There's no limit to the amount of foolishness that can ensue when a big kid is the single mother of an extremely bright young man. Read more
Seven million youngsters--one in four adolescents--have only limited potential for becoming productive adults because they are at high risk for encountering serious problems at home, in school, or in their communities. This is one of the disturbing findings in this unique overview of what is known about young people aged 10 to 17 growing up in the United States today. The book explores four problem areas that are the subject of a great deal of public interest and social concern: delinquency, substance abuse, teen pregnancy, and school failure. In examining these problem areas, Dryfoos has three objectives: to present a more cogent picture of adolescents who are at risk of problem behaviors and where they fit in society; to synthesize the experience of programs that have been successful in changing various aspects of these behaviors; and to propose strategies for using this knowledge base to implement more effective approaches to helping youngsters succeed. Among the key concepts emerging from this study are the importance of intense individual attention, social skills training, exposure to the world of work, and packaging components in broad, community-wide interventions. Schools are recognized as the focal institution in prevention, not only in regard to helping children achieve academically, but in giving young people access to social support and health programs. The author also proposes comprehensive youth development initiatives at the local, state and national level, based on programs shown to be effective in real practice. This landmark, state-of-the-art study represents an indispensable resource for anyone interested in the welfare and current problems of youth, including psychologists, sociologists, school administrators, state and federal officials, policymakers, and concerned parents. Read more
Helping readers understand the factors and considerations when deciding whether or not to take psychotropic drugs.
This important volume provides a thorough overview of a range of mental disorders, describing how they are affected by various medications and other interventions, to foster a strong alliance between family, patient, and clinician.
A popular guide for consumers about all the psychiatric drugs used with kids.
Arguments abound about whether psychiatric medicines are over- or underprescribed, even as their use in childhood and adolescence has become commonplace. Knowing how various medicines work, their side effects and doses, will help parents understand their child's experience. And if you are considering medication for your child, the crucial question is, could it help?
It is crunch time! Today we can mold more of our young boys to grow up to be goal-oriented, respectful, honest, confident young men. This interactive children s book is for boys who face great struggles in their daily environment. It offers advice on how they can build good character traits. It also gives some examples of how to build positive relationships within the family, at school, and among their friends. This book does not include many don ts. Instead, it shows what they can do to handle difficult situations. The author writes this book to assure our boys that hope can be attained with prayer, encouragement, and persistence. Read more
Robert Logsdon combines earlier works with aesthetic writing created from the backdrop of the photography of Kylie Ikerd. The poems craft visions ranging from young love, the trials of mid-life and the aspirations of aging gracefully in a modern world. The nuance of Ikerd’s lens combined with Logsdon’s translation into poetry and prose form a storytelling style that will both grip emotions and lift the spirit.Robert Logsdon combines earlier works with aesthetic writing created from the backdrop of the photography of Kylie Ikerd. The poems craft visions ranging from young love, the trials of mid-life and the aspirations of aging gracefully in a modern world. The nuance of Ikerd’s lens combined with Logsdon’s translation into poetry and prose form a storytelling style that will both grip emotions and lift the spirit. Read more
Robert Logsdon combines earlier works with aesthetic writing created from the backdrop of the photography of Kylie Ikerd. The poems craft visions ranging from young love, the trials of mid-life and the aspirations of aging gracefully in a modern world. The nuance of Ikerd’s lens combined with Logsdon’s translation into poetry and prose form a storytelling style that will both grip emotions and lift the spirit. PREFACE Youth is a novelty. As age holds its grip we look back fondly at who we think we were. Very rarely does the memory match our true past. Fantasies of relationships that were never meant to be, the loves that eluded our grasp, daydreams of people and places become more colorful and full as the years push them farther back in our minds. At a certain point in our lives the memories compete with the realities of the present. We begin viewing the world not in the memories of the past, but in the conclusions of the future. When the past and present merge with thoughts of what will be, we release ourselves of the confines of tainted memories and enjoy the freedom to view the world in a colorful light. I’m not who I was yesterday Not who I’ll be tomorrow Evolving, devolving You view me in still frame Grays and whites Never changing Yet I choose to live in a kaleidoscope Spinning, reflecting, dancing abstract In dense bright colors Of a life unchained Robert Logsdon Read more
