It provides guidance on why telling your child is so important, what to tell your child and when, how adopted children and their birth parents feel, and where you can get more help.

This comprehensive book also includes expanded information on discussing adoption with older children, adoption support services, dealing with drug abuse in a child’s past, contact issues, foster carers who adopt, ‘mixed’ families containing adopted, fostered and birth children, step-families and the variety of brother and sister combinations that can occur.

Rich with practical ideas and the experiences of adoptive parents and adopted children, this book contains everything adoptive parents need to know about communicating with their children.

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* 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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“Teen Muscle” is a guide to bodybuilding for teenagers, designed to provide a safe and effective approach to achieving fitness goals. This book covers all aspects of bodybuilding, including nutrition, workout plans, proper lifting techniques, mental toughness, and injury prevention.

The guide begins with an introduction to the importance of bodybuilding for teenagers, followed by a discussion of the science of muscle building. It then covers nutrition for teen bodybuilders, providing a comprehensive list of healthy foods and supplements to support muscle growth and recovery.

The guide also includes a section on creating a workout plan, with examples of effective workout routines for teens. Essential exercises for teen bodybuilders are discussed, along with proper lifting techniques and guidance on how to track progress and overcome plateaus.

In addition, the guide provides advice on rest and recovery, overcoming plateaus, and the use of supplements for teen bodybuilders. It also covers the pros and cons of training at home versus in a gym, and the benefits of bodybuilding for sports performance.

The book concludes with a discussion on maintaining a bodybuilding lifestyle beyond teenage years, with tips on adapting workouts, prioritizing recovery, and seeking professional guidance.

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