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    excerpt from   I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them  by Franki Bagdade  Right Size Your Expectations!  One day, you open your eyes and realize you’ve been sleeping on a regular basis, as if you’re a real human being! Most nights, those evolving little humans you created now fall asleep without any complicated strategy and they wake up feeling refreshed. You no longer keep a running tab of how many hours in a row you actually slept or even how many nights your children didn’t wake you up at three a.m. to eat a peach or discuss their favorite cartoon. Free of these chronic disturbances, you and your spouse don’t argue about who has woken up more before dawn (spoiler alert, I won that fight), and that realization is life changing. If you’re not there yet, you will be one day, I promise. It happens to the weariest of us.  With the renewed confidence this sleep will bring, not to mention what it can do for your health, you may start ...

  Franki Bagdade, author of  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them ,  asks if you are still looking for the perfect gift for your kids? Check out the suggestions at her blog . Awards IAN Book of the Year Literary Titan Gold Award For more posts about Franki and her book, click  HERE . Sign up for the MSI Press LLC newsletter Follow MSI Press on  Twitter ,  Face Book , and  Instagram .   Interested in publishing with MSI Press LLC? Check out information on  how to submit a proposal . Planning on self-publishing and don't know where to start? Our  author au pair  services will mentor you through the process. Interested in receiving a free copy of this or any MSI Press LLC book  in exchange for  reviewing  a current or forthcoming MSI Press LLC book? Contact editor@msipress.com. Want an  author-signed copy  of this book? Purchase the book at 25% discount (use coupon code FF25) and concurrently send a wri...

What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them   by Franki Bagdade.  Amazon review by JL - Wonderful book with great parenting tips I couldn’t put the book down once I started. It was a quick and easy read with great stories and parenting tips. Whether you have a challenging child or not (who am I kidding, there are challenging moments with all kids), I highly recommend this book. Awards IAN Book of the Year Literary Titan Gold Award For more posts about F...

  What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them   by Franki Bagdade.  Amazon review by SJ Nawrocki - If you have a kid that's Extra... This book is written like Franki is taking with you! All of the advice is real life experience & definitely relatable on so many levels! Finally, a “parenting” book that makes sense & really understands what it’s like to have a kid who can be Extra!!! Awards IAN Book of the Year Literary Titan Gold Award For m...

  \ What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them   by Franki Bagdade.  Amazon review by CB - Great advice, with a sense of humor and humility! This book should be sent home with new parents from the maternity ward! I think my grandparent friends would appreciate it as well. Just received my copy and started reading. Great anecdotes and advice from an experienced educator and parent, written with a sense of humor and humility. Awards IAN Book of the ...

  \ What is a book jewel? A sometimes-overlooked book with remarkable insight and potential significance. Starting in August, we will share near-daily, as possible, reviews of the monthly book jewel - short, succinct reviews that can be read in 1-2 minutes with links to the reviewer by reviewers whose words are worthy of being heard and whose opinions are worthy of being considered. Sometimes a couple of minutes contains more impressive thought than ten times that many. We will let you decide that. This month's book jewel is  I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them   by Franki Bagdade.  Amazon review by RE - You will laugh out loud!     I am a mom of 3 and an educator. Franki perfectly blends her personal experiences with well-researched advice and strategies to effectively deal with challenging behaviors. Her sense of humor is one of a kind! I already started "letting things go" and being more flexible at home and at school. I highly recommend reading...

  excerpt from I Love My Kids, But I Don't Always Like Them by Franki Bagdade Introduction              T he sound of your newborn baby crying for the first-time echoes in your brain forever. During the many months leading up to the birth, you dreamt of who that boy or girl would be, what they would look like and how it would feel when they became part of your family. Then suddenly, in a one moment frozen in time, that vision became real and alive, in the form of a helpless smush of a baby . “I got this.” I was confident, and maybe even a little bit obnoxious, as a second-time mom. My almost two-year-old was on a tight sleep schedule, slept through the night consistently and was a pleasure. I told anyone who would listen, quite smugly I might add, that my first child gladly played by herself, while I happily scrolled through this new phenomenon called Facebook , answered emails, talked on the phone and read books. In fact, I often felt guilty c...