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Generation EX: Adult Children of Divorce and the Healing of our Pain
Horrible!The book was obviously written by a women who had a major axe to grind and she needs some professional therapy.I felt sorry for her as I listened to the book.She lumped all divorced people into the same category, and made insulting generalities about parents who divorce.I divorced, but I did so to protect my children from their father's abuse (that I did not know was going on).I very much resented being talked about in her book, like I was selfish for divorcing.

I threw the book away.I would have loved to have passed it on to others who had adult children of divorce who were struggling, but I honestly thought that the book would do damage, so I threw it away!

I would not recommend for anyone to read it.If your adult kids are messed up from your divorce, this book will only mess them up farther.

Great Book!
"Think about it. If you glue two pieces of wood together and then pull them apart, it is impossible to make a clean break. As children, we were the glue that bonded our parents together. When they divorced, they may have thought they made a clean break, but we are the splintered remains of their parting."

Remember the line from a popular Tom Cruise movie, "You had me at hello"? Well Jen Abbas grabbed my attention on the first page with her direct, yet friendly style. She makes no apologies for her topic, the pain it may cause to take a deep look inward, or her Biblical frame of reference.

The quote above is the framework for her thoughts. Whether your experience is one of an amicable parting or one that was very tumultuous, as children we were affected. Now, as adults, how do we process the pain, understand how it has shaped us, collect the "splintered remains" and move forward as healthy, whole people? This is the journey Jen Abbas takes us on.

Writing from her own experience and that of hundreds of other adult children of divorce, Miss Abbas presents concrete areas of dysfunction that can manifest in us as adult children of divorce. But, she doesn't leave us there. Each chapter exposes a new piece of baggage with its "effect" and the "hope" of moving forward without it. The chapters present testimonies of the ways the unhealthy piece of luggage has affected others, the components that make up the general dysfunction, and ultimately the hope we find in realizing that as adults, we can choose how we move forward.

Many books dealing with emotional trials present the issues, illustrate the struggles, offer polite advise, and still leave us feeling somehow immobilized. At the end of each chapter Jen Abbas offers practical tools to help us get unstuck and move forward -- word, reflect, challenge, read.

Word: this is a Bible verse that addresses the struggle outlined in the chapter and that gives hope and Godly counsel.

Reflect: these are a series of questions that, if taken seriously, are tools to help you dig deeper into your own situation and understand your own tendencies.

Challenge: this is an action you can take to promote your forward momentum.

Read: this is a list of other resources dealing with the chapter's topic.

If you've prayed, forgiven and tried to forget and move on but you still feel lonely in a crowd, unsure of yourself, unable to make long-term commitments, Abbas brings the good news that these are probably not character flaws but manifestations of coping behaviors learned through the trauma of your parents divorce/s, and once you understand their origin, you can begin to overcome and move on.

Even if your parents never divorced this book offers keen insights to the dynamics every family experiences and the effects those dynamics can have on each of us as adults.

Anyone who has parents can benefit from the wisdom Jen Abbas presents in this great book. I highly recommend it. (Review as it appeared in the Spring 2007 edition of Christian Family magazine.)

A gift of healing!
A poem, written when the author was 18, starts the book by describing her parents' divorce as resembling an earthquake, rumbling with rage, anger and guilt that have been festering for a long time.

This powerful poem tells you Generation Ex will be a painful ride toward much-needed healing for adult children of divorce.

The author said: When it came to love and my own adult relationships, what I wanted so desperately (love) was what I feared the most. I didn't want to repeat what my parents did.

Abbas wrote the book not to revisit "the divorce," but to give other adult children of divorce permission to admit it hurt and to give us hope so we can choose to begin to heal that hurt.

Written from the Christian perspective, the author tells the lesson God has whispered to her was that she was no longer the victim of her parents' past. She is God's precious child with a future full of promise in her relationships. And so are you! We don't always know why our God allows us to experience pain, but we can be confident that He has a plan.

