Your parents should be proud!!
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Wow,what great stories you two have put together!  Ethan, I really enjoyed your short story regarding Hurricane Sandy.  Mason, I especially liked when you wrote "brave like a police officer." All of your stories were so descriptive that I could picture exactly what your characters were seeing and feeling. Great work!
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A beautiful story that many of us can relate with our own experience growing up or our challenge as a parent.  I, now a grandmother, can still remember my school days at Azure's age.  I had a classmate just like Valerie - popular because she was pretty, smart and rich.  She and other classmates, even some teachers, liked teasing me because I was short and chubby.  I could have lost my self-confidence if not because of my loving parents guiding me with their own positive self-images.  This book is definitely suitable for school age girls, parents and teachers.  What's more - the illustrations are awesome!!
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New parents have no idea what they are in for ...
If you are a parent, you know what I mean and you should get this book for all of your friends who are expecting.

Slip it in with your other gift ... tell the parents to read it BEFORE ... so that they have a clue what they have signed up for.  Ms. Scott's witty remarks hit home after you know what she is referring to.  Experienced parents will laugh, since she manages to put down all those things that you wish you could share with others about the parenting process,
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This book is so encouraging!  I am so frustrated with parents that believe that their children need to be involved in everything.  The book is packed full of research that shows just the opposite.  Children need to play and they learn best through play.  It is so important that we spend quality time with our children and the authors reinforce this throughout the book.  This book educates parents with the ways to go about helping our children and debunking the myths and lies such as purchasing certain products like flashcards, classical music at an early age, and certain toys make our children smarter.
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For this price! I am highly recommended all newly parents to purchase them! I had the item for almost 2 months now! It get the job done for us all the time! ( stop my son from crying mode) it's magical toy or tool whatever that you would like to call it. Trust me on this, it's worth every penny to pay for this! Thanks for reading n hope your kid enjoy it as well
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I have heard from several parents praising this book.  It is a real eye-opener.
Any parent truly desiring to train up their child to appreciate and join in worship, should read this and pass it on.
It is NOT a book of easy steps...you will know exactly what it will cost you in terms of time, patience, and annoyed looks from others.
Church leaders should all be given a copy of this, too!
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This is an excellent book with a very relevant message for parents. A child cannot be too young to benefit from learning how to be a part of the family and not the center focus. Entitlement creeps in slowly and becomes a part of the household "culture" if left unchecked. I am sure there are parents with grown children who would have benefited from this message. Entitlement is like "nut grass" in the garden. The sooner we rid ourselves of it, the less painful it is and the easier to control going forward . Cleaning House proves that it can be done and done well. A 12-month experiment is a solid test...this is no flash in the pan type of experiment. Thus, the results are extremely worth noting and following.

I highly recommend this book to parents and grandparents.
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This is a great book for any parent, whether you think you have anger issued or not! Every parent gets angry at times with there kids, this book has Biblical perspective on the appropriate ways parents can express themselves to their kids, while ministering and disciplining their children to grow into men and women of God. Great for parents with kids of all ages!
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Great way to display our pride for our college students school!
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Dad's are pretty awesome. Momma bears often steal the show but there is something special about dads and the love they give to their kiddos.

Before reading the quote the first thing my husband is going to love about this is the colors. He is going to automatically think it's Seattle Seahawks and love it.
It's hard for dads of daughters to feel manly or have any time to themselves that isn't surrounded by bows, or glitter or some toy! So when they get to enjoy a cup of coffee even if it has a splash of something stronger ;) then it's nice that they get to read something encouraging to get them through a crazy thing called being a parent!!

The packaging was pretty standard. However it was in a bubble wrapped envelope and packaged well so while it wasn't in a nice box it won't be broken or damaged in anyway.

This is a nice quality mug. It's not cheap and light weight, which again is perfect for dads because it's likely little hands will touch it and wack it around a time or two.

