Families & Parents
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Adoption and Loss: The Hidden Grief 21st Century Edition
Evelyn Robinson, OAM, has written four books about adoption separation and reunion. This is her first book. What becomes of women who are separated from their children by adoption? Why do so many adopted people feel such a strong desire to seek out their families of origin? In what ways are families with adopted children different from other families? This book by Evelyn Robinson provides the answers to these questions and many others.‘Adoption and Loss – The Hidden Grief’ was first published in 2000. A revised edition was published in 2003 and the 21st Century edition was published in 2018.Read more
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101 Inclusive and SEN Science and Computing Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom with these fun and accessible activities for science and computing lessons. Each lesson is tailored to objectives for children working below National Curriculum levels and includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to support children’s understanding and engagement.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus and promoting fine and gross motor skills. The activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. Straightforward and practical, it offers 101 creative classroom activities for teaching Science and Computing to pupils who are working below national curriculum levels, as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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The Science of Parenting Adopted Children: A Brain-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Cultivating Your Child’s Social, Emotional and Moral Development
Explaining how adoptive parents can help their traumatised child develop, it looks at the many different factors that can manifest in trauma, and how parents should respond to them.Read more
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101 Inclusive and SEN English Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom for all with this resource, full of ideas for engaging and accessible English lessons. Each lesson is tailored to objectives for children working below National Curriculum levels and includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to help support children’s understanding.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus and promoting fine and gross motor skills, and the activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. This straightforward and practical book offers you 101 creative classroom activities for teaching English to pupils who are achieving at P Levels 4 – 8, as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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My Dog Eats Plant Pots: Adoption breakdown and its impact on one absolutely normal family
The dream of a family, the inability to create one, after the IVF has failed, led to adoption for this perfectly normal pair. Their lives and that of their faithful canine companion were turned upside down and inside out, when they got astride the rollercoaster of the adoption process. Successfully leaping all the hurdles, being assessed as suitable adopters, they found two children they thought they could care for, and protect, and finally become Mummy and Daddy. The story of two little people, two big people and one slightly eccentric dog. But the fairy tale became a nightmare. When proud people who just didn’t do failure, had to admit defeat, when they finally brought themselves to ask for the help that was promised, and it was not there. How the system is broken, how the blame game begins and then never stops. How those who should be at the centre are rarely put there. A very personal and frank account of adoption failure, disruption, breakdown. It is sad, it is horrid, it hurts. It is happening now, more often than you think, and it needs to be talked about. An important read for potential or existing adopters, or anyone involved with families during or after the adoption process, this challenging account of what can go wrong raises questions over the process of adoption, and more importantly adoption support.Read more
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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons: Revised and Updated Second Edition
* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?
* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?
* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?
* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?
* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you’ll do something wrong?SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.
Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It’s a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here — no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions — just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.
Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.
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A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care: What You Need to Know to Create a Healing Home
A Guide to Therapeutic Child Care provides an easy to read explanation of the secrets that lie behind good quality therapeutic child care.
It describes relevant theories, the ‘invisible’ psychological challenges that children will often struggle with and how to develop a nurturing relationship and build trust. Combining advice with practical strategies, the book also provides specific guidance on how to create safe spaces (both physical and relational) and how to aid the development of key social or emotional skills for children which may be lacking as a result of early trauma.
Written with input from foster carers, the book is an ideal guide for residential child care workers, foster carers, kinship carers, social workers and new adoptive parents.
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The Montessori Toddler: A Parent’s Guide to Raising a Curious and Responsible Human Being
Turn your home into a Montessori home-and become a more mindful, attentive, and easy-going parent. It’s time to change the way we see toddlers.
Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery. With hundreds of practical ideas for every aspect of living with a toddler, here are five principles for feeding your child’s natural curiosity, from “Trust in the child” to “Fostering a sense of wonder.”
Step-by-step ways to cultivate daily routines with ease, like brushing teeth, toilet-training, dealing with siblings, losing the pacifier. Plus learn how to:
* Stay composed when your toddler is not and set limits with love and respect-without resorting to bribes or punishment
* Set up your home and get rid of the chaos
* Create Montessori activities that are just right for your one-to-three-year-old
* Raise an inquisitive learner who loves exploring the world around them
* See the world through your toddler’s eyes and be surprised and delighted by their perspective
* Be your child’s guide-and truly celebrate every stage
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BSL CHRISTMAS SIGNS for Family Learning: British Sign Language Vocabulary (LET’S SIGN BSL)
British Sign Language (BSL) vocabulary for the festive season.Also available on Kindle for easy reference on smart phones and tablets.
This 2018 printed book version has been designed to introduce sign vocabulary to young children and their families.