This message is about deep pain that led to her healing--and by following in her guided footsteps, your healing can begin too. Some of her chapters are: Make Peace; Redefine Our Family Relationships; Find Home for Ourselves; Seek Wholeness; Learn to Trust; Anticipate Our Triggers; Create Our Own Marriage Model; and Choose to Love. The book has four appendixes of "things to do."

Armchair Interviews says: If you have felt any hurt from a parents' divorce, this book is for you. It is a gift waiting for you to open and explore, learn from and work toward healing. Her advice, resources and message are invaluable.

Wonderful!!
Jen just spoke at my church this morning.I have not read the book yet,though and intend on doing so shortly.Jen spoke about how she dealt with the pain and how her it is important for parents to understand that divorce is not a closed subject.It effects children for years and decades to come.She touched on the subject about how important it is for those children to see healthy marriage models as their own view may be broken and distorted.Jen was a wonderful speaker and her growth as a christian showed as she spoke about her parents divorce at the age of 6 and her parents remarriages.Definently recomended

heartfelt, thorough, easy to read - and impractical
I have specialized in providing professional education and therapy to divorced, courting, and re/wedded couples since 1981. I am (a) 66, (b) a stepgrandson, stepson, and ex-stepfather and stepbrother, (c) an invited Board member of the Stepfamily Association of America, (d) a contributing editor to 'Your Stepfamily Online,' and (e) the author of six personal-growth and family-relations books.

I recommend this book to readers who want to increase their surface awareness of the typical personal impacts of parental divorce in a Christian context. I do not recommend the book for readers who want to reduce the wounds from the low-nurturance childhood that usually precedes legal or psychological parental divorce.

Like most authors focusing on divorce-prevention, recovery, and (re)marriage, Jen Abbas seems unaware of the effects of four vital factors:

1) the origin and impacts of six psychological wounds from childhood (vs. divorce). Most divorced parents and childrenappear to be significantly wounded - and don't (want to) know it;

2) the origin and impacts of blocked grief in adults and kids, and how to spot and reduce it;

3) typical adults' unawareness of, and/or indifference to, (a) normal personality formation, composition, and function; (b) keys to high-nurturance families and relationships, (c) effective communication skills, and (d) healthy 3-level grief.

In my clinical experience, these factors will combine to ptrrevent most people from following heartfelt advice such as Abbas offers her readers. For example, "learn how to trust" is a legitimate suggestion - and most children of divorce will be unable to *do* that, unless they work at harmonizing the combative, reactive parts of their personality.

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Beautiful Art and Rhyming Verse
This is a story told in rhyming verse which explains the migration of woolly mammoths as they traveled from from the steppes of the arctic tundra to the northern prairies and grasslands below the glacier lines. The pictures are primarily in black and white and are stunningly designed for instant eye appeal to children. This is my daughter's favorite.

one of my son's favorite
After getting this book at the library, we feel in love with it and wanted to buy our own copy. The illustrations are beautiful and the text, simple and poetic. A great addition to our collection.

Alaziah's review
My favorite animal is the mammoth because they help people. My favorite part was when they were swimming. The book has good pictures.

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I liked this book because it has rhyming words. My favorite part of this book was when (the calves) get in the middle (of the herd of female mammoths).

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I like this book because mammoths can swim under water. My favorite part of the book was when the mammoths headed back up north again (from their migration down south). Other kids would like this book because it happened 10,000 years ago. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from SuperScience, published by Scholastic, Inc. on May 1, 2009. The length of the article is 1535 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Extreme mammals: meet some amazing animals--from the present day to prehistoric times.(life science)
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Date: May 1, 2009
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Forty-one highly-detailed accurately rendered illustrations of ancient animals include the Megistoterium, one of the largest flesh-eating mammals that ever lived; the Smilodon, largest of saber-toothed tigers; the giraffe-like Indricotherium that browsed on treetops and many more—all copyright-free. Captions.
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Elephants traces the evolution of the two living species, the African and the Asian elephant, from their earliest ancestors and discusses their physiology and behavior, including feeding habits, social interactions, reproduction, and migration. It documents their relationship with humans-not only as beasts of burden, but also as subjects of special significance in art, literature, religion, and culture.