Tips and Tools for managing life after maternity leave. Based on the popular blog “The Babyjuggler: Three kids, Two jobs, One life; winner of the December 2008 “Best of the British Mummy Blogger Carnival”, this book gives you the lowdown on how to survive the return to the world of work after the birth of your first baby. Author Sara Lloyd is the mother of three children under 6 and she also works for a major publishing company in charge of their Digital Publishing Division. Topics Include: Navigating those “Returning to Work” wardrobe worries. Dropping the “Bad Mother” Guilt-Fest. Tips on how to pace yourself in the first weeks back at work. Setting precedents for your work/life balance. How to stay calm and carry on. ”Work it Baby, Work it! – Tips on how to make every minute count! Dealing with Emergencies.Tips and Tools for managing life after maternity leave. Based on the popular blog “The Babyjuggler: Three kids, Two jobs, One life; winner of the December 2008 “Best of the British Mummy Blogger Carnival”, this book gives you the lowdown on how to survive the return to the world of work after the birth of your first baby. Author Sara Lloyd is the mother of three children under 6 and she also works for a major publishing company in charge of their Digital Publishing Division. Topics Include: Navigating those “Returning to Work” wardrobe worries. Dropping the “Bad Mother” Guilt-Fest. Tips on how to pace yourself in the first weeks back at work. Setting precedents for your work/life balance. How to stay calm and carry on. ”Work it Baby, Work it! – Tips on how to make every minute count! Dealing with Emergencies. Read more
Row, Row, Row Your Boat contains 60 short articles that cover a wide range of relevant topics, from relationships to self-empowerment to improving productivity. With wit and humor, Dr. Zloof offers us practical suggestions for living, full of earthy and expert wisdom. This is a book to return to frequently, letting it fall open to any page, knowing that whatever the topic, it will be just what is needed to get us through another day of feeling outer-driven and controlled by other people and circumstances. Dr. Zloof magically manages to do this in short articles that we can fit into our busy lives. A must read for anyone serious about living a saner life! Read more
This is a guidebook helping busy women learn to juggle work, a business, the house, the kids and still have time for yourself. Practical tips you can implement right away!
Also included are interviews from a variety of women each working from home in a different capacity. Let's learn from one another!This is a guidebook helping busy women learn to juggle work, a business, the house, the kids and still have time for yourself. Practical tips you can implement right away!
Also included are interviews from a variety of women each working from home in a different capacity. Let's learn from one another! Read more
As moving as Oliver Sacks' Awakenings--a mother breaks her 20-year silence. But is it too late?
USA Today bestselling author, Jaqueline Girdner turns her poignant wit to a new novel, Speaking in Jitterbug.
Girdner weaves the heartfelt tale of Charlotte Vogel, trapped in a mute, unmoving state by schizophrenia for two decades. When she responds to a new medication by walking, talking and even dancing, her four grown daughters and devoted husband, Gus, are overjoyed--yet thrown into turmoil. Speaking in Jitterbug tells their story with wry humor and deep feeling.
Lynne Murray, author of Bride of the Living DeadAs moving as Oliver Sacks' Awakenings--a mother breaks her 20-year silence. But is it too late?
USA Today bestselling author, Jaqueline Girdner turns her poignant wit to a new novel, Speaking in Jitterbug.
Girdner weaves the heartfelt tale of Charlotte Vogel, trapped in a mute, unmoving state by schizophrenia for two decades. When she responds to a new medication by walking, talking and even dancing, her four grown daughters and devoted husband, Gus, are overjoyed--yet thrown into turmoil. Speaking in Jitterbug tells their story with wry humor and deep feeling.
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This book is for parents, teachers and therapists and informs about the use of chess in therapy and character education.This book is for parents, teachers and therapists and informs about the use of chess in therapy and character education. Read more
Tell Your Kids a Cool Bedtime Story!
Deep down every kid loves bedtime stories, but sometimes at the end of the day you just don't have the energy. That's where the Tell Me A Story series of books can help. Each nightly episode takes 5-10 minutes to read out loud and ends in a gripping cliffhanger. Imagine your child hanging on your every word and captivating them every night with an easy to tell bedtime story.
For less time than it takes to watch the start of a sit-com, you can spend quality time with your kids and make memories they will never forget.
About The Tales of Big and Little - Doom of the Three Stones
Big and Little are two dogs who love cheese. They would never have imagined that this love would take them to another world, to do battle with the ferocious feline, Shirlee, and his army of animated Pizza Crusts! Follow Big and Little as they try to foil Shirlee's plans to take over the worlds!