The signs are divided into 5 colour coded topics of 12 signs per topic which include:
THE NATIVITY
PREPARATIONS
SEASONAL SIGNS
SANTA CLAUS
CHRISTMAS DAY
Each topic begins with a visual summary page of contents rather than just a list of words – so that you can see at a glance what’s included and to also provide a useful reminder page to go back to and test what you have learned.
Part of the Let’s Sign Series of BSL graphics, materials and resources.
60 Christmas related signs plus Handshape Guide and Fingerspelling Alphabet.
Suitable for those teaching and in contact with deaf and special needs BSL and SSE (Sign Supported English) users.
For learners of all ages and abilities including:
• Families • Schools • BSL Level 1 • All who use signs with speech for children and adults with additional language an communication needs.• Baby Signers
There is growing support for the use of sign language with all children, from babies onwards, because the visual and kinaesthetic elements offer alternative channels for language and communication development that can greatly benefit learners and help to create an inclusive environment.
To enhance learning and clarify each sign’s meaning in context, additional pictorial graphics based on the Mulberry Symbols available on www.straight-street.com have been added.
For those wishing to learn more, the Let’s Sign BSL Series of dictionaries, guides, posters, reward stickers, flashcards and downloads offer support for learners of all ages and abilities and can be found on www.DeafBooks.co.uk
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Old Age for Beginners: Hilarious Life Advice for the Newly Ancient
It’s time to embrace the slower pace!
There’s no denying it – you’re OLD, but that comes with a lot of perks. You can say the most outrageous things and somehow get away with it. You can dress however you damn well please. And after learning from so many mistakes, you’re now as wise as you are wizened. It’s your time to recline, and this hilarious book will show you how it’s done.
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Adopting a Child (9th Edition): A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve. BAAF’s best-selling guide describes what adoption means and how to go about it. This edition has been thoroughly revised following the new Adoption Standards for England and contains a new section on step-parent adoption. This is a true beginner s guide, which is regularly revised and updated and includes a full agency list.Read more
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The Wedding Speech Manual: The complete guide to preparing, writing and performing your wedding speech
Do an outstanding wedding speech – in 7 easy steps!
“Thank you very much Mr Peter Oxley, the wedding was yesterday and the speech went down a storm. This book helped me so much, everyone said I nailed it. If anyone out there has a wedding speech to do soon, then forget the rest, this book is the only one you’ll need or want. Thanks again” – Robert Butler
Your proven step by step guide to making an awesome wedding speech.
Whether you’re the father of the bride, groom, best man, bride, mother of the bride, bridesmaid, or just fancy giving a speech… this book will:
* Give you the confidence that you have an excellent, original wedding speech which hits all the right notes
* Get your wedding speech written quickly – so you can focus on practising and all the other things you have to do!
* Show you the tools which the professionals use to master their nerves – so you can deliver your speech confidently, coolly and calmly – and enjoy the big day!The Wedding Speech Manual will take you through:
* What you will be expected to say and do
* How to master your nerves and stop them getting in the way of your successful speech
* How to find loads of entertaining and amusing material to fill your speech
* How to get the audience on your side right from the start
* The key reasons why so many wedding speeches fail – and how to make sure yours doesn’t
* How to write and perfect your speech – a lot quicker and easier than you ever thought possible
* The “dreaded wedding speech etiquette” made simple – what you should and shouldn’t say
* How to deliver your speech as confidently, calmly and impressively as possible
* How to handle all the other stuff which can blind-side a public speaker: like using props, microphones and handling difficult audiencesAbout the author:
A wedding speech veteran with over 25 years of public speaking experience, Peter Oxley is a public speaking coach and trainer, as well as a published author. He has drawn on his extensive experience presenting and teaching in a variety of situations, as well as the secrets of the professionals, to write a book which is relevant to all wedding speakers of all levels of ability and confidence.
Pick up The Wedding Speech Manual now and deliver your perfect wedding speech.
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The Penguin Book of Baby Names
Of all the decisions a new parent makes, choosing that special name is the most significant and the most rewarding.
A new reference book for prospective parents, this clear, helpful and easy-to-use A-Z guide gives you thousands of brilliant suggestions for picking the perfect name for your new arrival. It also includes appendices of the top ten names through the centuries and the most popular celebrity names.
