Common Sense Parenting, 4th Ed.
Title | Common Sense Parenting, 4th Ed. PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Burke, PH.D |
Publisher | Boys Town Press |
Total Pages | 377 |
Release | 2015-01-01 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1936734966 |
Using Your Head as Well as Your Heart to Raise School-Aged Children This 4th edition of Common Sense Parenting® offers parents of children ages 6-16 a menu of proven techniques to use while facing family challenges: a teen who’s defiant; siblings who constantly bicker; a child having trouble in school; and parents and kids who don’t communicate or have fun together anymore. Step-by-step strategies aid parents in building good family relationships, preventing and correcting misbehavior, using consequences to improve behavior, teaching self-control, and staying calm. This updated edition shows parents how to approach discipline as positive teaching rather than punishment. As each new parenting technique is introduced, the authors explain each step, provide many clear examples, and give you an action plan for implementing it in your home. Also addressed are topics of special interest - how to deal with school problems, computer misuse, and Internet and social media dangers.
Common Sense Parenting
Title | Common Sense Parenting PDF eBook |
Author | Raymond V. Burke |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Child rearing |
ISBN | 9780938510772 |
To be a good parent today, you need a warm heart and a cool head. Along with unconditional love and respect for your child, you need a logical, workable approach to discipline. This book gives you both. First, it offers suggestions on how to build a close relationship with your child. Second, you'll learn how to reduce problem behavior.
The Giver
Title | The Giver PDF eBook |
Author | Lois Lowry |
Publisher | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | 257 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 054434068X |
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
Title | Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. PDF eBook |
Author | Judy Blume |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 192 |
Release | 2014-04-29 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1481409948 |
Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
Hatchet
Title | Hatchet PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Paulsen |
Publisher | Puffin |
Total Pages | 195 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780140327243 |
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Common Sense Parenting of Toddlers and Preschoolers, 2nd Edition
Title | Common Sense Parenting of Toddlers and Preschoolers, 2nd Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Bridget A. Barnes M.S. |
Publisher | Boys Town Press |
Total Pages | 280 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1934490717 |
Set up your child and yourself for success and learn how discipline can be more about teaching than punishment, and more positive than negative for parents and children. Time- and research-based Common Sense Parenting� skills have been adapted to meet the needs of parents and caregivers of young children ages 2-5. In this second edition, parents are given enhanced parenting skills with updated parent steps and clearer explanations for how and why to use these steps with children: set reasonable expectations based on your child's age, development, and abilities; give your child the nurturing, love, and praise he or she needs to thrive; use a parent's version of "show and tell" to both prevent problems and correct misbehaviour; and create plans for staying calm, for you and your child. Parents will benefit from Boys Town's decades of experience in working with kids to help moms, dads and other caregivers enhance their child-rearing skills and develop a calm, skill-focused approach to discipline.
Evermore
Title | Evermore PDF eBook |
Author | Alyson Noël |
Publisher | St. Martin's Griffin |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2009-02-03 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 1429918683 |
Don't miss Evermore, the first book in Alyson Noël's #1 New York Times bestselling The Immortals series. Enter an enchanting new world where true love never dies. . . After a horrible accident claimed the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people's auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone's entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact and suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school—but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste. Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He's the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in her head—wielding a magic so intense, it's as though he can peer straight into her soul. As Ever is drawn deeper into his enticing world of secrets and mystery, she's left with more questions than answers. And she has no idea just who he really is—or what he is. The only thing she knows to be true is that she's falling deeply and helplessly in love with him.