About Sean Ryanis & The Impossible Chase
When the most powerful man in the galaxy is taken hostage by evil aliens, there's only one man to call. Captain Sean Ryanis! Follow him as he battles the evil Malogan Empire, tussles with Fire Pirates, and escapes the grip of the Big Boss. Can he save the galaxy from certain destruction?
About The Superhero Chronicles: Birth of Moonlight
Billy was just your average kid with a big heart, until one day something extraordinary happened to him. After a freak accident, suddenly Billy has the powerful ability to read and change emotions. Before he has time to fully understand his powers, a dark force threatens to destroy his city and only Billy can combat its evil. Will he prevail in time?
About The Lost Princess in Winter's Grip
Annabeth lives a normal life as a happy girl in a small town. Then one day her life is turned upside down by a Royal pronouncement that she is in fact a Princess! With evil nipping at her heals, Annabeth and Prince Ryan must battle Stone Monsters, Bandits, and the dreaded Ice Witches in order to reclaim her title and dispense True Justice throughout the land.
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Walking the Narrow Road: Weekly Inspiration for Christians in Business Tell Your Kids a Cool Bedtime Story!
Deep down every kid loves bedtime stories, but sometimes at the end of the day you just don't have the energy. That's where the Tell Me A Story series of books can help. Each nightly episode takes 5-10 minutes to read out loud and ends in a gripping cliffhanger. Imagine your child hanging on your every word and captivating them every night with an easy to tell bedtime story.
For less time than it takes to watch the start of a sit-com, you can spend quality time with your kids and make memories they will never forget.
About The Tales of Big and Little - Doom of the Three Stones
Big and Little are two dogs who love cheese. They would never have imagined that this love would take them to another world, to do battle with the ferocious feline, Shirlee, and his army of animated Pizza Crusts! Follow Big and Little as they try to foil Shirlee's plans to take over the worlds!
About Sean Ryanis & The Impossible Chase
When the most powerful man in the galaxy is taken hostage by evil aliens, there's only one man to call. Captain Sean Ryanis! Follow him as he battles the evil Malogan Empire, tussles with Fire Pirates, and escapes the grip of the Big Boss. Can he save the galaxy from certain destruction?
About The Superhero Chronicles: Birth of Moonlight
Billy was just your average kid with a big heart, until one day something extraordinary happened to him. After a freak accident, suddenly Billy has the powerful ability to read and change emotions. Before he has time to fully understand his powers, a dark force threatens to destroy his city and only Billy can combat its evil. Will he prevail in time?
About The Lost Princess in Winter's Grip
Annabeth lives a normal life as a happy girl in a small town. Then one day her life is turned upside down by a Royal pronouncement that she is in fact a Princess! With evil nipping at her heals, Annabeth and Prince Ryan must battle Stone Monsters, Bandits, and the dreaded Ice Witches in order to reclaim her title and dispense True Justice throughout the land.
Look for Other Titles By Josh Kilen:
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In A Love that Multiplies, Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar share the principles they have relied upon to get them through the challenges of raising nineteen children, as well as the character qualities they teach their kids and try to model themselves. The world continues to be amazed by their nineteen well-groomed, well-behaved, well-schooled children and their home life, which focuses on family, financial responsibility, fun—and most importantly, faith. The Duggars show how parents can succeed whether they’re rearing a single child or several. Read more
A child's thoughts on parenting read by 5 amazing children. This one hour audio contains practical, easy-to-understand advice from the child's voice. It covers issues from birth to college. Every parent will love this! Read more
Your Child Would Like to Tell You a Thing or Two… About Parenting! You’ve studied the experts, listened to neighbors, and sought advice from friends. Now it’s time to hear from the ultimate source for parenting advice. Just Me: What Your Child Wants YOU To Know About Parenting, by just jackie, offers insightful and inspirational parenting advice from a child’s perspective. “I was tired of reading the same parenting advice over and over and frustrated that parents seem to be struggling more than ever with raising families,” just jackie explains. “So I allowed my inner child to find the right words to help adults really see and hear each child.” Endearing illustrations from students at The Post Oak School bring the child’s spirit alive throughout the pages. This little book is the perfect parental primer for a life of love, laughter and learning with your child. Read more
Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children.Go the Fuck to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don’t always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate, and radically honest, it captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Beautiful, subversive, and pants-wettingly funny, Go the Fuck to Sleep is a book for parents new, old, and expectant. You probably should not read it to your children. Read more
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A colorful and fun way to rethink the English alphabet with your preschooler. This book is inspired by DidiPop's hit youtube video, "The Cool Alphabet Song". DidiPop makes children's music, videos and books. It's creator, Deborah Poppink, is a musician, performer and social scientist who graduated from U.C. Berkeley. She's taught children for 20 years and lives in Mar Vista with her husband and 2 daughters.A colorful and fun way to rethink the English alphabet with your preschooler. This book is inspired by DidiPop's hit youtube video, "The Cool Alphabet Song". DidiPop makes children's music, videos and books. It's creator, Deborah Poppink, is a musician, performer and social scientist who graduated from U.C. Berkeley. She's taught children for 20 years and lives in Mar Vista with her husband and 2 daughters. Read more
A Father's Advice is a resource on a variety of subjects that men must learn about in order to find success. From forgiveness to competition to temptation, author Kelly Ready shares his experience and encourages all men to learn from each other’s mistakes rather than to find out the hard way for themselves. This book makes a great gift for husbands, can be used as a tool for fathers and sons, or could even make a good study guide in men’s accountability groups.
