Download or read book 100 Ways to Build Self Esteem and Teach Values written by Diana Loomans and published by H J Kramer. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother-and-daughter team Diana and Julia Loomans offer 100 creative ideas, techniques, and processes for making day-to-day family interactions easier and more joyful. Based on the principle that respecting — not controlling — children is key to building self-esteem, the activities in this book promote love, self-worth, and connection between parent and child. 101 Ways to Build Self-Esteem and Teach Values offers an encyclopedia of hands-on exercises, charts, heartwarming stories, poetry, and quotations to help parents and children learn basic tools for cultivating mutual respect, recognition, and independence.
Download or read book The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy Confident Kids written by Dr. Jenn Berman and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2010-09-24 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an experienced therapist, a parenting expert on television and radio, an award-winning columnist, and a parent, Dr. Jenn Berman provides insightful and informative advice to parents as they guide their children through early childhood. The A to Z Guide to Raising Happy, Confident Kids addresses twenty-six of the most important issues that modern parents face. Each self-contained and easy-to-read chapter covers a different topic, allowing busy parents to quickly find and read what they need. You’ll turn to this great resource again and again as your children grow.
Download or read book How to Afford Time Off with your Baby written by Becky Goddard-Hill and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new baby brings a great deal of excitement to a household, but managing on a reduced income can be a daunting prospect. Full of top tips and creative ideas, this practical guide will help you make the right financial decisions during your pregnancy and throughout your maternity leave - whether this is 6 weeks or 6 years! How to Afford Time Off with Your Baby will: * help you to budget at each and every stage, from pregnancy to starting school * offer guidance on the essential pieces of baby kit so you don't overbuy * propose creative ways to generate a little extra cash and achieve more with less * advise you on how to release and save money during this critical time With an extensive resource section full of up-to-date websites, activity groups and key advisors, How to Afford Time off with Your Baby is an indispensable guide that will help you worry less so you can enjoy those precious moments with your new baby much more.
Download or read book The Lovables in the Kingdom of Self Esteem written by Diane Loomans and published by H J Kramer. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I am lovable! I am lovable! I am lovable!" are the magic words that open the gates to the Kingdom of Self-Esteem. Blending a lively narrative, charming illustrations, and valuable lessons in living, this book conducts young readers to the enchanted realm where twenty-four remarkable animals, each embodying a facet of self-esteem, await them. Each lovable animal gives children a way of identifying with and creating the qualities that make up a positive self-image. Thought by many educators and social scientists to be the key to preventing crime and alcohol and drug abuse, high self-esteem is a gift that endures for a lifetime.
Download or read book Sonas Celtic Thoughts on Happiness written by Catherine Conlon (Editor) and published by Hachette Books Ireland. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether revealed as something to be glimpsed, grasped, sought after or savoured, here a host of Irish people express what happiness means to them, in diverse and often deeply personal ways. Not all are well-known, but each one has done something fulfilling and lasting in their lives. The pieces in Sonas: Celtic Thoughts on Happiness reflect the philosophies, motivations and spiritual paths that can help us to keep an optimistic eye to the future, even in troubled times. A book to bring a smile to your face. Contributors include Bertie Ahern, Derval O Rourke, Michael Flatley, Peter McVerry, Patricia Casey, Alice Taylor, Vincent Browne, Fintan O Toole, Patricia Scanlan, Sebastian Barry, Seamus Heaney, Francis Brennan, David Norris, John O Shea, Sr Stanislaus.
Download or read book The Teenager In The Greenhouse A psychologist s guide to parenting your teenager written by Graham Ramsden and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2019-02-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you are a parent of a teenager, you will have experienced the frustration and bemusement that their strange and emotional logic creates. But can we really just blame it on their hormones and wiring? This book is based on the research used in a popular and effective nine-week course run by the author aimed at equipping parents with the understanding of why teenagers behave as they do and explores effective tools take away a lot of stress in dealing with them. It looks at how parenting styles and different interactionist models impact on our relationship with these emotional and argumentative beings. The 'teen in the greenhouse' looks at the world through the filter of a teenage brain and uses a range of neurological and socio-psychological models to explore how adults can moderate their interactions with them to make parenting teenagers easier. It explores ways in which the teenage brain uses and misuses emotions to make misguided decisions and how we can help support better decisions being made and reduce arguments. The book provides a thorough and at times humorous exploration of what is happening to the teenage brain and how this impacts on those who help them.
