Put Your Big Girl Panties On And Deal With It

"Roz Van Meter offers solid advice on how to face life as a grown-up based upon her years of experience as a life coach... Simply put, Roz is warm, wise, and the girlfriend you have always wanted."—Reader Review With this insightful, touching, and often hilarious guide, Roz takes you from Training Pants straight through to Big Girl Panties, with plenty of laughs and lots of valuable advice along the way. This book will help you embrace self-care but also give you the tough love you need to escape your self-defeating patterns. Figure out how to tackle your problems like an adult, while protecting and cherishing your inner Little Girl. Rife with deeply personal, perhaps slightly embarrassing and often hysterical personal stories from the author herself, Put Your Big Girl Panties On and Deal With It is the guidebook for real women ready to take charge of their own lives.

A rollicking and poignant romantic comedy about a young widow who decides to get in shape...and winds up getting her groove back—and a whole lot more! Holly Brennan used food to comfort herself through her husband’s illness and death. Now she’s alone at age thirty-two. And she weighs more than she ever has. When fate throws her in the path of Logan Montgomery, personal trainer to pro athletes, and he offers to train her, Holly concludes it must be a sign. Much as she dreads the thought of working out, Holly knows she needs to put on her big girl panties and see if she can sweat out some of her grief. Soon, the easy intimacy and playful banter of their training sessions lead Logan and Holly to most intense and steamy workouts. But can Holly and Logan go the distance as a couple now that she’s met her goals—and other men are noticing?

Big Girl Panties! features a light, positive approach to motivate toddlers to become toilet trained. What could be more rewarding for a little girl than wearing big girl panties, just like mommy? Adult caregivers and toddlers alike will love the snappy, rhyming text and colorful, hip illustrations. Valeria Petrone's stylized artwork ensures that this commercial yet heartwarming book will have a special place on little girls' favorite bookshelves. Soon they'll all be saying, "Bye, bye diapers!"

Count and share with…underwear! Come along on a zany adventure with this Classic Board Book edition of One Big Pair of Underwear from New York Times bestselling illustrator Tom Lichtenheld! What’s one thing that two bears, three yaks, four goats, and six cats have in common? They hate to share. But look out—here comes a pack of twenty pigs ready to prove that sharing makes everything twice as fun! This seriously silly Classic Board Book with artwork by the New York Times bestselling illustrator of Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site irresistibly combines the concepts of counting and sharing.

Hold on to your panties and bra as you read interesting, and incredibly funny, and outrageous true life adventures. Emily will have you LAUGHING OUT LOUD as you are inspired by her whimsical wit and wisdom. Could this published author be Dave Barrys bad ass aunt or Celia Rivenbarks cousin or Joan Rivers younger sister? In each capsulizing chapter read about- Fun with Underwear, Septic Tanks, and Funerals... Fun with Wild, Wacky Wonderful Women... Fun with Dr.Up Yours, Dr. 4 Eyes, and Dr. Spread Yours... Fun with Dieting, Dating, and Dog show... Fun with Sex, Show Biz, and Shoes... Fun with Chelsea Handler and Ernest Hemingway... Fun with Recipes and Smoke Alarms... Fun in Small Towns Here and Abroad... Fun being bad at Bridge and a lot more stuff as she entertains you...

People-pleasing is an addiction. It's time to woman up and take those people-pleasing panties off! In this funny self-help memoir of Theresa Tirk, Uncensored takes you on the journey of her people-pleasing, family dysfunction and addiction, depression and anxiety that led to suicidal thoughts, into her healing and finding her spiritual self. When you put the wants and needs of everyone around you above your own basic needs, you my friend, are a people-pleaser. This can become an addiction and a method of survival. Showering you with her sometimes dark and sarcastic humor, her struggles will yield the way to healing your own inner child, overcome generational trauma, set boundaries and create rituals to build your self-confidence and love your f*cking self and your life. A rocky ride childhood of drugs and alcohol, teen years of desperation seeking love and safety, longing for a family filled with love and safety, creating a beautiful family and not knowing how to embrace it, she transforms her life to learning to set boundaries, dipping her toe into a pool of healing and then diving in head first and emerging a queen with a voice and a mission. It's real. It's raw. It's vulnerable. It's truth, sprinkled with humor, sassiness, lots of swearing, with complete honesty and filled with love and healing. This is a guide to help you work through some of the bullshit in your life. Included are journaling prompts and worksheets to help you begin your own journey of self-discovery and healing so you can step into your big girl panties. Topics that we cover: People-Pleasing Breaking Points Mental Health Family Dysfunction Addiction & Alcoholism Limiting Beliefs Setting Boundaries Breaking Negative Patterns Generational Trauma Dealing With Expectations Martyrdom Creating Rituals

