Lit List Short Reviews Traeger Grill & Smoker/Blackstone Outdoor Gas Griddle Cookbook by Dr. Anisah; Calibrated Child Effective Anger Management for Kids: Unleashing Emotional Intelligence to Increase Positive Behaviors Through Playful Strategies, Mindful Moments and Creative Coping Techniques by Sierra Nice; Calibrated Parenting Effective Anger Management for Parents: How to Master Emotions, Connect with Your Kids, and Raise Confident, Happy Children Through Gentle Parenting Mastery & Positive Reinforcement by Sierra Nice

 Lit List Short Reviews Traeger Grill & Smoker/Blackstone Outdoor Gas Griddle Cookbook by Dr Anisah; Calibrated Child Effective Anger Management for Kids: Unleashing Emotional Intelligence to Increase Positive Behaviors Through Playful Strategies, Mindful Moments and Creative Coping Techniques by Sierra Nice; Calibrated Parenting Effective Anger Management for Parents: How to Master Emotions, Connect with Your Kids, and Raise Confident, Happy Children Through Gentle Parenting Mastery & Positive Reinforcement by Sierra Nice 

Traeger Grill & Smoker/Blackstone Outdoor Gas Griddle Cookbook by Dr  Anisah

This is a two part cookbook with double the amount of delicious recipes and plenty of advice on maintaining and caring for the proper equipment. Unfortunately, it has some formatting issues that could leave the Reader impaired when they try to follow the cooking instructions.

The recipes vary not only as breakfast, lunch, and dinner meals but elaborate on what one could cook on a grill, smoker, or griddle. Such recipes as “Cedar-Smoked Breakfast Pizza” and “Savory Grilled Breakfast Tacos” are rather interesting ideas to spice up any meal.

Since cooking with outdoor equipment can be unpredictable, the book offers tips on maintaining such equipment and keeping safe while cooking. It's always important to keep cooking equipment clean and in a secure environment so that they can still be used. That is especially important when said cooking equipment is only able to be used during certain times of the year and might not work the next time they are taken out.

Unfortunately, this set has some formatting issues that could be trouble for those wanting to follow the recipes. Some items within lists are not bold while others are.

Sometimes, Anisah or whoever did the editing forgot to add bullets or numbers with some of the individual items on lists. When working on a book that relies on a step-by-step process, it is important to make the lists uniform so the Reader can easily find what is needed. It can be rather difficult to follow a recipe and leave out a step because it wasn't bulleted or numbered correctly.

Despite the formatting issues, this is a good book for the eager outdoor chef. Just make sure to read closely.

Calibrated Child Effective Anger Management for Kids: Unleashing Emotional Intelligence to Increase Positive Behaviors Through Playful Strategies, Mindful Moments and Creative Coping Techniques by Sierra Nice

Calibrated Child is part of a four part series that helps to improve the relationship between parents and children. This book offers advice on how parents can deal with angry and emotional children.

The tips provided emphasize communication and understanding over punishment and retribution. Such tips like active listening and asking questions gets to the point of what is bothering the child. It asks why a kid is upset, not how their behavior is upsetting.

The book gets into correcting unruly behavior but focuses on discussion not anger. It particularly involves helping children understand empathy and kindness towards others and telling them why their behavior hurts others. 

One of the more interesting chapters consist of using play and creative techniques for kids to display and reveal their anger. Parents could encourage children to draw or write about what bothers them. Not only is it a good way of releasing anger, but it encourages children to develop and cultivate artistic talents.

It also deals with one of the more difficult concerns that parents often have. When parents make mistakes with rearing their children, they should admit it. It shows that adults are people who make mistakes and aren't infallible. When parents are wrong, they can admit they are wrong and apologize. It helps children understand that mistakes will always be a part of life.

Calibrated Child helps parents teach children to let go of their anger and become more understanding, empathetic, and better human beings.

Calibrated Parenting Effective Anger Management for Parents: How to Master Emotions, Connect with Your Kids, and Raise Confident, Happy Children Through Gentle Parenting Mastery & Positive Reinforcement by Sierra Nice 

This volume in the series focuses on parents and how they put their emotional baggage into raising children. This book offers advice on how Readers can manage and control their own anger becoming stronger and more understanding parents.

The book emphasizes gentle parenting, an evidence based approach based on being compassionate and setting boundaries. It emphasizes self-awareness and understanding behavior particularly in communicating with children why such behavior is wrong and what can be done to properly deal with the behavior and the situation that led to it.

Since parents are often busy taking care of others and seeing to their needs, they often ignore their own. Many times this leads to the parent feeling angry and resentful. They may take those emotions out on those closest to them. 

This book suggests various means of managing anger. Implementing techniques such as mindfulness, self-care, and journaling allow the parent to address those emotions in a healthy capacity and to give them a few moments of much needed solitude, rest, and relaxation.

The book offers advice on time management. It suggests that time allocating for family should be used with the family and not to divide attention between work and family. It helps the child feel accepted and encouraged to communicate with their parents. It also helps the parent focus on that specific allotment of time and what is more important to them instead of feeling mentally scattered and stressed.

Anger Management is a difficult process, one which parents and their children can learn. Books like this help them work together to understand that anger, not to let it control them, and to become closer as a family.