Designed to be shared around the table, this book presents a practical, ready-to-implement battleplan for promoting a healthy, family-centered lifestyle. This practical handbook is packed with creative ideas--from simple and inexpensive to the more exotic--for everyday activities, weekend outings, and active family vacations.

How family video game play promotes intergenerational communication, connection, and learning. Video games have a bad reputation in the mainstream media. They are blamed for encouraging social isolation, promoting violence, and creating tensions between parents and children. In this book, Sinem Siyahhan and Elisabeth Gee offer another view. They show that video games can be a tool for connection, not isolation, creating opportunities for families to communicate and learn together. Like smartphones, Skype, and social media, games help families stay connected. Siyahhan and Gee offer examples: One family treats video game playing as a regular and valued activity, and bonds over Halo. A father tries to pass on his enthusiasm for Star Wars by playing Lego Star Wars with his young son. Families express their feelings and share their experiences and understanding of the world through playing video games like The Sims, Civilization, and Minecraft. Some video games are designed specifically to support family conversations around such real-world issues and sensitive topics as bullying and peer pressure. Siyahhan and Gee draw on a decade of research to look at how learning and teaching take place when families play video games together. With video games, they argue, the parents are not necessarily the teachers and experts; all family members can be both teachers and learners. They suggest video games can help families form, develop, and sustain their learning culture as well as develop skills that are valued in the twenty-first century workplace. Educators and game designers should take note.

Learn how to work with and relate to the family of each child in an early childhood education program. Includes ideas about transforming the way schools and programs relate to families - each one according to their unique assets and needs with the goal of enriching and enlivening the school community and ensuring better outcomes for each child and the entire program. It will emphasize strategies for getting to know each family the way you get to know an individual person, and learn about their interests, their strengths, their style of interacting and their needs/challenges to encourage programs to move away from one-size-fits-all approaches to family engagement.

This book, written for scholars and practitioners alike, describes theoretical and research advances in the myriad complicated images of life for children and parents in families affected by divorce, remarriage, and single parenting.

See Jane Win for Girls A Smart Girl's Guide to Success Have you ever seen successful women and wondered, ''How did they get to be that way? What did they do when they were kids? How did they feel? What kinds of experiences did they have? How did they become so confident, capable, and strong?'' Dr. Sylvia Rimm wondered the same things. She decided to get answers - from women themselves. She and her daughters surveyed more than 1,000 successful women, then wrote two books for adults: See Jane Win and How Jane Won. Those books are helping many parents raise amazing daughters. But you don't have to wait for someone to help you. You can help yourself. This book shows you how. It's full of ideas you can start using now to shape your own future. Look inside to find: Specific, practical ''I CAN'' tips for following your dreams, building healthy self-esteem, using your brainpower, improving your social smarts, forming new interests and talents, exploring the world, dealing with big changes, finding role models and mentors, learning and growing with your family, and more.....Quick quizzes and questions that keep you on track.....Fill-in-the-blank charts and pages that help you learn more about yourself.....True ''I CAN'' stories from kids and teens.....Inspiring words from real women - teachers, attorneys, astronauts, musicians, physicians, photographers, publishers, congresswomen, businesswomen, radio announcers, TV news anchors, homemakers, and others......A ''Digging Deeper'' discussion guide to share with caring adults.....And more! Even if you think you're ordinary or average, the truth is, you're full of potential. This book helps you make the most of it. Because anything's possible when you're an ''I CAN'' girl.

PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.