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Adopting a Child: A Guide for People Interested in Adoption
A new, updated edition of this best-selling guide to adoption. This is the book for anyone who has ever thought about adopting a child and wondered what it would involve.Read more
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Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children: A Model for Practice
Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing. This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an accessible explanation of contemporary research in neurobiology and trauma. Featuring tried and tested ideas, with tools and templates illustrated through instructive case studies, the author identifies how life story therapy can be implemented in practice. Finally, the relationships between life story therapy and traditional ‘talking’ therapies are explored. Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children is essential reading for those working with children and adolescents, including social workers, teachers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term carers, psychologists and other professionals.Read more
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The Art of Being a Brilliant Teenager
Calling all teenagers—quit the moaning and start loving life!Don’t be a cliché. Don’t stay in your bedroom grunting and grumbling. How about getting motivated, energized and start making a difference?! The Art of Being A Brilliant Teenager teaches you how to become your very best self—and how to figure out who that is, exactly. The bestselling authors of The Art of Being Brilliant and Be Brilliant Everyday are experts in the art of happiness and positive psychology and, with this new book, you’ll find your way to becoming brilliant at school, work, and life in general. Stay cool under all the pressures you’re facing, and plot a map for the future that takes you wherever it is you want to go. Become proactive, determined, successful and most importantly: happy!
Fact: your life span is about four thousand weeks. It seems like a lot, but it’s not. Complaining about life, homework, parents, and relationships may be normal now, but don’t let it become your defining trait. When you’re forty years old and still moaning, a big chunk of your four thousand weeks have slipped by, and you’re no closer to happiness than you were as a teen. This book is a guide to starting the journey to your ideal life now, instead of wasting time being a drip.
- Discover the real you, and what you want out of life
- Stop moaning and get moving now, while there’s plenty of time
- Lose your bad habits before they become your personality
- Figure out how you want to contribute, and find a way to do it
The bottom line is this: it’s easy to be the average version of yourself, but is that really all you want? Don’t you want to achieve something? Get started now. The Art of Being A Brilliant Teenager helps you figure out where you want to go, and how to get there. So, whether you’re an ambitious teenager, a parent or teacher desperate to turn a down-beat teenager into a ray of positivity and delight, How to Be a Brilliant Teenager is here to help.
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The Baby Signing Bible: Baby Sign Language Made Easy
As confirmed by the American Academy of Pediatrics, infant sign language is a boon for enhancing communication between parents and babies, helping to forge an important bond early in a child’s life. The Baby Signing Bible provides step-by-step instructions for parents and other caregivers, as well as insight into why baby sign language is useful for children of all ages. Kids with special needs can also benefit greatly from this program. Featuring 400 signs, the book covers essential nouns such as milk, verbs such as eat, and descriptors such as more. In addition, The Baby Signing Bible features real-life stories from parents who have successfully signed with their children, along with fun songs and games that help families learn to “sign and sing.” Confidence-building illustrations enhance the basics for mastering vocabulary words.Read more
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Yes, I’m Adopted!
“Yes, adoption makes me special, it means that I am loved…” This brightly colored children’s book illustrates how adoption is brought about by love. Written from a child’s point of view, the rhyming verse takes you through an adoption journey from start to finish. It is perfect for anyone, young or old, whose life has been blessed by adoption.Read more
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101 Inclusive and SEN Maths Lessons: Fun Activities and Lesson Plans for Children Aged 3 – 11 (101 Inclusive and SEN Lessons)
Create an inclusive classroom for all through engaging maths activities such as Shape Bingo, Cake Splat! and Fruity Fractions, all of which have been matched to the UK National Curriculum P Levels 4 – 8. Tailored to the specific P Level, each lesson plan includes a learning objective, the resources needed, the main activity, a plenary and a consolidation activity to help support children’s understanding.
When working with children, and especially those with SEN, lessons need to meet their interests as well as their needs by containing visual stimulus, movement and fine and gross motor skills, and the activities in this book have been specifically designed with this in mind. This straightforward and practical book offers you 101 creative classroom activities for teaching maths to pupils who are achieving at P Levels 4 – 8 and Key Stage One as well as mapping the range of additional skills they will acquire.
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Self Love Journal • Fun Workbook to Build Up Your Confidence & Self Worth: For Young Teen & Tween Girls (Anti Stress Books for Teens)
★★ In gorgeous full color! ★★A Fun Workbook to Help Build Up a Young Teen Girl’s Self-Love, Confidence & Self-Esteem.
Help your tween to start believing in herself and know that she is loved and supported. The Self Love Journal is an empowering workbook to help her find and express her authentic self with prompted journaling and fun creative activities. It will provide hours of entertainment and is filled with engaging activities that she can do alone or together with her friends – away from social media.This is the activity journal you wish you had when you were a young teen.
