Growing up is a challenging, exciting, and satisfying journey. This book takes you through that journey, giving you the tools you need to navigate it successfully. It shows you how responsibility, chosen carefully and taken on willingly, brings freedom and fulfilment. It gives models for growing up in the twenty-first century.

"I lived through World War II in Germany with the attitude of a child. The women in our household protected me and 'the front,' where all the men had gone far away for a time," says Shanti Elke Bannwart. "I had no comparison and was not familiar with a life without war. The surrounding events of total destruction seemed like a normal backdrop to my childhood. The men had gathered somewhere in the mysterious place where the war happened." Bannwart's memoir, Dancing On One Foot, Growing Up In Nazi Germany, just published by Sunstone Press, confronts a major issue-World War II observed during the author's childhood in Nazi Germany. It explores the psychological imprint of that experience and the healing in later years after the author settles in the High Desert of the American Southwest. The book is also a tribute to the ability of women and children to survive hardships and celebrate life in all its straight and crooked ways-to dance, even if there's only one foot left to stand on. Here is the account of a woman's lifelong journey to understand what she came to face about war and her native country's part in a great crime. She is driven by a deep urge to lift the veil around the dark mystery of human violence. Yet, an undercurrent of vibrant joy runs inside her and through this book. It infuses all the layers of her memory, as if her wounding and the darkness of her story have fertilized her love of life.

Growing Up with PlayStation: The Transition from PlayStation to Adulthood is a reflective and practical guide on managing life’s inevitable transitions. Using the nostalgia of growing up with PlayStation as a backdrop, the book explores the journey from childhood to adulthood, offering valuable insights on coping with change, adapting to new roles, and embracing growth. Beginning with vivid memories of childhood gaming, the book contrasts these simple joys with the complex realities of adult life, highlighting the emotional and psychological challenges that come with growing up. Through personal stories and relatable anecdotes, it examines the fear of the unknown, the pressure to succeed, and the sense of loss as we leave behind familiar comforts. The book goes beyond reminiscing, providing practical advice for navigating life’s transitions with confidence. It shares change management tips, helping readers maintain a positive outlook, set realistic goals, and seek support from loved ones during times of uncertainty. Readers are encouraged to view change not as something to fear, but as a chance for personal development and self-discovery. Drawing parallels between the evolution of PlayStation consoles and the shifts we experience in life, Growing Up with PlayStation reminds us how past experiences shape who we are today. It encourages readers to cherish their memories while looking to the future with optimism, showing that the challenges of growing up are a natural part of life’s journey. Whether you’re reflecting on your own childhood or grappling with the complexities of adulthood, this book provides comfort, wisdom, and a fresh perspective on how to embrace life’s changes with resilience and hope.

Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of other things—and the book’s surprise success established him as one of America’s most unusual and trenchant critics, combining vast learning, an astute mind, utopian sympathies, and a wonderfully hands-on way with words. For Goodman, the unhappiness of young people was a concentrated form of the unhappiness of American society as a whole, run by corporations that provide employment (if and when they do) but not the kind of meaningful work that engages body and soul. Goodman saw the young as the first casualties of a humanly re­pressive social and economic system and, as such, the front line of potential resistance. Noam Chomsky has said, “Paul Goodman’s impact is all about us,” and certainly it can be felt in the powerful localism of today’s renascent left. A classic of anarchist thought, Growing Up Absurd not only offers a penetrating indictment of the human costs of corporate capitalism but points the way forward. It is a tale of yesterday’s youth that speaks directly to our common future.

Why is it that no matter how old someone is, they always feel much younger inside? Is there a part of us that never grows up? Have you ever had the urge to play the games you used to when you were a child just for the fun of it? What stops you from releasing your inner child? Growing Up Is Optional seeks to help bring back those childhood memories of games played and fun had in a spontaneous and joyful way. You can rediscover the joy of play and all the benefits this will bring: Learn. Create. Feel challenged. Relax. Calm and focus yourself. Improve your health and fitness. Build and improve relationships. Laugh and have fun. Play is essential to leading a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life, and you can benefit from it! Growing Up Is Optional sets out ideas and prompts for fun games and activities that are either low-cost or free and can be done by anyone, anywhere. When did it become more important to stay longer at the office, clean the house, or watch TV than to go outside and feel the sun or rain on your face? Growing up is optional and you can choose not togo on, I dare you!

Offers children ongoing initiation into a life of prayer in a variety of creative ways. It gives parents a practical tool to help them initiate conversations with their children about their faith, their problems, their values and concerns.

During the first half of this century, about fifty non-Canadian private boys' schools existed in British Columbia, virtually all of them founded on the principles of private education in Britain and intended to serve the offspring of British settlers. In this book Jean Barman explains the appeal of the British model of education, re-creates the ethos of private school life, and analyzes the effect of these schools on the social fabric of the province.

Following the first book Christmas Past to Christmas Present", it is now twenty-five years later. Liz Watsons children are now grown up, like many in their mid-twenties they believe that the world is theirs for the taking. Until one day when an unimaginable tragedy strikes, which will wreck countless lives. One of her children will not be able to face the consequences; therefore, will travel abroad in hope of purging the demons that haunts him or her daily, making it impossible to get life back on track. As each of Lizs children comes to a crossroad in his or her life, it will bring mystery, murder and corruption. The worst being a case of sexual abuse to a minor, as well as an eccentric kidnapping that will lead one to hope, but demise for another. This is a tale full of conspiracy, suspense, as well as an abiding love of family, which altogether, will leave the reader unable to put this book down. If you enjoy reading this book, you might be interested in reading Christmas Past to Christmas Present, which is the first book in this series about the Watson Family. Listings of all April Hamiltons books available books on www.AprilHamiltonbooks.com.

Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years is a sensitive volume devoted to helping older adults retain their status as meaningful members of their congregations and communities. In an honest approach, based on the foundations that old age is supposed to happen, the future belongs to the old, and vocation for people of faith is lifelong, Thomas Robb provides personal and Biblical perspectives, as well as research from over 20 years as a pastor, on the life process and the feelings, worries, and expectations accompanying growing up and growing old. He then molds these concerns into a challenge for congregations and their spiritual leaders to actively assist the aged in coping with and overcoming fears and barriers limiting the fullest expression of faith in God. This insightful book describes the tasks and suggests programs for pastors and congregations everywhere in meeting the challenge, making life for the aged more than shuffleboard and bingo, pot-luck dinners and day trips. Dimensions of pastoral ministries that nurture women and men who, at midlife and beyond, seek to find their way through the unexpected and unplanned, through the third of life following parenthood and careers, are described in detail. Pastors, church leaders, congregations, professors of courses in ministry and aging, aging church members, and seminary students will benefit immensely from the wealth of information presented in Growing Up: Pastoral Nurture for the Later Years.