Times best-selling author of Brady vs. Manning and dean of football writers - an audiobook that explores the many interesting facets to NFL quarterbacks and their relationships with their fathers. My First Coach goes behind the scenes to explore the unique relationship between these and other quarterbacks and their fathers, as well as investigate various approaches to parenting through their stories. Can young athletes overcome helicopter parents? How did the kids with NFL aspirations deal with their fathers who'd already made it?

At the pinnacle of a soaring career in the U.S. Army, Lt. Col. Mark M. Weber was tapped to serve in a high-profile job within the Afghan Parliament as a military advisor. Weeks later, a routine physical revealed stage IV intestinal cancer in the 38-year-old father of three. Over the next two years he would fight a desperate battle he wasn’t trained for, with his wife and boys as his reluctant but willing fighting force....

Almost everyone yearns to know their parents more thoroughly before they die, to solve some of those lifelong mysteries. Maybe, just maybe, those answers will help you live your own life. But life doesn’t stop to wait. In his fifties, New Yorker writer Tad Friend is grappling with being a husband and a father as he tries to grasp who he is as a son. Torn between two families, he careens between two stages in life. On some days he feels vigorous, on the brink of greatness when he plays tournament squash.

Audrey "Sunshine" Monke, mother of five and camp owner-director, shares nine powerful parenting techniques - inspired by the research-based practices of summer camp - to help kids thrive and families become closer. Research has proven that kids are happier and gain essential social and emotional skills at camp.

Like many of us, Jason Gay didn’t see this coming: a reshaped world, on edge, often stuck at home, questioning everything, trying to navigate a digital landscape that changes how we think, parent, coach, and live. With a series of topical and interconnected personal pieces, Gay comically takes on this new state of being, looking for the optimism and joy in the face of discouragement. Gay's essays run the gamut of modern life and he approaches it all with humility, grace, and more than a few laughs.

Some dads may be struggling in the parental department and are looking for help strengthening their relationships with their children. If you're feeling that way, then this book can offer some new perspectives on how to reach your child, plus tips and tricks on how to establish a lasting relationship. With 10 ways to relate with your kids, over 60 activities for strengthening bonds, and an easy three-phase process that can be utilized when you're faced with tough parenting trials or dilemmas, Humbled Dad, Invested Dad is something every dad will glean from....

"Cosa posso fare per i miei figli?", "Qual è il meglio che posso offrire loro?" A queste domande, che sintetizzano le mille preoccupazioni dei genitori nei confronti dei figli, Alain Braconnier dà una risposta univoca e chiara: l'ottimismo! Più dei prestigiosi percorsi formativi, dei tanti corsi "di qualcosa", delle amorevoli cure e attenzioni perché siano sempre ben nutriti, ben vestiti, ben educati, in salute, in forma, istruiti, protetti, e chi più ne ha più ne metta, ciò che serve davvero ai nostri figli è una buona dose di ottimismo.

Being a dad is never an easy job; however, with this audiobook, you’ll learn to protect, provide, and encourage your daughter to walk in victory throughout her life. Get the information you need today to be the dad you always wanted to be. A Dad’s Guide to Raising a Daughter: Learn to Protect, Provide, and Encourage Your Daughter to Walk in Victory Throughout Her Life is a bundle of two of our best audiobooks in one.

George Glass, MD, a board-certified psychiatrist, has designed an audiobook to help parents understand the challenges of beginning new lives with blended families, and to help their children make the necessary adjustments. He explains how to approach unavoidable dilemmas when they occur and offers invaluable lessons about the link between divorce and issues of self-esteem, depression, substance abuse, and relationship failures that often result from the breakup of a family.

Marc Sedaka stood by while he and his wife endured endless rounds of drug therapies, 16 artificial inseminations, 10 in-vitro fertilizations, three miscarriages, and finally, a gestational surrogate (“womb for rent”) who carried their twin girls to term. He was as supportive and loving as he could be, but he really wished he'd had a book like What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting during the process.

A response to all those grandmother books with flowers and puppies on the cover, Grandma Rules is a book for the hip, baby boomer grandma who realizes that after all the work she put into her own kids, she can take a break and have fun with her grandkids. A perfect gift for the greatest grandmothers you know, this book is laugh-out-loud funny while offering useful insights and tips on how to embrace the world’s greatest job.

Writing with the same descriptive flair that has won his novels so much praise, W. D. Wetherell tells the true story of his high-school-age son's winning soccer season. Soccer Dad is simultaneously the candid reflections of a devoted father and the enthusiastic observations of a diehard soccer fan. When Matt enters his senior year of high school, it is not without myriad parenting concerns on the part of his father, author W. D. Wetherell. What is his role in shaping his son's future? What will life be like when Matt is away at college? And what of Matt's soccer season?