Perfect for girls aged 11-14
Inside you’ll find:
- Fun Activites to Build up Confidence & Self-Worth
– Explore passions with a mind map
– Celebrate what makes you unique
– Learn how to have a growth mindset
– Better understand your emotions with a colorful daily tracker – ‘A Year in Pixels’
– Write an inspiring letter to your future self
– Rage pages to work through anger
– Problem solve and let go of past regrets
– How to set goals successfully - Relaxing Creative Activites
– Good vibes coloring pages
– Interactive paper crafts to color and cut
– Write down things that bring you joy
– Pages to list your reading, music, movie and TV Series
– Zodiac signs - Self-Care Activites
– Tips on getting enough sleep
– Importance of eating better
– Evening routine planner
– 12 ways to practice mindfulness
For some extra fun there are 100 cats in this journal – see if you can find them all!
Book Features:
- Medium 7 x 10″ (177mm x 254mm) format
- 72 pages of colorful interactive activites and writing prompts
- Durable soft cover
- Ages 11-14 (tweens and younger teens)
Provide your tween with hours of entertainment away from social media while building the necessary skills for healthy self development.
Help her start now and gift the Self Love Journal to your young teen today to encourage her to become the beautiful, strong and confident woman she’s meant to be.
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Proven Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
In this pioneering, practical book for parents, neuroscientist Daniel J. Siegel and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures. Different parts of a child’s brain develop at different speeds and understanding these differences can help you turn any outburst, argument, or fear into a chance to integrate your child’s brain and raise calmer, happier children.
Featuring clear explanations, age-appropriate strategies and illustrations that will help you explain these concepts to your child, The Whole-Brain Child will help your children to lead balanced, meaningful, and connected lives using twelve key strategies, including:
Name It to Tame It: Corral raging right-brain behavior through left-brain storytelling, appealing to the left brain’s affinity for words and reasoning to calm emotional storms and bodily tension.
Engage, Don’t Enrage: Keep your child thinking and listening, instead of purely reacting.
Move It or Lose It: Use physical activities to shift your child’s emotional state.
Let the Clouds of Emotion Roll By: Guide your children when they are stuck on a negative emotion, and help them understand that feelings come and go.
SIFT: Help children pay attention to the Sensations, Images, Feelings, and Thoughts within them so that they can make better decisions and be more flexible.
Connect Through Conflict: Use discord to encourage empathy and greater social success.Read more
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Teach Your Baby to Sign, Revised and Updated 2nd Edition: An Illustrated Guide to Simple Sign Language for Babies and Toddlers – Includes 30 New Pages of Signs and Illustrations!
Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.
You may feel like you can’t possibly be any closer with your young child, but the truth is, you can–through sign language.
The gift of signing helps children communicate well before they have the verbal ability to do so. Whether you have a young child who hasn’t started talking yet, or a child with special needs, signing can open the door to better understanding and connection.
In this revised and updated edition of the original Teach Your Baby to Sign, you’ll find more than 200 easy-to-learn signs–all beautifully illustrated!–that you and your child can use to enhance your communication and understand more fully what your little one wants and needs.
Parenting expert Monica Beyer provides you with 30 new pages of content, including new signs, photographs, and illustrations, as well as an improved layout (popular signs and opposites, such as on/off, listed first in each chapter). You’ll find it easy to navigate and begin signing right away. On top of that, you’ll find tips and activities to keep you and your child motivated, so that sign language becomes a welcome part of your daily life!
Better communication is right around the corner with Teach Your Baby to Sign.
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Brain Gym: Bouger pour apprendre
Vous cherchez à aider votre enfant à améliorer ses capacités d’apprentissage ? Et si le corps était une clé ? L’approche Brain Gym est basée sur l’apprentissage par le mouvement et libère les tensions du corps. En effectuant certains mouvements, il est possible de stimuler nos compétences afin d’améliorer l’écoute, la lecture, l’écriture, la concentration, la logique des maths, l’organisation, la créativité et la confiance en soi. En faisant du Brain Gym, nous aidons nos neurones à travailler ! Un zoom sur le cerveau pour mieux comprendre son fonctionnement et accompagner votre enfant dans ses apprentissages. Des exercices ludiques et facilement réalisables afin de l’aider à atteindre ses objectifs. Des enchaînements de mouvements pour accroître les potentiels de votre enfant : l’écoute attentive, la créativité, la communication… Aidez votre enfant à se connaître, à prendre confiance en lui et à s’épanouir !Read more
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Baby Sign Language: For Hearing Babies
Open the door to greater communication with your preverbal child through Baby Sign Language. This practical, illustrated guide shows how simple, easy-to-remember gestures can be used by you and your baby or toddler–to convey thoughts, needs, questions, and answers. It’s easy, and babies absolutely love it!Baby-signing takes just a few hours to learn, and can be taught to babies as young as six months of age. In this volume, workshop instructor Karyn Warburton presents more than 200 baby-friendly signs covering a wide variety of subjects that little ones will love to learn and use, and will develop their cognitive skills, cut down on communication frustration, and create a stronger bond. This delightful, easy-to-use book features:
– Clear, step-by-step instructions–based on the Baby Talk workshop format
– Photographs and drawings to illustrate each sign
– Baby-centered sign language activities, including songs and storytelling
– Signs graded for difficulty levels
– Tips on how to introduce and reinforce key signsRead more
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Welcoming a New Brother or Sister Through Adoption
Adoption is a big step which can change the whole dynamics of the family. It is crucial that parents understand the impact it has when new sibling relationships are forged and an adoptee becomes a part of the family.
