Elderly Parents With All Their Marbles

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).

Practical, short, funny - just the opposite of most eldercare books. But it's the one that gets read and the one that gets used! Resources, tools and guidance on everything from assessing the finances to navigating Medicare to making the best choice in where your elder lives. Full of info, short on useless extras. Great gift as well!

September 1962. School is out, the weather is perfect, and Leo Stevenson just got a new washer and dryer. For young Mil Silver and his friends, this can only mean one thing: an exciting afternoon of box-carting! "Beneath him, Mil could feel the warm, squirming bodies of the other boys; their hot breath making the inside of the box even more stuffy and unpleasant.but before he could think of an excuse to bail out, he heard Sherry yell 'Bombs away!' .within seconds, the box was cart-wheeling down the hill like a shoe kicked down a flight of steps!" Imagine stuffing five boys in a cardboard carton and rolling it down the side of a mountain! Far-fetched as it sounds, this is only one example of the crazy things kids did in an era previous to video games, DVD's and MP3 players. Life was simple and children created their own fun. But things weren't always swell. When a race with his prized puries at stake goes dangerously wrong, Mil suddenly finds he has a lot more to worry about than just losing his marbles! Principal Bratton is furious and Mil's war with Belinda is about to get ugly!

Jack Sanford and his CSI colleagues and crew are probing into a murder and mutilation of three young women. The clues that directed them to several suspects lead to a dead end.After intense investigation, they finally realize that their pervert is closer to them than they had ever suspected. They stumble upon a coincidental murder that eventually leads them to the real murderer.This turn of events will change Jack's life forever.

Ethnologia Europaea (Volume 26/1) - Journal of European Ethnology

It is 1973 in the tiny village of Simbaru in eastern Sierra Leone. Yandi and Mila are not content with village life because the extreme poverty they experience is terrible. They are determined to avoid the ancient custom of polygamy and the grueling subsistence farming. They refuse to waddle in grim poverty like their parents and ancestors before them. With no formal education, they take their fate into their own hands. They escape the village to try their luck in the rich diamond fields of Kono. Will Yandi and Mila realise their dreams, or will the new life they encounter and embrace in Kono engulf them?

The annual visit by Pedro’s grandparents coincides with his discovery of special marbles found in rocks brought home by his father from the marble mine where he works. The village of Marbleville and the mine there hold some very strange mysteries, where in the past whole families just disappeared without trace. When Pedro shows his grandmother the marbles he has been finding, she decides it is time to open some envelopes entrusted to her many years previous by the mother of the present mine owner. What she finds out leads the family on an adventure into the past.

Studies show that kids who are well-mannered are more confident and successful and have better relationships. What parent doesn't crave that for their child? In this practical book, parents, teachers, and child-care providers will discover the keys to raising well-mannered children--with results in less than six weeks. From training a two-year-old to say "please" to talking with a teenage boy about his treatment of girls, this book unfolds step-by-step techniques for teaching manners. It also shows parents how to instill in their children a true concern for others and encourages them to grab hold of every teachable moment they can to show their children something they can use the rest of their lives.