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About Brette Sember
Brette Sember is a former attorney and author of more than 40 books about topics such as food (The Original Muffin Tin Cookbook and Leftover Love), parenting (Parenting Together Apart) , travel (The Gluten-Free Guide to Travel), business (the Essential Supervisor's Handbook, Bad Apples: How to Manage Difficult Employees), credit (The Complete Credit Repair Kit), health (Your Plus-Size Pregnancy and Beyond and divorce (The Complete Divorce book, The No-Fight Divorce Book, The Divorce Organizer & Planner, How to Get Custody of Your Dog). She is also co-author of several textbooks.
Sember is also a ghostwriter, indexer, book doctor, fact checker, editor, freelancer, and content provider. She has two kids and two dogs and likes to cook, travel, swim, kayak, read, play Boggle, and decorate.
Her web site is www.BretteSember.com. She blogs at http://PuttingItAllontheTable.com.
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There's an unfair stigma attached to being the parent who does not have the most parenting time. Children need two involved parents and no matter what your parenting schedule, you have a very important role in your child's life. Being an active and engaged parent is absolutely possible.
Written by a former attorney who worked in family and divorce court representing parents and children in custody cases, this is your complete road map to parenting after a divorce or separation.
Filled with supportive, straight-to-the-point advice, this title covers:
- Making the most of your time with our child
- Creating and managing parenting schedules
- Communicating clearly and calmly with the other parent
- Solving conflict when it arises
- Coping with long-distance parenting
- Making sure transitions between parents go smoothly
- Planning for holidays and special occasions, including the times you do not have your child
- What to do if your child doesn't want to spend time with you
- Understanding what your child is going through by age
- Dealing with social media
- Coping with a custodial parent who wants to control everything
- Getting through dark moments
- Solving the day-to-day problems that arise in co-parenting
- Making changes when the custody plan is not working
Thoughtful advice, practical tips, and detailed suggestions allow you to move forward and create a reasonable relationship with your ex and a happy life with your child.
Don't wait. Order your copy of Parenting Together Apart: For the Non-Residential Parent today.
Brette Sember, JD is a former divorce and family law attorney and law guardian. She is the author many other books about divorce, including the companion volume to this title, Parenting Together Apart: For the Residential Parent. Her web site is www.BretteSember.com.
This book is specifically for the residential parent (the parent who has custody or lives with the child most of the time). Filled with in the trenches advice on how to make this all work, this guide is your companion as you navigate all the ups and downs of parenting with someone you are no longer partners with.
Written by a former family attorney and child law guardian who worked extensively with families and children during and after their divorces, this book offers help with:
- Making and adjusting schedules
- Communicating effectively with your ex
- What to do when your child doesn't want to go on visitation
- Solving the day-to-day problems that arise as you parent together
- Understanding what your child is going through, with age-by-age breakdowns
- What to do when you think visitation is a bad idea
- Knowing when to go back to court
- Planning for holidays and special events
- Coping with your ex's new partners
- Adjusting to parenting alone
- Solving conflict when it arises
- Dealing with an uncooperative ex
- Making sure transitions between parents go smoothly
- Working through the dark moments
- Dealing with social media
- Establishing household rules and coordinating them between homes
- Moving forward with joy and happiness
Filled with checklists, tip lists, and practical, real world advice, Parenting Together Apart is your guidebook as you work to create an environment your child can thrive in.
Your custody case may be the most important legal battle in your life. You want to do everything you can to be sure you get the outcome you need.
How to WIN Your Custody Case walks you through the process including:
- How to find witnesses
- What to ask witnesses (if you are representing yourself)
- How to testify yourself
- How to behave in court
- How to cross-examine witnesses (If you are representing yourself)
- How to gather evidence
- How to persuade the judge
- How to help your attorney
Filled with solid tips and practical advice, this guide helps you prepare your case whether you are representing yourself or working with your lawyer. The book describes exactly what you have to do to win your case and convince the judge, including:
- The information you need to present a winning case
- How to behave in court to present the right image
- How to get the dirt on your ex you need to get an advantage
- The help you need to get through this and win
- How to decide if you need a lawyer
- What you need to prove in court
- Things to do to support your case
It is very, very hard to change custody once it has been decided. Don't let your one big chance slip away.
These practical tips will help you to improve your communication, reduce arguments, and free you from difficult parenting moments.
Co-parenting does not have to be uncomfortable and conflicted. With some simple adjustments and mindful techniques, you can redirect your co-parenting relationship and make it easier to navigate and stress-free.