Welcoming a New Brother or Sister through Adoption is a comprehensive yet accessible guide that describes the adoption process and the impact of adoption on every member of the family, including the adopted child. It prepares families to have realistic expectations and equips them with knowledge to deal with a host of situations that may arise, addressing difficult questions head-on: ‘Did we make the right choice by adopting?’, ‘How is this affecting our ‘typical’ children?’, ‘Will our adopted son or daughter heal?’ are explored and solutions discussed in detail. All this is accompanied with real life stories and direct quotes from children, which make it a realistic and insightful resource.
This book is vital reading for adoptive families and professionals who work with them including social workers, counselors and psychologists.
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The Montessori Book for Babies and Toddlers: 200 creative activities for at-home to help children from ages 0 to 3 – grow mindfully and playfully while supporting independence…
How to support your child’s development with Montessori education towards independence and self-confidence through playing with 200 practical exercises at home!
The foundation for your child’s later development lies in the baby and toddler ages. But without professional help, this can be difficult in stressful everyday life. As parents, we know this all too well.
This book offers the solution:
You can help your child learn coordination, build a large vocabulary, and develop tremendous confidence through selected Montessori activities. Your child will benefit from this for the rest of their life!
As the phase between the ages of 0 and 3 is incredibly important, this book starts right at birth. This allows you to sustainably aid your child’s development with creative Montessori activities.
Your child will learn autonomously and from their own experiences.
That way, your child’s autonomy, and confidence will grow immensely. They will then benefit from this independent way of learning at school and later in the work environment.
The activities are structured according to Montessori and designed in a modern way. They aim to support your child in exploring the world full of joy and in a playful fashion while being protected from over stimulation, stress, and pressure. This prevents severe mood swings or feeling overwhelmed in the long term.
This book also includes frequently asked questions (FAQs) from other parents and an introductory theoretical part. As parents, you will learn how to best support your child on their journey.
An overview of your advantages:
- Your child will learn coordination, language, shapes, colors, and much more through play with great Montessori activities and become independent and confident at an early age.
- Specialization: The book is precisely adapted to babies and toddlers and can thus promote your child’s development in the most targeted way. This maximizes the numerous benefits in terms of independence, confidence, and sensory development.
- The book trains all of your child’s senses, which promotes independence, and your child learns to explore the world more and more independently. You will be noticeably relieved by the increased independence your child will display daily.
- In addition to the activities, the book contains a collection of important FAQs about Montessori, including: How can I prepare my surroundings before giving birth? Are Montessori toys expensive? How can I implement Montessori in my stressful everyday life?
- Do you want to develop Montessori activities yourself? This book offers valuable suggestions: Which exercises are suitable for what age? Which materials should I choose? How can I present toys in an appealing and clear way?
Click “Buy Now” in the top-right corner and support your child in playfully discovering the world and realizing its potential!
Your child will thank you.
Suitable for parents, parents-to-be, childminders, and nurseries.
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PUT A WET PAPER TOWEL ON IT: The Weird and Wonderful World of Primary Schools
THE SENSATIONAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A heart-warming and hilarious look at life in the classroom from the teachers who host the most popular UK education podcast, Two Mr Ps in a Pod(Cast).
‘’Education’s answer to Adam Kay … Lee and Adam Parkinson are doing for teaching what he did for medicine.’ The Times
Have you ever wondered what really happens during the day when your precious little angels are at school?
In this book, The Two Mr Ps will take you on a side-splittingly funny journey through the weird and wonderful world of primary schools. It will also explore the pressures of modern-day teaching, revealing exactly what it takes to wrangle a chaotic classroom (or seven) on a weekly basis. From the absolute characters found in the staffroom to school-trip mishaps and everything else inbetween, Put A Wet Paper Towel on It is a must-read for teachers and parents alike.
So sit up straight, four legs on your chair, fingers on lips and get ready to take a trip down memory lane. And remember – when in doubt, just put a wet paper towel on it.
Lee Parkinson and Adam Parkinson’s book ‘This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 25-07-2022.
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Sparkle’s Story: Thrown Away Children
Louise gets a frantic call to take in a damaged and destructive young girl. Separated from her siblings, Sparkle is hostile and angry.
