Good books are often good friends. Because gifted readers often intensely identify with characters, good books can provide bridges to new insights and better communication of feelings, values, and decision making, while also fostering intellectual and creative development.
Now in its third edition, Some of My Best Friends Are Books describes:
Intellectual and emotional needs of children of high ability
Typical and advanced reading patterns for grades K-12
How parents and teachers can give reading guidance and discuss books with young readers
A well-indexed annotated bibliography of more than 300 books for readers of all ages, carefully selected to promote intellectual and emotional development
Books that deal with themes such as Achievement, Aloneness, Arrogance, Developing Imagination, Intensity, Introversion, Perfectionism, Relationships with Others, Sensitivity, and Resiliency
An index with suggested titles for each theme and the page numbers for short summaries of these titles
Written by a parent for parents! More than 30 chapters feature different aspects of charter schools from the perspective of a charter school mom. It also boasts a directory of award winning charter schools, plus a research guide to equip readers in pursuit of their happily education after. The fastest growing school choice is public charter schools. It is not just moms who favor charters, the list includes dads, teachers, community members-even legislators.
Part 1 provides parents with the basic facts on charter school origins. It answers: "Why do parents choose charter schools?" The answers come directly from charter school parents.
Part 2 covers the basic structure of a charter school answering questions such as: Are charter school teachers qualified? Who attends a charter school? Who's the boss?
Part 3 answers questions about charter school functions which are often asked by incoming families. We discuss expected workload, what to wear, the difference between amenities and necessities, as well as learning services.
Part 4 is designed to help parents make a school decision, regardless of the answer. What are some of the facts you should consider? What concessions may need to be made? Is this realistic for you? Which type of charter school may be a fit? How do you enroll in a charter?
Part 5 gives a glimpse of the charter school life. How do you connect with other families? Where do you volunteer? How do you build a relationship with your child's teacher? How do you network with other charter schools?
Part 6 dives behind the scenes of charter school creation, how they are financed, and state laws.
Part 7 looks at the politics, the unions and other hot topics surrounding charter schools.
Part 8 overflows with a glossary of terms, resources and support available.
Two media-savvy authors—Lynn Toler, Judge of TV’s Divorce Court, and Deborah Hutchison, creator of the award-winning “Bill Your Ex” system—offer concrete, conflict-free solutions to the difficult situations that arise between family and friends.
Did you ever lose a friend over an unpaid debt? Get stuck with a houseguest who has no intention of moving out? Quarrel with a relative over use of the family car? For those who follow Toler and Hutchison’s wise counsel, these common disputes need never happen. Through dozens of true stories, they show how “putting it in writing”—creating a clear written agreement—prevents the kinds of bitter misunderstandings that can destroy relationships and devastate families. Here’s detailed advice on how to choose the right words—and enforce them, too. To make it really easy, they provide perforated forms with model agreements for lending money or property, adult children moving home, sharing a pet, taking care of aging parents, and more.
In STOP THE STRUGGLE! Margit Crane invites you to a warm and highly informative chat about parenting gifted tweens and teens. Whether you are preparing for adolescence or seeking to repair your relationship with your teenagers, these easy-to-read and easy-to-implement strategies will pave the way to a lifetime of family harmony.
You will learn: •How to talk to your teen so your teen will WANT to listen! • Why teens LOVE rules! • When to let go, and when to keep them close! • How to reach the gifted child who thinks they know everything already! • What to do if your tween or teen is lazy/stubborn/bossy/dishonest! • Why they do the less-than-charming things that they do! • How to create meaningful rules and consequences! • When and how to start dating again (for parents!) • How to be an awesome stepparent!
Intuitives have been called the sensitive ones, the creative dreamers, who share what they experience that others do not see. Finally, parents whose children are intuitively gifted have new, concrete strategies for raising them to be strong contributors in life.
Raising Intuitive Children helps parents understand an intuitive child's world. More than that, it shows parents how to validate, not suppress, these intuitive abilities. The stakes are high. If their intuitive abilities get dismissed, intuitive children can lose their way, their joy, and their spirit.
Psychotherapist Caron Goode teams up with parenting expert and coach Tara Paterson to share explanations, stories, and examples many from Tara's own family in this ground-breaking guide.
Each year in America those devastating words thrust parents of more than 12,000 children and adolescents into a frightening, dark tunneldramatically changing the dynamics of each family. Because childhood cancer attacks quickly and unexpectedly, parents reel, bombarded with information regarding treatments, tests and decisionsas parents echo, Ive never felt so alone. I feel like Im in a fog.
From the initial diagnosis and throughout the daunting journey the twelve chapters and resources in Hope for Families of Children with Cancer weave advice, support and hope from fellow travelers and professionals who come alongside through encouraging short stories, refreshing helpful hints and inspiring scriptures and prayers.