Written by a former family law attorney who represented children in custody cases, this essential guide will help you navigate the difficult waters of co-parenting and find a way to communicate effectively and smoothly.
Includes:
1. Adjust Your In-Person Communication Style
2. Change Your Reactions
3. Separate Your Personal Relationship from Your Parenting Relationship
4. Change Your Ex
5. Keep Your Child Out of It
6. Keep Everyone Else Out of it as Well
7. Use Email Wisely
8. Control Texting
9. Use Calendars
10. Find Your Potholes
11. Accept That the Only True Change You Can Make Is in Yourself
12. Don’t Be a Mirror
13. Reduce Contact
14. Choose Your Child
15. Plan for the Future
This is a new edition of the very first muffin tin cookbook ever published. It's now back and available with all of your favorites.
There's nothing you can't make in a muffin tin—and we're not talking merely muffins. All you need is a muffin tin, paper liners, and this ingenious, one-of-a-kind cookbook, and you can whip up delicious dishes that are as easy to prepare and serve as they are good to eat! This is the first cookbook ever published about muffin tin cooking and now it’s available again.
From quick-serve appetizers and sides to gourmet entrees, sides, and desserts, you'll find an amazing variety of mouthwatering options for your dining pleasure, including:
· Shrimp Cakes with Cilantro Lime Dipping Sauce
· Egg Crescent Pockets
· Deep-Dish Pizza Cups
· Cornmeal-Crusted Mustard Chicken with Sweet Potato Coins
· Duchess Potatoes
· Zucchini, Corn, and Tomato Cups
· Mini Ice-Cream Cakes
You’ll also find mini-pies, muffins, cupcakes, snacks, breakfast items, and more. The best part (besides the tasty goodness!): It's fast, easy, mess-free, and provides built-in portion control. Kids will love to help you make them—like cupcakes, only better for your family!—and leftovers are as easy as popping the muffin-meal into the microwave.
It just doesn't get any better than The Original Muffin Tin Cookbook . . . your next memorable meal is just a muffin tin away!
Daycare can be a wonderful place for your child, but we all know they can also be hotbeds of germs and illness - especially during the current COVID-19 pandemic.
But daycare doesn’t have to be scary. Nor should daycare be equated with the inevitability of a sick kid.
This book offers tips for keeping your child healthy while at daycare, including input from experts.
It includes information about:
- What to look for in a daycare center's sanitizing policy
- A checklist of questions to ask about the center's cleaning policies
- The maximum number of infants a center should have
- What to look for in the center's health policy (including when children should be kept home for illness)
- Steps parents can take to prevent their children from becoming sick at daycare
Written by a health care writer who is a mom of two and the author of several books about pregnancy and parenting, this guide will help you reduce your child's chance of illness, the number of days your child is sick and thus help reduce the number of days YOU have to take off from work as well.
Don’t let celiac disease or gluten intolerance stop you from traveling!
The Gluten-Free Guide to Travel shares everything you need to know to make traveling with this dietary restriction not only possible, but enjoyable. Packed with resources for making your gluten-free trip successful, this is a book everyone who is celiac or gluten-intolerant needs.
Find out:
- How to research your destination
- Where to stay
- How to find restaurants and ensure your food is safe
- What to pack
The author is a food and travel writer and is the author of several cookbooks, as well as a blog about gluten free dining.
Details about dining on cruises, tours, trains, excursions, and overseas make this the ultimate guide to help you feel comfortable heading out to explore the gluten-free world!
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Choosing Hotels
Breakfasts
Other Hotel Meals
Planning Your Days
Advance Research on Restaurants
Advance Research on Local Food
Packing
Packing for Car Travel
Packing for Air Travel
Airport Food
Airline Food
Dining in Restaurants in the U.S.
Chains
Local Restaurants
Dining in Restaurants Abroad
Finding Food in Stores
Specialty Stores
Highway and Roadside Options
Trains
Cruises
Gluten-Free Tours
Planned Activities
Traveling with Gluten Eaters
Academic Reading: College Major and Career Applications focuses on developing essential reading skills while showing students how to adapt them to specific academic disciplines and career fields.
Kathleen McWhorter offers a unique, contextualized approach that focuses on academic reading skills and also motivates students towards a particular area of interest or field of study. Readers learn important comprehension, vocabulary, and critical thinking skills, as well as how to adapt these skills to study specific academic disciplines. While doing so, they also learn what each discipline involves and explore the available career paths. As an end result, Academic Reading teaches essential reading skills while opening up new academic and career possibilities.