Marginalized Voices in Music Education explores the American culture of music teachers by looking at marginalization and privilege in music education as a means to critique prevailing assumptions and paradigms. In fifteen contributed essays, authors set out to expand notions of who we believe we are as music educators -- and who we want to become. This book is a collection of perspectives by some of the leading and emerging thinkers in the profession, and identifies cases of individuals or groups who had experienced marginalization. It shares the diverse stories in a struggle for inclusion, with the goal to begin or expand conversation in undergraduate and graduate courses in music teacher education. Through the telling of these stores, authors hope to recast music education as fertile ground for transformation, experimentation and renewal.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN ALL-ENCOMPASSING GUIDE THAT PARENTS WILL WANT FOR THEIR TEENS This thorough, concise guide offers straight talk about: • The male and female body as it changes and matures. • Teen relationships: what it takes to create happy, supportive, positive, and meaningful connections with family, friends, and others. • Identity empowerment: how to be authentic and thrive in today’s world. • Sex and sexuality for boys and girls: how teens should take care of their bodies, embrace their experiences, and strengthen self-esteem. • Strategies for working through the toughest challenges, including bullying, sexual abuse, eating disorders, pregnancy, and more. Praise for Being a Teen “A frank and candid resource for adolescents.”—People “Fonda’s warmth and love for the teen community is evident.”—Publishers Weekly “Clear, practical, and riveting, Being a Teen cuts away at myth, enhances teens’ self-esteem, and arms them with a trove of useful information. Beautifully organized . . . Any parent, teacher, coach, or doctor needs to read this authoritative guide. What a lifesaver for our boys and girls!”—William S. Pollack, PhD, author of the international bestseller Real Boys and Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School “Being a Teen should be in the hands of every teen in the world. It is a myth-busting, fact-filled treasure full of life information all teens want and need to know.”—Christiane Northrup, M.D., New York Times bestselling author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom “Clear, unflinching, and nonjudgmental . . . a reliable guide to the turbulent physical and social transitions of adolescence.”—Michael Kimmel, Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Stony Brook University, and author of Guyland “A comprehensive, honest, fun-to-read book for today’s teenagers. This delightful book will be used again and again.”—The Reverend Debra W. Haffner, president, Religious Institute, and author of From Diapers to Dating “Detailed, accurate and practical . . . an excellent resource.”—Paul Kivel, author of Boys Will Be Men

"Put Your Big Girl Panties On - So You Can Get Over It!" is the empowering guide that every modern woman needs. Filled with inspiring stories and practical strategies, this book is designed to help you overcome life's obstacles and challenges. Whether you're facing personal or professional hurdles, the wisdom within these pages will teach you to pull up your big girl panties and take control of your destiny. Learn to navigate relationships, build resilience, boost your confidence, and live your best life with this must-have guide. Tap into your inner strength, embrace positivity, and get over it with "Put Your Big Girl Panties On!" Ideal for those in need of motivation and anyone striving to reach their fullest potential.

From the chaos of war men are changed. Fears are lost and traded for new ones. For some the stress of life and death cause men to act out and strive for the control they no longer have. For two men, Thomas Stringer and James Carter, they decided to handle war time problems on their own terms. They headed up a group of A.W.O.L. Army soldiers dubbed "bummers". The uncontrolled fury and bedlam they unleashed upon a certain innocent plantation owner would haunt their family for a century. A hundred years later, when fate brought the two grandsons of Thomas Stringer and James Carter together in Madison, Georgia, the sins from a century earlier will be paid for. Edward Stringer and Alex Carter discover the truth behind the atrocities of their ancestor's actions and how to make amends for those actions. Unfortunately for the two men there are sins to be paid for that they never knew about. Both men find out the hard way that the ghosts of the tortured and murdered never forget or forgive.