A short while after settling in, Sparkle begins to identify as pansexual. A revolution is underway in the Allen household, with Sparkle’s transition motivating all of the young people to explore what becoming an adult means for them.
But it’s Sparkle’s escalating behaviour that causes concern.
Discovering a dark fact about Sparkle’s birth and the shocking events that the children in her house were part of, Louise is desperate for more help – and not just for the child in her care. As Sparkle’s erratic and violent behaviour increases, Louise finds herself and her homelife under serious threat.
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The Teens’ Workbook to Self Regulate: Empowering Teenagers to Handle Emotions with Success through Coping Strategies and CBT Exercises (Successful Parenting)
On the surface, you see a highly sensitive and irritable teenager. But look closer, and you will notice a kid showing signs of emotional distress.
Research shows that modern teenagers—our beloved Gen Zers—experience similar stress levels as adults. However, unlike adults who have been exposed to various coping mechanisms, young people are often confused about ways to cope with stress.
Now more than ever, parents are stepping up and teaching their teens how to psychologically equip themselves for modern challenges. After all, we can’t leave it up to school teachers or social media influencers to prepare our children for the world!
But as much as teens need the support, they desire to work through their problems, at their own pace, in their own time.
The combination of psychotherapy and self-directed learning is an effective way for teenagers to learn about healthy coping strategies, in their own time, in the comfort of their bedrooms.
Without any external pressure, teens are able to study and practice various mind and body techniques and create their own toolkits of useful skills to manage stress and anxiety.
The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate is a valuable resource that introduces modern teenagers to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), a form of psychotherapy created to develop emotional regulation and behavioral modification skills.
The workbook is broken down into two parts: cognitive techniques and behavioral techniques, and provides teens with exercises that reinforce the following skills:- Understanding the impact of negative thinking in shaping beliefs, motivations, and worldviews.
- Learning how to identify, describe, and manage strong emotions without hurting themselves or others.
- Finding healthy alternative strategies to cope with stress and anxiety without succumbing to urges.
- Knowing how and when to stop, breathe, and return to a normal state when feeling overwhelmed.
These skills—and many more—are taught over 42 age-appropriate exercises, which are designed to help teens between the ages of 13 and 19 reflect on their personal life experiences and examine their own thoughts and behaviors.
The workbook will not only serve as a companion for your child during stressful life events but will also help them prepare for future challenges that require mental and emotional resilience.
So, what are you still waiting for? Make an investment in your teen’s mental health, and get yourself a copy of The Teens’ Workbook to Self-Regulate, today!Read more
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Sign with Your Baby: How to Communicate with Infants Before They Can Speak
Trusted by more than 2,500,000 parents, medical professionals, teachers, childcare professionals . . . and babies . . . worldwide! Sign2Me Early Learning’s Best Seller, “Sign with your Baby” is truly the Grandfather of all ASL Baby Sign Language programs! This is the program that launched the ASL Baby Sign Language revolution. This book teaches hearing parents how to use simple sign language gestures to communicate with their hearing infants before their infants can speak. Joseph Garcia uses anecdotes, practical guidelines and humor to explain the benefits and method for taking advantage of this unique form of early communication. He will help you recognize when your child is receptive to learning. He recommends which signs to teach first and shares ideas for games that can be fun and useful when introducing new signs. The book is also a useful reference with 145 clearly illustrated signs, enabling you to choose and teach the signs that will be most beneficial to you and your child. This book is also included in a separate “package” edition called the SIGN with your BABY Complete Learning Kit – which is comprised of the book, 60 minute training video and quick reference guide.Read more
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In On It: What Adoptive Parents Would Like You To Know About Adoption. A Guide for Relatives and Friends
In On It is the book for the grandparents and best friends, colleagues and neighbors, aunts and uncles, teachers and caregivers of contemporary adoptive families. It offers advice, information and insights into contemporary adoption — especially for readers who are not themselves adoptive parents. In On It explains the decision-making processes that lead parents to adopt, the adoption process itself, and the important roles of loss and grief in adoption. It offers suggestions for appropriate adoption language and talking about adoption; overviews of transracial, open and older child adoption; guidance for readers who will find themselves representing and speaking on behalf of adoptive families; as well as illustrative anecdotes, suggestions from adoptive parents, and lists of “Ways You Can Help.” In On It extends an invitation into adoption–it is a friendly, welcoming and highly useful adoption resource.Read more
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Adulting: Life Skills For Teens: Life Skills 101 and Other Stuff Teens and Young Adults Are Expected to Know But Never Learned in School
Are you a teenager who feels like you’re not quite prepared for the responsibilities of adulthood?