Written by an international team of experts, Elephants covers:

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Behavior and Environment, including Elephant Communication; Ecology and Behavior; Erosion by Elephants; Intelligence and Survival; Elephant Migration
Elephants and Humans, including Elephants Used as War Machines; Elephants as Beasts of Burden; Training Elephants; Elephants in Folklore, Religion, and ArtConservation and Management, including The Asian and African Elephant
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Beautiful and informative!
Although a coffee table type book, its also one of the most informative books on the species I've come across.Many of my friends just want to browse the artwork and gorgeous photographs.Its a beautiful book! ... Read more

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Follows a prehistoric cave bear through her day as she emerges from hibernation and introduces her new cub to the wonders and dangers of their savage world. ... Read more

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Discusses the physical characteristics and possible behavior of a variety of prehistoric mammals. ... Read more

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Chapters: Amblypoda, Plesiorycteropus, Purgatorius, Eomaia, Mixodectidae, Eurotamandua, Ernanodon antelios, Zalambdalestes, Planetetherium, Anagale,. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Plesiorycteropus, also known as the bibymalagasy or Malagasy aardvark, is a recently extinct eutherian mammalian genus from Madagascar. Upon its description in 1895, it was classified with the aardvark, but recent studies have found little evidence to link it to aardvarks or any other order of mammals. Therefore, it is now placed in its own order, Bibymalagasia, which may be part of Afrotheria. Two species are currently recognized, the larger P. madagascariensis and the smaller P. germainepetterae. They probably overlapped in distribution, as subfossil remains of both species have been found in the same site. Knowledge of the skeletal anatomy is limited, as only limb and partial pelvis and skull bones have been recovered to date. Plesiorycteropus was probably a digging animal that fed on insects such as termites and ants. It also shows adaptations for climbing and sitting. Estimates of its mass range from 6 to 18 kg (13 to 40 lb). Why and when it became extinct remains unknown; one bone has been radiocarbon dated to 200 BCE and forest destruction by humans may have contributed to its extinction. French naturalist Henri Filhol first described Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis in 1895 on the basis of a partial skull found at the cave of Belo. His description was vague even for 19th-century standards, but he placed the animal close to the aardvark (Orycteropus). The generic name combines Ancient Greek plesio- "near" with Orycteropus, the genus of the aardvark, and the specific name refers to Madagascar. Charles Lamberton, who had access to a larger sample for his 1946...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2426050 ... Read more

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Describes the early mammals that came to dominate the prehistoric world after the disappearance of the dinosaurs. ... Read more

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Describes the characteristics of the first mammals, their physical advantages over dinosaurs, their various species, and how their descendants came to dominate the earth. ... Read more

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The Ice Age Sabertooth kept its most formidable weapon right in its mouth—a pair of enormous curved teeth with serrated edges like steak knives, as long and as sharp as the teeth of a Tyrannosaurus rex! It was one of the fiercest cats to ever live. And because so many sabertooth cats died in the asphalt pools of what is now known as Rancho La Brea in Los Angeles, scientists know more about them than any other prehistoric cat. Ice Age Sabertooth tells the story of these ferocious predators—how they lived, hunted, and killed their prey, and what they may have looked like.

In this second book in the Ice Age Animals series, stunning illustrations by acclaimed artist Mark Hallett, full-color photographs, fascinating maps, and informative diagrams bring the fierce sabertooth cat—and the world it lived in—to life.


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A simply fascinating and compelling nonfiction book
Superbly written by Barbara Hehner, Ice Age Sabertooth is both an educational and highly entertaining picturebook for practiced young readers. It goes into amazing detail about these powerful and deadly long-toothed predators of the ice age, their habitats, their prey, the probable causes of their extinction, and their surviving feline relatives. Splendid, glorious, dramatic full-color illustrations by Mark Hallett enhance this picturebook presentation of a great and ancient member of the cat family. Ice Age Sabertooth is a simply fascinating and compelling nonfiction book certain to captivate youthful minds and imaginations! ... Read more