Many weary parents pull apart as communication breaks downsometimes far apart. An added study, Youniquely Made helps family members appreciate different personalities and methods of coping. Overwhelmed families find comfort and courage as writers deal with the struggles parents face balancing needs of their child; family ( the setaside spouses and the invisible onessiblings); and selfthe caregiverthe new normal of childhood cancer.
The Parent-Child Book Club: Connecting With Your Kids Through Reading, is a comprehensive resource presenting easy-to-follow ideas for organizing and conducting a parent-child book club for children ages 4-9. Through reading and discussing books, and engaging in related enrichment activities, families will promote long-lasting and meaningful connections.
Additionally, children will have the opportunity to further develop reading and analytical skills, to foster a love of reading, and to explore thought-provoking thematic activities. Throughout the book, the authors offer concrete suggestions about how to choose stimulating books and craft thoughtful discussion questions, develop art and science projects, serve theme-related food, create puzzles and word games, organize physical activities and field trips, and plan other enrichment activities.
The authors also provide expert guidance about developing goals and guidelines for the book club, establishing book club routines, and leading the book club meetings. Significantly, the book contains 20 fully-tested “Book Club Model Guides” that set forth everything the reader needs to run successful meetings. Busy parents can simply use these Model Guides to efficiently conduct the meetings. Also included are valuable sections regarding quick tips for success, book club do’s and don’ts, and real life issues solved. Time-saving lists of common art supplies that relate to many projects, and lists of projects that complement many book themes, are also offered. Especially useful are annotated lists of age-appropriate children’s books, adult reference books, and helpful websites.
With over one million copies in print, Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn is one of the best-selling books about pregnancy on the market. More complete and up-to-date than any other pregnancy guide, this remarkable resource is "the bible" for childbirth educators. Now revised with a greatly expanded treatment of pregnancy tests, complications, and infections; expanded list of drugs and medications, plus advice for uses; and a brand-new chapter on creating a detailed birth plan.
The Everyday Guide to Special Education Law is an essential tool for parents to get the best education possible for their child with disabilities. Along with information about obtaining a free appropriate public education, IEPs, discipline, dispute resolution, early childhood services, and 504 plans, the new second edition has been updated to include the most recent changes in federal law including:
• the IDEA requirements for services plans for children placed in private schools • how to file complaints with State Education Agencies for violations of the IDEA including obtaining compensatory services • timelines for resolving disputes under the IDEA and how to use "mediation" and the new "resolution process" • the evaluation process and response-to-intervention (RTI)
This handbook is so useful to parents, they call it "The Special Education Bible" and it is also a great resource for teachers and school administrators. "This book is very easy to read. It takes a complicated subject and explains it in plain everyday language." CIPA Judge's comment
Authentic and empowering, The Momnificent! Life ~ Healthy and Balanced Living for Busy Moms by Lori Radun is an important work of nonfiction, which can play a significant role in creating healthy families based on the concept that mothers are role models and that the path to a happy family begins with a happy mother. Prepare to be inspired, get ready to celebrate balance and begin learning how to create your own support network using savvy concrete advice on money, time and health management, not to mention a number of clear directives on how to have fun.
In just under sixty chapters, the author takes readers through eight subsections entitled, "Personal Development," "Spirituality," "Fun and Enjoyment," "Relationships," "Health and Aging" "Personal Finance," "Career and Profession," and "Home and Family," that prove a graceful approach to looking at one's whole life. The author leaves no stone unearthed as she offers advice on achieving financial intimacy with one's partner, guidance on sibling rivalry and the best protocols for establishing a child's allowance. Her keen-witted insight measures the entire breadth of childhood and beyond. Children will test boundaries and push buttons, negative people will butt their ugly heads in our lives and it is best to live a de-cluttered life. The point is that finally a life coach takes the time to mete out much needed direction to mothers in order to minimize mommy stress, identify and solve problems to begin living life as an adventure. By walking the talk, mothers begin teaching children about independence and responsibility--they are the first one's to answer the call and open the door to create extraordinary families living extraordinary lives.
A comprehensive program for the first six years of a child's life, created to develop overall coordination and ability by investing just ten minutes a day.
Tennis pro and master coach Karen Ronney offers a step-by-step handbook with over 200 games for parents who want to jump-start their child's fundamental skills, self-confidence, and sports potential while creating a lifestyle of family fitness. She offers an in-depth explanation of a child's development, their learning styles, with physical and brain anatomy and growth facts, and how simple, fun activities can be the key to unlock their abilities in every area of life. Includes recent scientific and academic research, progress charts, how to incorporate purposeful play, and even helps for families with special-needs kids.
