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Hard conversations of life between parents and their children are often had on car rides. Kids want to know about life's complexities and adults often avoid the topics, thinking they aren't ready yet. In this story, a young girl asks her mom why their skin colors don't match and a discussion of diversity unfolds. Love in Every Color was written by a mother and her adopted daughter and is based on actual in-car discussions of their transracial family dynamics.Love in Every Color is an engaging story of learning to embrace racial differences within families and can be generalized across classrooms, neighborhoods, and the world! Every child will have questions about racial diversity and as parents, it is our responsibility to lead them through these conversations, normalizing their curiosities, and welcoming their questions. The whimsical illustrations connect with the simplicity of life that children appreciate and promotes open dialogue, advancing the readers social-emotional skills. Love in Every Color should be on every child's bookshelf and in every school!

Parenting is HARD with a capital H. We live in a culture where working parents are expected to parent like they don't have a job and work like they don't have kids. This pressure is unreasonable and leads to anxiety, shame, resentment, and depression! This book will allow you to see parenting in a different light and empower you to live a more fulfilling and mindful life. Parenting takes a level of sustained energy from the parent that seems (and often is) unrealistic. The toll that this can take on the body and psyche are no joke. I will help you dive deeper than books of typical parenting tips and help you to improve your functioning as an adult. I will show you how changing your habits and building your values-based identity can elevate your parenting through leading by example. I cannot emphasize enough how much the ideas in this book have enhanced my life, my relationships, and my parenting. It is my hope that you will come away from this book with an increased sense of joy and effectiveness in your life as a working parent. Applying the strategies I shared will not be easy; change requires energy and effort that you may struggle to find at times. I tell you with full confidence though, that applying the ideas shared here may cost you time and energy on the front end but will pay dividends over the coming years of your life! This is a 174 page book with included workbook activities and journal prompts for continued self reflection.

MEET THE MONSTERS OF THE BRONX. They're beautiful, emotionally troubled, and perfectly monstrous reflections of us all. Groundbreaking cartoonist Ivan Velez brings together an assorted list of talented artists and writers to create their own terrifying and edgy love letter to the Boogieman Bronx. 176 pages in a brand new paperback brings edgy and terrifying poetry, short stories, comics and illustrations that shine a light on the terrifying parts of our urban American mythology.

For years, shy and awkward Miranda Taylor has been struggling to fit in at one of the most selective public high schools in NYC. Then in her junior year, she meets a new student, the androgynous Jaelin Kim, a confident basketball star who quickly becomes popular with the other school athletes. When the two are paired up for an assignment in AP English, Miranda's infatuation with her new classmate becomes more than just a crush. Suddenly, Miranda learns a lot about herself as she grapples with the bigotry that surrounds them both at school and with their friends and families.

Our culture has taken a dramatic turn in the last few decades from having a strong work ethic, to that of an instant-gratification society. I do not intend to blame any one industry or event for this change; rather, I believe we must recognize the issue and forge onward with a plan to change the course. Adulting Well is a self-help non-fiction book of life strategies and skills utilizing the structure of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT). In accessible language and with practical steps, I believe that anyone can apply these skills to their life and learn to delay their short-term urges and achieve their long-term goals.I wrote this book after 11 years of being a therapist and seeing a clear trend developing adult clients avoiding adult tasks. This avoidance tends to be the result of an inability for a person to cope with emotional pain and suffering. The purpose of this book is to teach people to experience pain, cope well, and persist through it all. We must learn to struggle without giving up or numbing out. We need to turn our negative emotional cycles around so that our self-fulfilling prophecy is that of being competent and confident...not of being depressed and anxious.

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Curing of meat products is dependent on the distribution of brine throughout the muscle structure. Sodium chloride is added to produce desired product characteristics and modify water holding capacity for juiciness and succulence in the finished product. The time course for brine equilibration is lengthy, and governed by the rate of diffusion into the tissues. Moderate electric field (MEF) processing has been shown to enhance diffusivity of ionic solutes in vegetable tissues. However, effects have yet to be investigated in animal tissues. Diffusion coefficients in porcine Longissiumus dorsi were determined in a diffusion cell at three frequencies (10, 50, and 100 Hz) and three electric field strengths (68, 136, and 189 V/m). Concentration profiles after five hour treatments were calculated from a linear relationship between electrical conductivity and mass percent sodium chloride. Computational modeling with Fick's second law of diffusion determined effective diffusion coefficients, Def, which ranged from 0.93x10-9 - 1.37x10-9 m2/s. No statistical differences (p>0.05) in Def were found between MEF and conventional treatments. Sensitivity to thermal denaturation limits the range of electric field strengths potentially suitable for enhanced mass transfer. Lack of cell wall and muscle cell structure have been identified as potential limitations for extension of MEF processing to meat. Mathematical description of salt and water uptake during curing may require a non-Fickian diffusion model.

The Little Queen That Could By Alexandria Houston

Poems picked from the fields of my heart.