This new and expanded edition presents a compilation of material based on real-life experiences. The descriptive style in which this text is written makes it unusually informative and enjoyable to read. This resource consists of five parts. The first part addresses the grief, anger, guilt, fear, frustration, and self-pity upon the realization that something is seriously wrong with your child. Part 2 describes the search to pinpoint the exact nature of your child's disabilities. If the source of the disorder is purely physical, the treatment and management will differ from that of a child who has brain damage or dysfunction. Part 3 focuses on setting priorities. You have the right to put yourself first, make your own decisions, change your mind, ignore the advice of others, the right to make mistakes, the right to hope, live your life one day at a time, and the right to not feel responsible for your child's disability. Part 4 embraces the positive aspects of change. The knowledge that nothing stays the same forever can be comforting or upsetting. Part 5 places emphasis on the child, interaction with society, risk taking, interdependence, and productivity. This text provides professionals and parents with the opportunity to gain insights into a family that has benefitted positively and constructively from the presence of a member with a disability.

The humorist-author of Weed 'Em and Reap pays tribute to the wonders of his home state, in an unconventional series of love letters to Nebraska and its history, culture, customs, sports, weather, farms, and more.

Product Description: There are lots of books out there about how to accurately and skillfully identify and cook wild foods, but not very many about first-rate, industrial-grade weed eating. And not many that are guaranteed to make the reader laugh -- until now...read more

Product Description: Antique tractor collecting and restoration has never been more popular—and all the newcomers need to be warned, according to old tractor guru Roger Welsch. Otherwise, they’ll end up alone with three mortgages and two ex-wives—but they will have a barn with a sparkling restored tractor...read more

Product Description: They can make a grown man coo baby talk in public and a strong woman weep like a little schoolgirl. They seldom perform any practical function in our modern, mechanized society, yet people are willing to spend more on vet bills than on their kids college tuition...read more

Product Description: Outhouses contains the history of and musings about that most fundamental of structures, the outhouse, as presented by Roger Welsh, the Will Rogers of tractors and other things farm-related. In Outhouses you will learn the best place to locate your outhouse, which will preferably be down hill and down wind from your house...read more

Product Description: Best-selling author and humorist Roger Welsch comes through again as he delivers his outrageous anecdotes from the farm fields of Nebraska. Jam-packed with Rog's creative techniques for picking up babes, buying suitable gifts for anniversaries, first dates, and more! Roger digs deep into his own down-home experiences to deliver his comic and witty take on love, sex, romance, and marriage as he guides more innocent generations down the same road to success that he enjoys in his own relationships...read more

Product Description: Roger and Linda Welsch matched references from Willa Cather's writing with recipes they collected from Cather family recipe files, from other period cookbooks, and from old-time ethnic cooks still living in the Bohemian tradition...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Humorist, tractor guy, and aspiring sex therapist Roger Welsch offers up the vital information men need to walk that fine line between a happy life with your significant other and a couple of sheds full of well-oiled machinery. Learn the ins and outs of the Great Tractor Road Trip, Boswell Flick's Dating Guidelines, the magic of tools, the religion of tractors, and the secrets of Women's School...read more

Product Description: Roger Welsch did what many Americans only dream of doing. While still in his professional prime, the folklorist and humorist quit a tenured professorship and headed toward the hinterland. Resettled in the open heart of Nebraska with his wife, Welsch proceeded to learn how to live...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A humorous study of the masculine world of cooking and eating shares tips and anecdotes about such topics as the ideal restaurant, barbecue grills, drinks, and the culinary arts

Product Description: The Turtle Creek band of the fictional Nehawka Indians wages a battle for the return of their sacred Sky Bundle, a medicine pouch containing artifacts. It reposes under glass in an eastern museum at the beginning of Touching the Fire...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Knee-slapping fun for everyone! Well-known humorist and columnist Roger Welsch recalls with wit the missteps, mishaps, and local characters he encountered along the way to fixing up a pile of rusty sheet metal to a beautifully restored Allis Chalmers WC he lovingly refers to as Woodpecker...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Uncle Smoke, a revered storyteller of the fictional Nehawka tribe, shares four stories about the legendary trickster, Coyote

Uncle Smoke, a revered storyteller of the fictional Nehawka tribe, shares four stories about the legendary trickster, Coyote

Product Description: Were our forefathers liars? "You bet they were," says Roger Welsch, "and damned fine ones at that." The proof is in Catfish at the Pump, a collection of the kind of humor that softened the hardships of pioneering on the Great Plains...read more

Product Description: Plains folklorist Roger L. Welsch has edited a lively collection of stories by some master yarnspinners—those old-time traveling horse traders. Told to Federal Writers' Project fieldworkers in the 1930s, these stories cover the span of horse trading: human and equine trickery, orneriness, debility—and generosity...read more

Product Description: Folklore tells us something about almost every aspect of the life of the people. This rich and entertaining collection of Nebraska pioneer folklore, taken largely from the Nebraska Folklore Pamphlets issued by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, is intended first and foremost for the general reader, for the people whose heritage it is...read more

Product Description: Book by Welsch, Roger L.

'More than corn grows tall on the American Plains. Here for the delectation of amateur folklorists is a collection of country whoppers from the frontier of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Iowa - funny and fantastic yarns and anecdotes of pioneer vintage that belie the erroneous notion that the men and women who settled the Plains were 'grimly serious' forerunners of Grant Wood's farming couple' - "Publishers Weekly". 'The compiler of "A Treasury of Nebraska Pioneer Folklore" [also a Bison Book] has now collected tall tales, lies, and fantabulous descriptions from the Plains states. These constitute a jackpot of pioneer humor; and by making them available in one volume, the author has preserved a lively segment of popular culture' - "Library Journal".'Roger Welsch has an uncanny facility for producing books in which the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Like his earlier "Sod Walls: The Story of the Nebraska Sod House", this volume is a collection of many bits and pieces that, taken as a whole, present a vivid picture of life on the American prairie' - "Journal of American Folklore". Roger Welsch has written numerous books. He delivers a "Postcard from Nebraska" on CBS Sunday Morning.