Childhood Development Learning

Ready to begin homeschooling? Let hundreds of experienced homeschoolers help you on your way! Whether you're a new homeschooler, or just looking for a better way to learn with your children, this guide offers the answers and encouragement you need to succeed.

Certain to appeal to all parents, whether they are expecting or raising their first new addition, in-the-trenches veterans, or empty-nesters, this delightful Chicken Soup book offers a collection of inspiring and entertaining stories that relate to the triumphs, tribulations, challenges, and joys of raising a family.

"Send Us a Boy, We'll Send You a Cowboy!" is the slogan of the Box Canyon Boys Camp. But for the nail biters, thumb suckers, and teeth grinders, the cast-away offspring of parents who are busy traveling, being divorced, remarrying, and garnering fortunes, it's just another place to face rejection. Until Cotton.

Children are born curious, creative, and wired to learn - and we value those traits in adults! Still, as our children grow up, we often insist they change to fit into the education system, where curiosity is replaced by curricula, creativity by conformity, and learning by memorizing. But if you’d rather nurture your children’s curiosity, creativity, and love of learning, let me introduce you to the world of unschooling.

After publishing the New York Times best seller The Essential 55, award-winning teacher Ron Clark took his rules on the road and traveled to schools and districts in 49 states. He met amazing teachers, administrators, students, parents, all kinds of people involved in bringing up great kids. In the best of these people, he noticed the same qualities that he'd observed in so many of the teachers, children, and parents he'd worked with during his time teaching in North Carolina and Harlem.

Are you an educator eager to bridge the gap between mindfulness and brain science in your teaching? A parent seeking effective strategies to navigate the complexities of raising a teenager? Or perhaps you're a teenager yourself, looking for ways to harness mindfulness to tackle academic and personal challenges? If any of these resonate with you, Mindful Learning is the essential guide you've been searching for.

Poco più di dieci anni fa, quando uscì per la prima volta, questo libro – cui seguì anche un blog, tuttora attivo – divenne subito un piccolo culto, amatissimo dai futuri genitori. Il racconto sincero di una mamma alle prese con miti da smantellare e riti da seguire, mese per mese, dal "D-Day"(il giorno delle doglie!) e per tutto il primo anno di vita del bambino, è uno slalom tra errori, fatiche, scoperte e gratificazioni – a volte mescolati tutti assieme – nel tentativo di "trovare una quadra" e ricomporre l'immagine di sé andata in frantumi con il parto.

Nearly Everything I Learned in Kindergarten Screwed Me Up! takes you back to where the problems began, starting on day one of kindergarten. With honor and respect to the underrecognized and underappreciated educators in our lives, you'll take personal responsibility for overextended lessons that were never intended for life beyond the classroom. Concise, impactful, and highly entertaining chapters will help you deconstruct, one by one, 18 problematic, catastrophic lessons that no longer apply.

Öğrencilerin ayaklarının geri geri gittiği okullarda iyi dersler işlemenin yolunun strateji, teknik, yöntem, ipuçları bilmekten geçtiğini yıllar içinde deneyimleyerek öğrendim. Öğrenmek kadar öğrendiklerini paylaşmanın da değerli olduğuna inanıyorum. Bu kitap, öğretmenlik, yöneticilik günlerimden ve eğitimcinin eğitimini yaptığım yıllar içinde cebimde biriktirdiklerimden oluşuyor. Kitabı dinlerken kendinizi içinde bulacağınız başlıkların hiçbiri reçete ya da can simidi değil, bunu şimdiden söyleyebilirim. Dinleyecekleriniz sadece bir eğitimcinin deneyim kırıntıları.

Conocer los temperamentos de las personas nos abre las puertas de su mundo interior. Si estás interesado en tu crecimiento personal, el conocimiento de los temperamentos puede ser una primera puerta para empezar a contestar estas preguntas que nos acompañan toda la vida. Nos puede ayudar a comprender a la pareja, a los hijos y a las amistades, a entender por qué las relaciones son tan complejas y a veces las diferencias nos unen.

Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child's academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment—while not overwhelming you in the process.

Para los padres que claman por soluciones claras…y ¡al grano!, Rosa Barocio nos ofrece un libro único con ayudas prácticas para situaciones que son “el pan de todos los días”. Señala actitudes que lastiman y muestra nuevas maneras respetuosas para poner límites y orientar desde un acercamiento amoroso.

The NeuroWhereAbouts Guide puts at parents' fingertips the developmentally appropriate prevention science they need to set children up for success from elementary school to college. Filled with tools, activities, contracts, and scripted talks for 18 high-risk behavior topics, such as alcohol, marijuana, technology overuse, vaping, pornography, body image issues, self-injury, suicide, dating violence, risky sexual behavior, and more.

When Beating the Odds: Raising Academically Successful African American Males appeared in 1998, it was hailed as "a crucial book" (Baltimore Sun) and "undoubtedly one of the most important tools the African American parent can possess" (Kweisi Mfume, President NAACP). Now, in response to enormous demand, the authors turn their attention to African American young women. Statistics indicate that African American females, as a group, fare poorly in the United States.

We all know what is wrong with today’s schools - or do we? Tracy Kidder spent a year in a fifth grade class in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The teacher is excellent, but something else is very wrong. Kidder skillfully presents the problems and leaves the listener to ponder the solutions.

It all began as an attempt by Debbie Stier to help her high-school age son, Ethan, who would shortly be studying for the SAT. Aware that Ethan was a typical teenager (i.e., completely uninterested in any test) and that a mind-boggling menu of test-prep options existed, she decided - on his behalf - to sample as many as she could to create the perfect SAT test-prep recipe.

This is a comprehensive guide for quality school admissions including the Ivy League. It is also a parenting method in direct contrast with the tiger mother, point for point. I have detailed information regarding test prep, extra curricular activities, how to choose schools, counselors, high schools, and much more. It has 375 references, a full resource guide that will save the listener hundreds of hours, an index, illustrations, tables, charts, etc.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Emotional regulation, also known as self-regulation, is a critical life skill that affects children from a young age. It occurs when children struggle to manage their emotions effectively, causing outbursts, tantrums, and difficulties in social interactions. While there are common solutions to manage emotional regulation, such as time-outs or rewards, targeted activities can play a significant role in fostering emotional development in 5 and 6-year-olds. Now, let's find out about how these specific elements of emotional regulation activities can stop emotional outbursts!

Use Your Words introduces the art of creative nonfiction to women who want to give written expression to their lives as mothers. Written by award-winning teacher and writer, Kate Hopper, this book will help women find the heart of their writing, learn to use motherhood as a lens through which to write the world, and turn their motherhood stories into art. Each chapter of Use Your Words focuses on an element of craft and contains a lecture, a published essay, and writing exercises that will serve as jumping-off points for the readers' own writing.