The demands of a new baby can test a couple’s relationship like nothing else! When we factor in sleep deprivation, hormonal changes, depression and anxiety, and different personalities, life with a newborn can feel a bit CRAZY. Couples tend to misinterpret this rough patch as a sign that something is wrong with the relationship, but when couples take steps toward open communication and safeguard their relationship, they can face everything new parenthood throws at them together. From the team behind the bestselling Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts comes a new guidebook of short essays, comics, and quick journal prompts about the stressful newborn stage, the struggles that so many new parents face, and the skills you need to tap into your strength as a couple.

This work explores why feminism comes into conflict with women who have children, and why women with children suffer when they try to put feminist ideas into practice.

Over the past three decades, the standards-based reform movement has transformed K-12 education in the United States, culminating with passage of the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. Beyond making reasonable accommodations for special needs students, standards-based education pays little attention to other areas of student difference, relying instead on a "rational actor" model of student experience, and ignoring how differences in students' backgrounds and orientations impact their particular experiences of schooling. This book examines the development of standards-based education, with particular scrutiny of the roles of the National Governors' Association and its National Education Summit events. Examination of important documents emerging from those events provides an illustration of the conceptually impoverished understanding of student subjectivity, motivation, and agency inherent in standards-based education. In order to understand both problems with and alternatives to standards-based education, the author examines the roles of ideology, rhetoric, and audience in school policy. In three case studies, the author analyzes several non-school models of education, including Marine Corps bootcamp, Ving Tsun kung fu training, and an online, school resistance community. Johnson argues that examination of these learning contexts provides a better understanding of the shortcomings and dangers of the standards-based model of student subjectivity, and suggests a set of fourteen principles to inform the development of more student-centered alternatives.

How can we make religious equality a reality for those on the margins of society and politics? This book is about the individual and collective struggles of the religiously marginalised to be recognised and their inequalities, religious or otherwise, redressed. It is also about the efforts of civil society, governments, multilateral actors, and scholars to promote freedom of religion or belief whatever shape they take. The actors and contexts that feature in this book are as diverse as health workers in Israel, local education authorities in Nigeria, indigenous movements in India, Uganda, or South Africa, and multilateral actors such as the Islamic Development Bank in Sudan and the World Bank in Pakistan. Some of the case studies engage with development discourses and narratives or are undertaken by development actors, while other cases operate completely outside the international development paradigm. These case studies present some important insights, which while highly relevant for their contexts also draw out important insights for academics, practitioners, activists, and others who have an interest in redressing religious inequalities for socioeconomically marginalised populations.

The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.

Provides specific information on how to transform schools into results-oriented professional learning communities, describing the best practices that have been used by schools nationwide.

What's the Solution to this Mystery?Christians are awakening to the place of Israel in God's end-time events. What is their place in the dramatic return of Jesus' Jewish disciples? Where do Messianic Jews fit in? Is Torah for the Gentiles?Eitan has lived what he is writing, and has an exceptional vantage point for showinghow essential this union is, in preparation for the return of our King. Don Finto, Pastor Emeritus, Belmont Church, Nashville, TennesseeIt is essential that Jesus' disciples embrace God's end-time purposes regardingIsrael and the Church. Eitan has written a book from the Father's heart that will help us pursue those purposes. I urge you to read this book. Mike Bickle International House of Prayer, Kansas CityI guarantee that anything Eitan shares, preaches, teaches, or in this case, writes, will bless and enlarge your heart for the God of Israel and her people. I promise! Paul Wilbur Recording Artist, Integrity MusicEitan Shishkoff has written a very special book. It is personal, warm and solid in theology. It relates Jews and Gentiles together in mutual purpose with maturity and balance. I heartily recommend it. Daniel Juster Tikkun Ministries InternationalThis is a very important and readable book by a respected Messianic Jewish leader, living in Israel. He is saying to believers in every nation, "We need you!" I can't think of a better person to write this book. Dr. Michael L. Brown, President FIRE School of MinistryThis message of "What About Us?" is one every follower of Jesus--Jew and Gentile--needs to have imparted to them. I am confident the Father has brought about this book for this season of human history, for "such a time as this." David McQueen, Senior Pastor Beltway Park Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas