Most parents hear about the 3 day potty training method and picture a single miracle weekend. You block off Friday through Sunday, your toddler runs around without pants, and by Monday they are wearing big kid underwear and waving goodbye to diapers forever. There is real value in that promise, and the intensive 3 day approach can absolutely work. But the version shared online is often incomplete. It sells the weekend and stays quiet about week 2, week 3, and the very normal moments when y...

Most people who dream of fresh eggs in the backyard start with chickens. It is the obvious choice. Chickens are the default, the well documented option, the animal every how to blog seems to cover. This book makes the case for the better choice and shows you how to keep it happy in a suburban yard. Ducks lay bigger, richer eggs and they keep laying when hens slack off. They eat slugs, snails, and grubs that chickens mostly ignore. They are sturdier, less prone to the parasites that plague ...

The perfect story for families dealing with tricky tummy troubles and poo problems, using playful storytelling to help children build healthy habits with food and keep things moving happily along.Can the Belly Bugs shift the biggest poo in picture-book history?Billie Pickle has a secret world inside her tummy, where a gang of Belly Bugs work to keep her healthy and happy. But trouble is brewing in Rumbledom...When a monster poo refuses to budge, Bas...

Description ‘Daniel’s Uncle’ is a Middle Grade children’s book that adults will also enjoy, is the story of a thirteen-year-old boy whose parents are tragically killed in a skiing accident. He ends up spending his summer holidays at an uncle’s in Scotland on the banks of Loch Ness. His uncle is a bit eccentric but extremely clever and Daniel slowly begins to enjoy his time there. He discovers more and more out about his uncle and thus a mad adventure begins where he finds a lost City, a ni...

Martin Smith—one of the leading voices in the modern worship movement—shares his story, his insight, and his challenge to change the world.For seventeen years, Smith held the microphone for Delirious?—the mega-selling, Dove Award-winning, Grammy-nominated band that helped bring the modern worship movement into existence. Here Martin reflects on everything from the craft of leading worship to the challenges of parenthood to how to find a place of compassion within a...

Agent Dana Cole had spent her life striving for justice. As a dedicated member of the FBI, she believed in the law's power to uphold order, to protect the innocent, and to bring down those who preyed upon the vulnerable. With her steely resolve and unyielding ethics, she had earned a reputation as one of the bureau’s most promising agents. In her mind, there was no room for compromise, no place for shades of gray—only a world painted in black and white, where she stood firmly on the side o...

This exciting, colourful story of how Cosmo and Friends Save Planet Earth will entertain young readers, telling of their adventures in the cosmos as they leave Planet Zen and embark on a journey to planet Earth to educate humans on how to save their beautiful planet and protect the environment. Read how Cosmo, Adam the Alien and Rob the Robot meet a little boy, Tommy, and how they teach him about cleaning up the atmosphere and how to maintain it. Cosmo is based on a real car, Cosmotron, wh...

One morning Joel and Zoe wake up to find a tree has appeared in the middle of their garden overnight. Then it gets even stranger… the tree can talk! The young siblings are carried away into the world of the stories the tree tells them, including some featuring Jesus and his friends.Never knowing quite where they’re going or whom they’ll meet next, each tour is full of surprises!______________________________About the AuthorMartin Smith s...

The citizens of Auburn, Indiana ensure that their city is truly special among the 22 Auburns in the United States. From the time of foraging hogs and cows roaming its streets to nude swimming at the YMCA pool, the landscape of this small town is ever changing and often surprising. Auburn's past is full of many exceptional instances of residents fighting against injustice, including hosting stops along the Underground Railroad and raising Company K of the 44th Indiana Volunteer Infantry to ...

A biological anthropologist uses the human skeleton to examine the history of violence from the Mesolithic era to the nineteenth century.Human beings have a violent past. Physical hostilities between people are at least as old as humanity and the roots of such behaviour go very deep. Earlier studies have been based on a range of sources including written documents, as well as archaeological evidence in the form of weapons, armour and defences. However, each of these...

The fleeting scenes of Robison Park, Cathedral Square, and Fort Wayne's many parks have often been captured in postcards sent or collected by Allen County's residents and visitors. Captured here in over 200 vintage postcards and images is the history of Allen County, chosen by local merchants, depicting the thriving downtown areas, booming industries, and quiet, pleasant residential sections.Allen County provides a visual 40-year history of Allen County. This vast collection provides a wid...

The fleeting scenes of the train depot in Ashley, the Auburn Hotel in Auburn, and the Thompson Opera House in Butler were captured on postcards sent or collected by DeKalb County's residents and visitors. Showcased here on over 200 vintage postcards and images is the history of DeKalb County.Offering a unique visual history of the area through preserved one-cent postcards, this book portrays the socials, events, buildings, homes, and residents of a by-gone era from the towns of DeKalb Coun...