A Father's Advice is a resource on a variety of subjects that men must learn about in order to find success. From forgiveness to competition to temptation, author Kelly Ready shares his experience and encourages all men to learn from each other’s mistakes rather than to find out the hard way for themselves. This book makes a great gift for husbands, can be used as a tool for fathers and sons, or could even make a good study guide in men’s accountability groups.
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Nancy Lin's outrageous tales are a coming of age compilation for Generations Alpha and beyond. Her words of wisdom, framed as lessons for her son, are defiant and unrepentant in turpitude. Lin skillfully interweaves canny reflections on everyday life and shrewd commentaries with rip-roaring humor to create a credo for young adult life. This book is a breath of fresh air with an atypical moral compass. Lin will keep you entertained in this children's book for grown-ups, a must-read for college-bound teens. The stories additionally serve as a blast from the past for Gen X-ers who will enjoy the walk down pop culture's memory lane. Hilariously irreverent and wickedly profane, with parents like these two, Milo is certainly in for a wild ride. Looking forward to Dear Milo volume two. -Harry P. Ness and Jack Goff Read more
Eileen Thornton was a child of divorce. She never knew her father; felt unloved by her mother. At nineteen she developed bi-polar disorder. She spent large periods of her life in sanitariums where she received innumerable electroconvulsive shock treatments. At twenty-six she gave birth to twin daughters. One died immediately. The other, a victim of cerebral palsy, spent her life in a wheelchair and succumbed to mental illness as a teenager.
From the moment of her disabled daughter's birth, Eileen was always at her side in mind, body and spirit. These two never left each others thoughts. Their relationship was the epitome of love and devotion.
The story is penned by two of Eileen's children in honor of what they consider to be a remarkable example of how much a woman is willing to sacrifice for her child. It is sure to be an inspiration not only to those who, like their mother, suffer from mental illness but anyone who faces an overwhelming challenge.
Eileen Thornton was a child of divorce. She never knew her father; felt unloved by her mother. At nineteen she developed bi-polar disorder. She spent large periods of her life in sanitariums where she received innumerable electroconvulsive shock treatments. At twenty-six she gave birth to twin daughters. One died immediately. The other, a victim of cerebral palsy, spent her life in a wheelchair and succumbed to mental illness as a teenager.
From the moment of her disabled daughter's birth, Eileen was always at her side in mind, body and spirit. These two never left each others thoughts. Their relationship was the epitome of love and devotion.
The story is penned by two of Eileen's children in honor of what they consider to be a remarkable example of how much a woman is willing to sacrifice for her child. It is sure to be an inspiration not only to those who, like their mother, suffer from mental illness but anyone who faces an overwhelming challenge.
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Family childcare homes provide care for hundreds of thousands of children every day. From Babysitter to Business Owner offers tried-and-true strategies for implementing established professional business practices in the home daycare environment, including:
• Developing a thorough parent handbook
• Selecting new clients
• Setting business goals
• Selecting an appropriate curriculum
• Creating “work” spaces in your home
Practical and easy to read, From Babysitter to Business Owner has everything home daycare providers need to make their business succeed.
Patricia Dischler has operated Patty Cake Preschool in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, for over 15 years.
