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Encouraging Your Child's Imagination
A Guide and Stories for Play Acting
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
iPads, iPhones, Notebooks, X-Boxes, PlayStations, Televisions, Computers. They've found their way into every corner of our lives. Add to that, the pressures of the modern education with standardized tests and crowded classrooms, and it seems that our children have lost the simplicity of childhood....
Education's Missing Ingredient
What Parents Can Tell Educators
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book takes on the issues of our failures from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's woes and our republic's...
Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College
(A Special Guide for Latino Parents)
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Help Your Children Succeed in High School and Go to College is a guide for Latino parents that stresses the importance of education and provides a framework for parents to put their children on a college-bound path. It explains the American educational system, how parents can get involved, how to...
Home Is Where the School Is
The Logic of Homeschooling and the Emotional Labor of Mothering
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must...
Emptying the Nest
Launching Your Young Adult toward Success and Self-Reliance
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
In today's rapidly changing world and challenging economy, young adults increasingly find themselves at a crossroads between financial and emotional dependence and autonomy. Drawing on Dr. Sachs' extensive clinical experience and his illuminating discussion of the latest psychological research, Emptying...
Loving Hard-to-Love Parents
A Handbook for Adult Children of Difficult Older Parents
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Everyone knows some truly fine people in their thirties to sixties whose older parents treat them really badly, with hurtful sarcasm, irrational demands, constant criticism, and undeserved anger. These frustrated, unappreciated adult sons and daughters simply want to be good to their parents. Perhaps...
by Derek Pugh
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2012
The Owner's Guide to the Teenage Brain reveals the mysteries of modern neuroscience and teaches teenagers, parents and teachers how to prepare their brains for learning. Knowing the optimal conditions for brain function teaches us how to maximize the efficiency of our learning. This is powerful knowledge...
by Linda Todd
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
In 1999 my husband and I asked my parents who were struggling with Alzheimer's and dementia, to come and live with our family. During the year they were in our home and the year my mother was in the nursing home, I wrote almost daily updates to my siblings, our out of state children, a cousin and...
Abandoned Faith
Why Millennials Are Walking Away and How You Can Lead Them Home
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Millennials (those born between 1980 and 2000) constitute a group of over 80 million individuals who are technologically astute, ethnically diverse, and culturally and vibrantly engaged. Yet they face high unemployment and massive debt, and they comprise the largest number of religiously unaffiliated...
The Message in the Bottle
Finding Hope and Peace Amidst the Chaos of Living with an Alcoholic
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
The Message in the Bottle helps those who feel alone in their struggle with the drinker in their life find peace and hope. Is the drinker in your life making you crazy? Do you find that your thoughts and free time are consumed by ideas and plans to fix things so they won’t want to drink? Do you...
Different Daughters
A Book by Mothers of Lesbians
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2001
"This book will help your mom understand. Give it to her."—Betty DeGeneres
Coming out to mom is a lesbian rite of passage. In Different Daughters, thirty mothers of lesbians come together to trace their journeys towards acceptance of their daughters. Facing their fears and confusion,...
by Prisca Kim, Paul Kim
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2018
Concept
The book is a short life essay written in the form of letters exchanged between a father, a philosophy professor, and his only daughter. They shared their thoughts on various topics from life values to happiness to family issues.
Purpose
Collected from their e-mail correspondence...
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know (Revised and Updated)
Fundamentals of a Good Second-Grade Education
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2014
Give your child a smart start with the revised and updated
What Your Second Grader Needs to Know
What will your child be expected to learn in the second grade? How can you help him or her at home? This book answers these all-important questions and more, offering the specific shared knowledge...
by Liza A Perez
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
This Book Is to help Women & Teen-agers Break the Past Generation Cycles when it comes to what we have been taught & What we Teach. That What Works for our Past Generation Doesnt always work for The New Generation & To Always Be seen And Always Be Heard.