Whether you’re about to move out of your parent’s home or have been given the boot–there are a few things that you should know before the door hits you on your way out.
So, if you want a life skills 101 guide that also covers the other stuff teens and young adults are expected to know but were never taught in school, then you have just found it!
You may not think that washing your red and white clothes together would have repercussions, but that’s why this book is here; to make sure you never have to live that moment of terror when you discover your now pink wardrobe.
Here’s a heads-up of what you will find inside Adulting: Life Skills for Teens:- Practical tips for managing your finances, including budgeting and saving strategies.
- Effective communication skills for building stronger relationships with family, friends, and colleagues.
- Proven strategies for developing healthy habits, including exercise, nutrition, and self-care.
- Tips for succeeding in the workplace, including job hunting, interviewing, and networking.
- Strategies for managing stress and anxiety in a fast-paced world.
You may be sitting there thinking that this sounds like a load of bull, but the fact is, everyone messes up when they start adulting. The only difference is that they never had this book to streamline the process for them before.
The purpose of Adulting: Life Skills for Teens is not to tell you what choices to make or which paths to take, but it will paint a better picture of what outcomes you can expect based on those choices. Sort of like an information center?
You will make mistakes, but at least you won’t be alone, and this book will help you through the process of fixing them so that you can turn them into a learning curve.What better way to learn than from the master of mistakes? (Which is me, just in case that wasn’t clear.)
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The Complete Wedding Planner For Brides: Wedding To Do List Planner | Perfect Tools For Journaling, Scheduling, Organizing, Budget Planner, Checklists, Worksheets To Plan Wedding
This beautiful wedding planner is perfect for planning your dream wedding, and makes the perfect gift for any bride to be!
When you dive into this wedding planner, you realize how easy it is to plan a wedding because you used this planner!
You will find many tools used in this wedding planner:
Details:
- 8.5 x 11 Inches
- Soft Matte Paperback Cover
- Black and White Interior
Inside you’ll find the following pages to keep you organized for your big day:
- Budgeting
- Checklists
- Setting up Appointments
- Writing Down Dates
- Weekly Planning
- Guest Listing
and much much more!
Get ready for the stress-free planning of your wedding day!
Get your own copy today!
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50th Gold Wedding Anniversary Guest Book (Hardcover): A simple elegant 50th Wedding Anniversary Guest Book For Guests to sign and leave messages and words of love
Celebrating a 50th Wedding anniversary is a wonderful event to share with family and friends. You will be able to capture and keep those special memories forever with this beautiful Guest Book.
This elegant hardcover keepsake guest book is sure to be a lovely addition to celebrate your 50th Golden Wedding Anniversary.
A CLASSIC KEEPSAKE: Keep sweet memories, well wishes, and personalized notes safe in this premium hardbound guestbook to revisit for years to come. This guest book is a one-of-a-kind memento made for your special day.
- It features 100 pages for guests to leave their name and their thoughts or wishes.
- This Guest Book is a Hardcover which makes it easy to display on a table.
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Learning WalkThrus: Students & Parents – better learning, step by step
LEARNING WALKTHRUs is a visual guide to key aspects of learning and studying at home and at school. It features 70+ five-step techniques devised by Tom Sherrington and illustrated by Oliver Caviglioli, with guest authors including Sarah Cottingham, Peps Mccrea, Sara Milne Rowe, Christopher Such, Emma Turner and Jennifer Webb.
Students: this book is for you. It’s a guide to how we learn and how to study effectively, to help you make the most of your time at school.
Parents: this book is also for you. We hope it will support you in the vital role you play in your children’s education.Sections include: How we learn; In the classroom; Feedback and improvement; Study habits and techniques; Reading and writing; Independent learning; Learning in subjects.
Tom and Oliver are the creators of the internationally successful Teaching WalkThrus series, comprising three volumes of five-step instructional coaching techniques and a range of online resources. For more information visit www.walkthrus.co.uk
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Navigating The World of Social Media: A Writing Prompt Book for Teenagers and Young Adults
An awesome and inspiring writing prompts book and journal to help convey to both teenagers and young adults alike about social media, it can be a powerful tool for communication, connection, and self-expression, it’s important to use it responsibly and with awareness of the potential consequences. Social media can have both positive and negative effects on mental health, relationships, and self-esteem, and it is important for teenagers to be mindful of how they are using social media and how it is affecting them. It’s also important to recognize the impact that social media can have on others, and to use it in a way that is respectful, supportive, and inclusive.
