The decision to include pets as a part of your family can be fraught with uncertainty. How do you know when the time is right? How do you select the right pet? Choose a proper diet? Avoid common injuries? Provide adequate exercise? Avoid allergies? Share caretaking responsibilities? Not share germs or parasites? Whether you are ready to take the plunge or just beginning to explore the possibility, Can We Have One? is an essential, convenient resource for parents considering pet ownership--or pet owners considering parenthood. Veterinarian Lynn F. Buzhardt and social worker Sue D. Steib combine their expertise and experience with emerging scientific evidence to offer practical and easily implemented recommendations for critical issues related to raising children and pets together. With engaging warmth and humor, they explore bringing a new baby into a pet-owning couple's household, selecting the right companion animal for your family, managing child-pet interaction, coping with the loss of a pet, and more. The authors focus on dogs and cats, the most common pets in American households and the ones with whom children and adults are most likely to form the strongest attachments. Pets require a lot of their caretakers, but they give much more in return. Can We Have One? explains all the adjustments to anticipate and the pitfalls to avoid, helping you provide a happy home for your pet while allowing your children to get the most out of the pet-child relationship.

No One Can Tell You Who You Are Except You A Simple Guide To Knowing Your True Self Your guide to repattern the blueprint you were born with and create the life you deserve. Pier Pagano's practical book of essays and exercises will inspire, motivate and teach you how to use your own powerful tools to make peace with your past and embrace your present and future possibilities. Learn how the traits you hide are sometimes the most enlightening and wonderful qualities you have. You just don't know it yet. Your own intuition is the most honest voice you have. Get to know your authentic self though the strengths you keep in your powerful toolbox. By carefully examining your past, you can let go of what no longer serves you, shifting your perspective to embrace what is already inside you. Opening your heart to yourself allows you to acknowledge and accept that every part of you is essential. Forming a loving and trusting relationship with the real you is the beginning of living a fulfilling life. When you know who you are, no one can tell you who to be.

The glint of a gun barrel caught his eye it was the second to last thing wealthy Los Angeles businessman Griffin Gambil would ever see. There is a loud, percussive pop, a spume of red, and the final seconds of his life are spent watching his own blood spilling onto his Gucci loafers before collapsing in the driveway of his mistress house the ink on his Last Will and Testament still wet. Meanwhile, in another part of L.A., attorney Benjamin Harding feeling jilted by the legal system is turning his back on the practice of law after twenty years. Ben now looks forward to spending his days as a carefree sun worshiper and people watcher along one of Southern Californias most fascinating stretches of sand, Venice Beach. Just settling into his new life, Ben is contacted by the long lost love from his youth newly widowed, Samantha Zimmer-Gambil asking Ben to handle her deceased husbands estate. Finding the woman of his dreams once again available, Ben reluctantly agrees to take on this one last legal matter but it quickly exceeds what he intended. Officially ruled as suicide, Samantha is certain her husband was murdered, enlisting Ben to go above and beyond the call of your average probate attorney in trying to discover who killed her late husband. Searching for clues takes the reader on a fun but dangerous romp, surfing and sailing through the ocean communities of Los Angeles and offshore to the isles of Santa Catalina and Hawaii. YOURE THE ONLY ONE I CAN TRUST offers up a fine webbing of plot twists, unusual suspects, aspects of travelogue, legal primer, and a touch of the bizarrely erotic, spun together in a murder mystery that will keep the reader guessing right to the final page.

Whether you are a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed new parent or a down-and-out experienced parent looking for a reset button in your parenting life... Do you often wonder if you are doing the right parenting? Do you often doubt your parenting skills and struggle to deal with your guilty conscience? Do you wish you knew the secret to raise confident, disciplined, happy and emotionally secure children? Do you often worry about the effect of social media, bullying behavior or excessive screen time on your children? Do you struggle to find productive ways to partner with your children? Parent – If I Can Be One! is a practical and compassionate book that is going to be your friend and confidante as it introduces you to the concept of Positive Parenting, helping you form deeper connections with your children. Full of fascinating stories, parenting strategies and examples, this book is packed with research-based engaging exercises that will help you rediscover YOURSELF as a parent. This book will help you: • Discover relatable parent-children scenarios • Explore your parenting style and uncover beautiful ways to partner productively with your children • Demystify several challenging parenting situations and resolve several dilemmas • Inspire, strengthen and empower you by helping you create loving and lasting bonds within your family • Establish trust and better communication with your children • Provide powerful exercises to reflect on your parenting journey and transform the way you have been connecting with your children... ...as you learn and realize how parenting starts with YOU! Happy Parenting!

Contributors: Ann Barham, Chloe Bryer, Ian T. Douglas What Can One Person Do? confronts a poverty-stricken world, and with clarity of purpose offers practical steps to create lasting change. Global poverty can be reduced through a series of achievable objectives: the eight Millennium Development goals agreed to by the international community at the Millennium Summit in 2000. World leaders and faith communities have adopted the MDGs, as well as the ideas found within this book--for the authors demonstrate that as shared vision grows and as these goals are accomplished, human communities shall indeed flourish.