This edition of Academic Reading is supported by an enhanced MyReadingLab course, which offers text-specific exercises within the Learning Path, all of which feed into the MyReadingLab Gradebook.
Do you love cookies? Who doesn't? Learn everything you never knew about everyone's favorite sweet treat.
Cookie: A Love Story is a glorious celebration of America’s favorite treat with lots of tidbits about its history, development, impact, meaning, importance, and deliciousness. Special recipes, delightful personal stories, and everything you ever wanted to know about cookies are in its pages. The book is filled with mouth-watering anecdotes and stories that will satisfy in a way no other book can.
Learn about:
- the most popular cookie
- why we crave cookies
- the woman who invented the chocolate chip cookie
- why we eat cookies at Christmas
- the story of the Oreo
- Cookie Monster
- why the White House has a gingerbread house every holiday season
- where fortune cookies came from
- Mrs. Fields
- when cookies were invented
- the first cookie cookbook
- how cookies got their name
- Famous Amos
- how cookies impact elections
- songs and movies about cookies
- where cookie cutters came from
- how gingerbread men evolved
- why Girl Scouts sell cookies and much, much more.
This full-length book filled with photos is a romp through the cookie’s past and its place in our lives today, and is a delicious sampler of the delights the cookie has given us.
Table of Contents
1. Do You Want or Need a Divorce
Reasons
Deciding
Therapy
Domestic Violence
Telling Your Spouse
Trial Separation
What Divorce Means
Effects
Costs
Divorce vs Separation
Divorce vs Annulment
Common Law Marriage
Not Wanting a Divorce
2. Legal Separation
Legal vs Non-Legal Separation
Reasons
Agreement
What a Legal Separation means
Living under a Separation Agreement
No-Fault Divorce
Undoing Separation
3. Family Court
Family Court Basics
How family Court Can Help
Family Court Vs Divorce Court
Access Family Court
Prepare Family Court Documents
Family Court Hearings
What Family Court Cannot Do
4. First Steps in Divorce
Protect Yourself and Your Children
Talk to Your Children
Tell Important People
Protect Assets
Control Spending
Marital Residence
Find an Attorney
Evaluate an Attorney
Afford an Attorney
Handle a Divorce Yourself
Type of Divorce
Begin Process
5. Divorce Court Process
How Courts Work
Approach Your Divorce Case
Grounds
Covenant Marriage
Service
Responding
Forms and Fees
Procedures
Streamlining
Behave in Court and at Trial
Trial Procedures
Name Changes
Removal of Barriers to Remarriage
6. Divorce Mediation
How Mediation Works
Decide If Mediation Can Work for You
Benefits of
Drawbacks of
Costs
Mediator Qualifications
Find a Mediator
Why You Need an Attorney
Other Professionals and Mediation
Court-Ordered Mediation
Preparing for
Moving Mediation Along
End Result
Unsuccessful Mediation
7. Trial Alternatives
Arbitration
Collaborative Law
Co-Mediation
Shuttle Mediation
Attorney-Assisted Mediation
Long-Distance Mediation
Negotiating
8. Children and Divorce
Helping Your Children
Types of Custody
How Custody Is Determined
Siblings
Supervised Visitation
Parenting Classes
Co-Parenting
Where Your Children Will Live
Create Parenting Plan
UCCJEA
Grandparent Rights
Relocation
Deal with the Other Parent
Uncooperative Parents
Help Children Cope with Parental Conflict
When You Can’t Agree
Prepare for Trial
Work with the Law Guardian
Help Kids Cope
Cooperate and Coordinate
Functioning as a Single Parent
Embryos
9. Dividing Assets and Debts
Marital Vs Separate Assets
State Laws
Prenuptial Agreements
Finding Property
Valuing Property
Divide Household and Personal Goods
Real Estate
Businesses
Social Security and Pensions
From aprons to zesters, this book provides an A-Z of simple shortcuts that will make all the difference, including:
- Shelf and storage strategies
- Five-minute kitchen feng shui
- When to clean whatwith what
- The right tools for the right tasks
- The truth about freezing food
- Meal plans that really work
- Ten foolproof, must-know recipeswith endless variations
- The good-enough stocked pantry
- Leftovers you'll really want to eat
With tips and tricks from master chefs (think Julia Child's pegboard) and real-life home chefs (think Grandma's ingenious pasta pots), this is the only kitchen/food/life organizer you need to streamline your kitchenonce and for all!
The Organized Kitchen: Because you can minimize cooking time and maximize good taste!