Download or read book Plus It written by Esther Jantzen and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Plus It! is to make any idea and activity a little bit better. It's a way to add value and fun to ordinary home life and regular old chores and to teach kids skills they need to know. As parents use the simple Plus It! techniques and ideas described here, they can turn the time spent with children into lighthearted moments of learning.
Download or read book The No Cry Discipline Solution Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior Without Whining Tantrums and Tears written by Elizabeth Pantley and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2007-05-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Disney’s iParenting Media Award for Best Product Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8 In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems: Tantrums Sleep issues Backtalk Hitting, Kicking and Hair Pulling Sibling fights Swearing Dawdling Public misbehavior Whining ... and more! "Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios--from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming--as guides for readers to fashion their own responses. Pantley is a loving realist who has managed, mirabile dictu, to give disciplinarianism a good, warm name." --Kirkus "While many books on discipline theory are interesting and enlightening, parents often struggle finding a way to apply the theories. Pantley’s advice is practical and specific. If ever trapped on a desert island with a bunch of kids, this is among the most useful books you could bring along." --Tera Schreiber, Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine
Download or read book What All Children Want Their Parents to Know written by Diana Loomans and published by H J Kramer. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do children really want their parents to know, and what do children need to grow into thriving adults? Most parents have a deep desire to do what’s best for their children, but unfortunately kids don’t come with instruction manuals. Diana Loomans and her daughter, Julia Godoy, are here to help. They offer twelve powerful keys to raising a happy, responsible, and fulfilled child, including: Teach by example Allow room to grow and make mistakes Give acknowledgment and show appreciation Use positive discipline with respect Based on a popular poem co-written by this mother-and-daughter team, this book is filled with inspiring stories, ideas, and exercises to use with children of all ages. The authors will help you focus on what’s most important, resulting in a parent-child relationship filled with mutual respect and love.
Download or read book Managing Shyness written by Robert L. Dingman and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Using the Empathy Doll Approach written by Kirstine Beeley and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An experienced practitioner explains how empathy dolls can be used with young girls and boys to help their emotional development or assist with behaviour problems.
Download or read book The Unhappy Child written by Kenneth N. Condrell and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are millions of children in this country who spend most of their days feeling more unhappy than happy, and their parents haven''t a clue as to why. These chronically unhappy children may be on their way to developing a depressive disorder.In this important and completely accessible book, Dr. Kenneth N. Condrell teaches both parents and mental health professionals the ten most common, yet sometimes not-so-obvious causes of childhood unhappiness. More important, he offers practical solutions -- solutions that can help troubled children and protect them from a lifetime of unhappiness.Not only parents but school administrators, guidance and teaching personnel, pediatric office staff, and mental health professionals will greatly benefit from Dr. Condrell''s 35 years of experience helping children with emotional problems.Readers will actually hear from the mouths of children what makes them unhappy. By using actual quotes from kids whom Dr. Condrell has treated, this unusually insightful book bridges the separate worlds of the growing child and parents, so mom and dad can discover the secret pain that children are so good at keeping from them.Parents are often at a loss as to how they can help a child who looks and acts unhappy most of the time or makes statements such as: "I wish I was dead.""I''m going to kill myself.""I hate myself.""Nothing ever good happens to me."This book will make parents aware of the kinds of experiences that cause children to become unhappy. With this knowledge parents can be proactive and protect their sons and daughters from entering a state of unhappiness that places them at risk for becoming depressed and possibly developing into depressed adults.
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