Ultimately, the goal is to encourage young people to use social media in a way that enhances their lives and the lives of others, while being conscious of its potential risks and limitations. This book includes 80 pages of prompted questions to spark one’s curiosity and interests, along with 20 journal pages for thoughts and ideas, point of view considerations.Read more
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ADHD For Dummies
Demystify ADHD with simple explanations of the basics and the latest research
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most globally prevalent neurodevelopmental disorders. ADHD For Dummies explores living a healthy and fulfilling life with ADHD, from seeking diagnosis to choosing the right treatment path for you or your loved one. You’ll read about the latest in ADHD research, equipping you with valuable knowledge as you care for a child with ADHD or explore your own ADHD symptoms as an adult. This book provides the answers you need on how to deal with day-to-day challenges at home, school, and work, and how to find support and counseling. With appropriate management, anyone can live a great life with ADHD.
- Learn what ADHD is―and what it isn’t
- Get up to date with the latest information on ADHD, including medications and non-medical treatments
- Find the right professional to help you get the support you or your children need
This is the perfect Dummies guide for both parents of children with ADHD and adults with ADHD looking to learn more. Teachers, counselors, and therapists―this is also a great resource to educate yourself and your clients.
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Teach Your Baby to Sign Deck: Illustrated Card Deck Featuring Simple Sign Language for Babies
From the best selling book, Teach Your Baby to Sign by Monica Beyer, enjoy a card deck that makes teaching your baby to sign easy!
You can hear–your baby can hear–so what’s the deal? Every parent knows how frustrated babies become when they can’t make themselves clear to their families. But now, before they can talk, they can tell you what they mean–with signs!
Signing has taken the parenting world by storm, but why has it? Every parent is eager to give their baby the best possible upbringing, the least frustration, and the best head start for achieving in today’s competitive society. Research (funded by the National Institutes of Health) has found that signing babies: talk sooner and have larger vocabularies; have stronger parent/child bonds; have less frustration, crying and tantrums; show more interest in books; engage in more sophisticated play; and have higher IQ scores. Now, what parent doesn’t want that?
Carry this card deck anywhere and you can have a wide selection to choose from, along with stage-by-stage guidance so they’ll know which signs to teach first and which to add as they and their baby become progressively more skilled and comfortable with signing.
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Learn Sign Language in a Hurry: Grasp the Basics of American Sign Language Quickly and Easily
“I love you.”
“What can I get you?”
“Let’s take a walk.”Wanting to say simple things like these but not being able to is frustrating and dishearteningbut learning how to communicate can be easy and fun! This book is a basic guide to the alphabet, vocabulary, and techniques it takes to connect using American Sign Language. Whether signing out of necessity or learning for the sake of growing, you will enjoy this practical primer. After reading this book, you will be able to use American Sign Language in a social, educational, or professional setting.
Whether the goal is to communicate with hearing-impaired grandparent, a child with special needs in school, or an infant, people learn sign language for many different reasons. Easy to read and referenceand complete with images and examples of common signsthis basic guide allows you to make a meaningful connection that’s otherwise impossible.
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Baby Sign Language: A Fun and Simple Guide to Early Communication
Start signing with your baby today! This comprehensive book makes signing easy with photos of real kids using 100+ signs, plus expert advice on teaching your baby to communicate early.
In Baby Sign Language, Mary Smith—ASL interpreter and founder of popular sign language education business Sign ’n Grow—shares everything you need for learning how to sign with your 0–3-year-old.
Maybe you’ve seen it online or remember a friend and their baby signing MILK or MORE. No matter why you’re interested, what you’ve heard is true: signing is one of the best ways to kickstart communication. When your baby can sign, they’ll get frustrated less—and you will be able to bond more closely.
At the heart of the book are a broad array of photographed signs that are easy to understand thanks to the real kids signing them. You’ll find everything your baby wants to tell you, including:
- Mealtime Signs: Milk, Food, More, All Done, Drink, Water, Please, Thank You, Yes, No, Hungry, Thirsty
- Daytime Signs: Help, Open, Up, Pacifier, Light, Bath, Diaper, Blanket, Bed, Sleep, Morning, Night, Potty, Poop, and A Variety of Clothing Signs
- Playtime Signs: Again, Read, Book, Play, Toy, Dance, Music, Ball, Try, Friend, Take Turns, Gentle, Dog, Cat
- Family Signs: Love, Mommy, Daddy, Baby, Sister, Brother, Grandma, Grandpa,
- How Baby Feels Signs: Feel, Happy, Silly, Sad, Angry, Scared, Frustrated, Sleepy, Hurt
- Outdoors Signs: House, Walk, Outside, Playground, Grass, Tree, Car, Airplane, Sun, Moon, Stars, Rain, Snow
- …And many more!
With songs, stories, and games to encourage learning, and insider tips to boost your baby’s language development, this is truly an all-in-one guide for helping your baby tell you their wants and needs before they start to talk.
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