Dishwasher safe is my favorite word! So I cannot be happier! This will be a great addition to our coffee mugs and will be a great Father's Day gift.
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This picture is absolutely stunning.  I had it framed for my parents for Christmas and they loved it!!!  It will be a family treasure for many years to come!!!
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If you have parents you need this book! All of us are faced with tough decisions as our parents age. We want to do what's best for them, but do we know what that is? If you think you have the answers think again... and pick up this book. Times have changed; people are living longer.  Everyone is busy.  The questions just get harder. G. Scott Middleton's book,  Parent Talk,  will have those of us who vowed we'd never put mom in a "home" rethinking that decision. You will be confronted with the fact that our ability to care for the growing needs of our aging parents at home is diminishing. But there's also some surprising good news.  Today's "homes" are more like Marriots  than the dingy places of yesteryear ...and mom may have more fun there, than home with us! Wow! If you're worried about your parents, get this book and read it.  Give it to your siblings and equip yourselves to make educated (not emotional ) choices for the folks that once took care of you.
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Backed up with impressive research, data, and personal interviews (if you are reading this on a Kindle, the book ends about 80% to leave room for the footnotes and bibliography), Lythcott-Haims claims we are doing our kids no favors by masterminding their future; in fact, we are doing just the opposite. Overparenting, or Helicopter parenting, was something many parents could wear as a badge of honor  proving to themselves and their community that they were great parents by getting their kids into the best grammar and high schools, shuttling the kids to various activities (ones that will look good on college transcripts) and telling them from a young age what they will be when they grow up and where they will go to school (a doctor, at Yale of course). The book is compelling and impressive, as the author takes you through her own realization that she was overparenting her own kids. Most parenting books have left me feeling like I have to do more, while this book not only gave me the license to want to do less, I felt good about it. The book centers on what we already know deep down about parenting, but we allow the arms race, as the author puts it, to make us feel we have to do more for our kids or else they won't be able to compete with their peers. Lythcott-Haims gives valuable advice on how to deal with the community and your own family while adopting this approach to parenting, because in some communities you will certainly be faced with judgment.  One of the best compliments I can give is that I have actually already changed since reading this book. Since Im the first one in my extended family to graduate from college, I really wanted to provide my son with more opportunities. I had to work so hard, do so much for myself, and live on very little money and work hard while going to college. I thought this was awful and wanted my own son to just be able to focus on school. I never fully realized that these struggles have made me into the person I am today happy and successful with my career.  Since reading this book, I have coached my son through making many of his own simple meals (fixing a bowl of cereal has a surprising number of steps), not reacting one way or another when he tells me how he did on a test, and making sure he understands I like my own job and what I had to do to get there. In general, I feel a decrease in anxiety and a renewed hope that everything will work out when you let your kids have some freedom and independence to contemplate who they are and explore the world. There is much evidence to prove to us that there are many paths to success and success should be defined as following your passion and being supported as you do that by your parents.  My only criticism is that this book probably only applies to certain communities where this kind of parenting is abundant. Im not so sure that overparenting is a problem all over America- in fact, in many areas where money is tight and there are stressed-out single parents, Ill bet they wish they had more time and resources to overparent. I don't think she mentioned that once, that overparenting is a privilege many people don't have. But that aside, I think this book speaks to many parents and can be a useful tool to help kids rise to their potential  while also allowing the parent to pursue their own dreams.
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We've bought 2 of these for our parents to fill out. They absolutely loved the idea. And, it will be a very nice gift from them back to our daughter in the future. Love it.
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This has been the best ever gift for my older parents.  We can all now email them photos all the time, and they take great joy in seeing the photos appear.  It's one piece of technology that has caused them very little trouble (we had to set it up for them) and makes them smile daily. Actually, that said, we're getting one for ourselves, now, too.
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I wish my parents had read this! It doesn't have to be difficult or expensive to provide your children with the resources to become more successful.
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Happy with my purchase! First time to use it when my parents visited me the other day and they both loved it