Parent category: 1315 books
College Success Guaranteed 2.0
5 Rules for Parents
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Teaching for nearly 40 years, Malcolm Gauld has watched thousands of high school graduates head off to college. After a while, he began to notice some unmistakable patterns—good and bad—relating to students after they hit college. About a decade ago, he began giving an annual talk to high school...
by Dawn Marcotte
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
A helpful resource for parents with practical ideas on helping kids do homework. Tips for reading, writing, math and spelling are provided. There are also tips on organizational skills, time management, project managment and for special needs students.
Tips and ideas can be implemented immediately...
Who Says Bullies Rule?
Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids to Cope
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Who Says Bullies Rule?: Common Sense Tips to Help Your Kids Cope gives parents practical bully prevention tips for their elementary and middle school children. It helps parents empower their children to stop bullying before it veers out of control and teaches parents to navigate their school systems'...
Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society
Learning From and With Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2011
Educators everywhere confront critical issues related to families, schooling, and teaching in diverse settings. Directly addressing this reality, Home-School Connections in a Multicultural Society shows pre-service and practicing teachers how to recognize and build on the rich resources for enhancing...
by Gomotsegang Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014
Blind Emotions is specially written for parents, mainly fathers and how they tend to go wrong while raising female children. It is a true story about a young adult. She has a bright future and a dark past catching up to her. She has never expressed her emotions to her parents but to a psychic. Irrational...
by Terry Angel Mason
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2009
Love Wont Let Me Be Silent is a collection of writings, short stories, and poems, exploring the experiences and trials of parenthood from an African-American gay male perspective and sensitively chronicles Masons search for love and self-hood. These masterfully creative writings express candidly the...
Mama Drama
Making Peace with the One Woman Who Can Push Your Buttons, Make You Cry, and Drive You Crazy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
Guilt. Criticism. Control. Competition. Anger.
If these words reflect your relationship with your mother, then Mama Drama can give you the tools to free yourself from the binds of an unhealthy mother/daughter relationship. A woman's relationship with her mother is often the most complex, emotionally...
by Rhonda Ellen Shlanger
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Melissa was diagnosed with Autism as a young child. Autism affects social and communication skills, and also involves unusual repetitive behaviours. This is a true story that is not simply about the struggles of a child with Autism. This book captures the resilience, unconditional love and endless...
by Jan Geurtz
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: September 27, 2012
Jan Geurtz, bekend van de bestsellers De opluchting en De verslaving voorbij, laat in zijn nieuwste boek zien dat de crisis in de opvoedkunde, maar vooral ook in de dagelijkse praktijk van het opvoeden, veroorzaakt wordt door een fundamentele fout in ons basisprincipe van het opvoeden. Terwijl we...
The Little Book for Dads
Stories, Jokes, Games, and More
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Hundreds of family traditions to share with your little ones!
Play an exciting game of Slapjack with your kids. Spark their creativity with the perfect rainy day craft. Send those sleepy eyes off to bed with an enchanting tale of adventure. A collection that you'll turn to time and time again,...
by Michele Dunaway
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2018
True or False?
Someone on the campus tour will be annoying.
The majority of times you do need to pre-register.
The flight attendant will check the size of your carry-on bag.
Every university you go see will make some reference to Harry Potter.
College visits are...
Puff in the Pillow
Fireworks Night
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Puff is a lovely character who lives in every child’s pillow and who they can turn to when scared and worried about something their life. In this story Puff helps a little girl confront her fear of Fireworks. Many children have a fears which parents need to manage. Puff in the Pillow: Fireworks...
Criminals
My Family's Life on Both Sides of the Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
Moving and unexpected, this first nonfiction offering by Robert Anthony Siegel is the literary equivalent of The Royal Tenenbaums
Essays from this collection have won awards and been and prestigiously published, including: "Sean" in The Harvard Review, which won a Pushcart Prize;...
Reading with Babies, Toddlers and Twos
A Guide to Laughing, Learning and Growing Together Through Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
It's never too early—or too late—to start sharing books with your baby!
Reading is one of the first activities you can enjoy with your child, and Reading with Babies, Toddlers, and Twos gets you started by answering questions such as:
Which books will a newborn baby enjoy?
What...