Your Child Will Be Heading Off to College! Are You Ready? March is typically when high school seniors breathlessly wait for college acceptance letters to arrive. Suddenly it becomes very real to parents that their child will be leaving soon to start the next chapter of his or her life. There is a lot the student needs to do to prepare for that next step, and usually the college will send incoming students a thick package of useful information. But there is also a lot that parents need to do and know before they wave goodbye at the airport or dorm. Thankfully Marie Carr, one mom who kept careful track of everything she learned the hard way as her three daughters went off to college, has assembled lots of important and smart tips in a helpful handbook that all parents of a college-bound student will want to have - both for the getting ready phase and for quick reference later. Prepared Parent's Operational Manual: Sending Your Child to College covers everything from student banking and dorm life to health insurance, class schedules and support services. There are forms, checklists and helpful tips, including not only what students can take to school but also what they should leave behind. Prepared Parent's Operational Manual: Sending Your Child to College will help parents deal with the nitty-gritty details of sending their child off to college.
Powerful, practical strategies to build a lifetime of resilience, flexibility, and happiness. Several years ago Dr. Tamar Chansky, one of the nation’s leading clinical experts on children and anxiety disorders, realized that roughly half of the children she sees in her clinical practice exhibit “negative thinking.” These children see only those things that are wrong with themselves, the world, and the future. Distinct from the type of thinking Dr. Chansky encountered in children with anxiety and obsessive-compulsive symptoms, children who engage in negative thinking supersize their problems: Nothing ever works for me. There’s no point. I give up. This negativity creates emotional hurdles that often hinder children from achieving success and happiness, both now and in the years to come. Now in this landmark book, Dr. Chansky thoroughly analyzes the underlying causes of children’s negative attitudes and provides numerous strategies to help parents and their children manage negative thoughts, build optimism, and establish emotional resilience. She shows how to buffer kids from disappointment, failure, and frustration by helping them to think more accurately about their problems—to right-size them. Freeing your Child from Negative Thinking provides parents, caregivers, and clinicians with the tools they need to relieve a child from the burden of these emotional hurdles and to build the positive, confident mindset that will set them on their way to a bright, happy future.
There is no crime not even murder that worries and sickens parents more than child sexual abuse. Parents wonder how to protect their children when almost every day the news reports another incident of someone in authority arrested on suspicion of child abuse from clergy and teachers to family members themselves. Even law enforcement has had trouble defining the problem and only recently has the Department of Justice begun recording statistics of sexual assault against children. Amid the confusion generated by sensational news reports and uncertainty regarding the nature and extent of child sexual abuse, what can parents do?
In this straightforward, clearly written guidebook, veteran sex-crimes prosecutor and Los Angeles deputy district attorney Robin Sax answers one hundred questions that she has most often encountered in her fifteen years of experience. From the definition of abuse to the profiles of a predator to how to report an incident and to whom, Sax provides practical, reassuring, and appropriate information.
Raising children is easiest and most successful when parents use certain skills. 7 Skills for Parenting Success is the first book with detailed, complete instructions for using the skills shown by research to work best with kids of all ages. This book tells readers not only what to do, but also how to do it, what to say to their kids, and what to do if the skills don't seem to be working.It also tells readers what to expect from their children at certain ages. The authors clearly show how to build relationships with children, deal with their temperaments, prevent behavior problems, discipline effectively and manage outside influences on kids, from friends to media. How to develop respectful behavior, responsibility, motivation, self-reliance, resilience, character and emotional health in children are all clearly explained.It is written to be the only parenting book that readers will ever need!
Meet Corey. Corey’s parents decided they can’t be married any more. And good gravy! If that wasn’t bad enough, now he has to listen to them say mean and nasty words about each other. Hearing his parents say such mean words about each other really upsets Corey. Corey experiences stomach aches and can’t stop worrying about what he should “do” when his parents start to act like…well…little kids.
Meet Chrissie, Corey’s bestest friend in the whole wide world. Chrissie has been there for Corey since the beginning of his parent’s separation and offers support, encouragement and narrates the stories as Corey journeys through the topsy turvey world of divorce.
Thank goodness for Ms. Daisy! She is a family counselor who works with families just like Corey’s! Ms. Daisy is able to give Corey lots of good ideas and strategies on how to cope with parents who can’t stop saying mean things about one another. She also helps Corey realize that all these yucky ways he feels is normal in situations like this-and what he can do to feel better. Therapeutic exercises lead the child through ways to not only cope but how to communicate with their parents about how this affects them. Even when nothing seems to change the parent’s behavior, Ms. Daisy help the child to find a way not take it all so seriously, just by helping them change their perception!
The parent companion helps parents understand how their mean words about each hurt their children more than each other. Through the parent companion, the reader is guided through therapeutic exercises on how to cope with hurt and angry feeling toward their former partner without hurting their children. Parents might even find a way to free themselves from the bitterness and anger they can’t seem to transcend!
