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In this story of perseverance in the face of adversity, Regina Calcaterra recounts her childhood in foster care and on the streets and how she and her savvy crew of homeless siblings managed to survive years of homelessness, abandonment, and abuse. Regina Calcaterra's emotionally powerful memoir reveals how she endured a series of foster homes and intermittent homelessness in the shadow of the Hamptons, and how she rose above her past while fighting to keep her brother and three sisters together.

Elky the Jewish Elf is an epic adventure story about sibling rivalry transforming into true brotherhood. Elky is dying of Progeria, a rare and incurable disease. It causes him to look like an elf. His brother, Michael, feels sibling rivalry due to the attention his dying brother receives. He knows it's wrong. Still, he doesn't know how to reconcile the onslaught of his confusing feelings. His solution arrives when a street performer offers Michael a chance to bring Elky back where he belongs, with Santa in the North Pole. And off they go.

This audiobook is written for parents of children from infancy up to the age of 18. The advice will assist you in correcting behavioral problems in difficult-to-manage children and also guide the rest of us parents in protecting our young people from those who would victimize them. It tells of how to work the system and get your child the help they need. It covers topics such as Social Services and how to use the system to your advantage.

Helping a child accept that there will be a new baby in the house can be difficult. Not an Egg is a view of the feelings an older child can experience when a family is expecting a new child. For a child who is used to getting all the attention, this can create feelings of being left out or competing with the new baby. Not an Egg allows your child to explore these feelings through the eyes of a little dragon and a new egg.

When brothers are united they are a force to be reckoned with. Brothers united can achieve great things together. But with that potential for greatness also rests the potential for disaster. Animosity between brothers can be toxic, and bring down an entire family for generations.

Autism shakes up your world. It has changed my life and I wasn't even the one diagnosed with it. My brother's name is Ethan Wolfgang, but we call him Deets. He is one of the greatest gifts my family has ever received. And one of the most challenging.

Jeff Resnick faces a new dilemma: someone is stalking his sister-in-law, Brenda, who fears that violence from pro-life supporters will escalate near the women’s clinic where she works. Or could the vandalism, threatening phone calls, and letters against her have come from her abusive ex-husband? Meanwhile, Jeff grapples with meeting his estranged father and the sister he never knew existed. Could Patty Resnick be the key to Brenda’s stalker?

The Close sisters are descended from very prominent and wealthy ancestors. When the Close sisters were very young, their parents joined a cult called the MRA, or Moral Rearmament. The family was suddenly uprooted to a cult school in Switzerland and, ultimately, to the Belgian Congo where their father became a surgeon in the war-ravaged republic, and ultimately the personal physician to President Mobutu.

How far would you go for someone you love...on a unicycle? Brothers and sisters often dare each other to do things – it's what siblings do. However, when Connie Johnson dared her brother, Samuel, to embark on a one-wheeled odyssey around Australia, she knew it was a big ask. But Connie knew exactly what she was doing and was sure he wouldn't say no. Not this time. Born a year apart, Connie and Samuel Johnson have always been close.

Verwöhnt, verzogen, sozial gestört. Einzelkinder haben ein schlechtes Image. Was ist anders, wenn Kinder keine Geschwister haben? In Deutschland wächst jedes dritte Kind ohne Bruder oder Schwester auf. Die Liebe der Eltern, die Fürsorge und Aufmerksamkeit in der Familie müssen Einzelkinder nicht teilen. Ist das ein Vorteil? Wie lernen Kinder Rücksicht, Empathie oder Kompromissbereitschaft? Braucht man dazu Geschwister?

Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to family peace and tranquility with humor and compassion for both parents and children. Action oriented and easy to understand, it's packed with sensitive yet sensible ways to turn quarreling siblings and frustrated parents into an open, communicative family.

This guide is written as a quick reference to provide the listener with methods of detachment, setting boundaries, and letting go with the substance abuser in your life. Applying the ideas within will certainly help you experience more peace in your life and bring about less tension between you and the addict.

Popular parenting expert Dr. Laura Markham, author of Peaceful Parents, Happy Siblings, has garnered a large and loyal readership around the world thanks to her simple, insightful approach that values the emotional bond between parent and child. As any parent of more than one child knows, though, it's challenging for even the most engaged parent to maintain harmony and a strong connection when competition, tempers, and irritation run high.

A little girl finds out her mummy is growing a baby. The story leads you through the excitement, emotion, and joy of preparing for - and greeting - a new baby in the family, with references to breastfeeding, baby-wearing, cosleeping, and more.

Kids are always up to something when the adults are busy and can't watch them, especially the little ones - that's where the older siblings come in! Watch as Michael tries his best to make sure his little brother, Cameron, is happy and busy while their daddy cuts the grass! What type of activities do you believe Michael will think of? Will they be enough to keep his little brother happy?

Brothers Barry and Tommy Moser were born of the same parents in Chattanooga, Tennessee, slept in the same bedroom, went to the same school, and were both poisoned by their family's deep racism and anti-Semitism. But as they grew older, their perspectives and their paths grew further and further apart. Barry left Chattanooga for New England and a life in the arts; Tommy stayed put and became a mortgage banker.

Jeff Resnick hardly knew his well-heeled half-brother. But after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious mugging, he reluctantly accepts the fact that he has a long and brutal recovery to face - and his closest of kin can provide him with the time and place to do it. Now, Jeff is haunted by unexplained visions of a heinous crime - a banker, stalked, killed, and eviscerated like a 10-point buck. When Matt Sumner's murder is discovered, a still-recovering Jeff realizes this was what he had seen. Jeff must not only convince himself of his new-found psychic ability, but also his skeptical brother, Richard Alpert.

It's the first day of snow, and Gabi and her siblings are about to get creative. They have the most brilliant idea: they will build the best snow-woman ever! This book will not only empower your child by sending the message that children can trust their own thinking and ideas, and implement them all by themselves, but will also emphasize the importance of team work.

In 1930, 25-year-old Violet travels with her 16-year-old sister Lily from Scranton, Pennsylvania, to the Good Shepherd Infant Asylum in Philadelphia, so Lily can deliver her illegitimate child in secret. In doing so, Violet jeopardizes her engagement to her longtime sweetheart, Stanley Adamski. Meanwhile, Mother Mary Joseph, who runs the Good Shepherd, has no idea the asylum's physician, Dr. Peters, is involved in eugenics and experimenting on the girls with various sterilization techniques.

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother, Matty, was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, two weeks before receiving his GCSE results. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many fates worse than death.