Business & Economics / Childcare October A Paperback Original 7 x 9, 224 pp TP $17.95 10-digit ISBN: 1-929610-68-8 USA 13-digit ISBN: 9781929610686 Author Hometown: Prairie du Sac, WI Weaving the Literacy Web Creating Curriculum Based on Books Children Love Hope VestergaardFrom Goodnight Moon to The Very Hungry Caterpillar, books capture the attention and imagination of young children the way few other things can. Weaving the Literacy Web provides a framework for developing engaging, developmentally appropriate curriculum in the preschool classroom through the use of books children love. Six chapters offer an introduction to book-based webbing and ideas for activity planning, as well as helpful tips for observing children’s interests and evaluating books for the classroom library.
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The Adventures of the Fruitiebears. Book 2. Fruitie Cars. Helping young children to eat lots more fruits and vegetables in a fun and happy way. lots more amazing drawings and introducing the fruitiecars and Veggiecars........Wow! Read more
All you ever needed to know about 32 learning centers is included in this comprehensive book. Clear illustrations provide a layout of each center with suggestions on setting up the classroom environment. Each center includes an introduction, learning objectives, letter to the parents, related vocabulary, and a web of integrated learning diagramming the spectrum of curriculum areas taught. Read more
In this straight-talking, inspirational view of failure, Marianna Caplan unmasks it for what it really is: She tells us how to meet failure on its own field, how to learn its twists and turns, its illusions and its realities. Only then, she advises, is one equipped to engage failure as a means of ultimate winning, and in a way that far exceeds our culturally-defined visions of success. This book offers a direct means of using failure for: profound self-understanding; increased compassion for self and others; significant spiritual development. Instead of speaking to where we should be, this book looks to our lives as they are now, realistically -- since everybody has experienced failure in big or small ways at some time or another in life. The book deals with a subject most people consider negative or depressing, but it is actually highly inspirational, giving us permission to find joy and contentment within failure. Read more
From Academy Award-nominated director Lasse Hallström (2000, The Cider House Rules) comes Hachi: a Dog's Tale, a film based on one of the most treasured and heartwarming true stories ever told. Golden Globe winner Richard Gere (2002, Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, Chicago) stars as Professor Parker Wilson, a distinguished scholar who discovers a lost Akita puppy on his way home from work. Despite initial objections from Wilson’s wife, Cate (Academy Award nominee Joan Allen – 2000, Best Actress, The Contender), Hachi endears himself into the Wilson family and grows to be Parker's loyal companion. As their bond grows deeper, a beautiful relationship unfolds embodying the true spirit of family and loyalty, while inspiring the hearts of an entire town.Based on a true story from Japan, Hachi: A Dog's Tale is a moving film about loyalty and the rare, invincible bonds that occasionally form almost instantaneously in the most unlikely places. College professor Parker Wilson (Richard Gere) finds a young Akita puppy that's been abandoned at the local train station, and he's instantly captivated by the dog. Assuming the dog's owner will return to the train station to claim him in the morning, Parker takes the puppy home overnight. But when no one comes to get the dog, Parker convinces his wife, Cate (Joan Allen), to welcome him as part of the family. He dubs the puppy Hachiko--Hachi, for short--because of the Japanese symbol for good luck that's hanging from his collar. Hachi is a somewhat peculiar dog that refuses to learn to fetch or master other people-pleasing tricks, but he is a faithful companion and friend to Parker, alerting him of potential dangers and accompanying him to the train station each morning and meeting him there after his return trip each evening. An unforeseen event will continually test Hachi's devotion. This film is neither overwrought nor sappy; it is heartfelt and immensely powerful despite its tendency to drag in a few places. Prepare to be moved to tears by this beautiful, seemingly simple film--it's about so much more than just the relationship between a man and his dog. --Tami Horiuchi Read more
What's the funniest place to eat lunch? In the laugh-eteria!
Parents can turn lunchtime into a real treat with a joke from Lunch Lines every day. Just tear out a joke and drop it in a lunch—perfect for busy parents and hectic mornings! Read more
For roughly forty years, viewers around the globe have been drawn to The Waltons, a simple family from the Virginia backwoods who specialized in hard work, integrity, and care and concern for each other and their fellow men. The virtues they taught us, though, don't deserve to be relegated to some Blue Ridge Museum of Antiquity. Within these covers, the author has revisited the series, and penned a collection of letters to his children (and to the next generation as a whole) based upon lessons gleaned from the landmark television show. May we be bold enough to swim against the sweeping currents of society, and purposefully instill these timeless values in ourselves and in the next generation. Read more
