Family Learning

Do you have a child who struggles with reading, emotional control, or concentration? These children are completely misunderstood. Here I share the secrets I discovered to help millions.

For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don't, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you're facing graduation, a new job, a new baby, marriage, any change in your life, expected or not, the wisdom that Mister Rogers offers can contribute mightily to the grace with which you handle the change. It all comes down to knowing we're valuable, and that we're worthy of that value. As Fred would say, "You don't have to be anything more than who you are right now."

Being a teenager is both wonderful and challenging. In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, author Sean Covey applies the proven wisdom of the 7 Habits to teens and the tough issues and life-changing decisions they face. In an entertaining style, Cove provides a step-by-step guide to help teens improve self-image, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve their goals, get along with their parents, and much more.

Discover the essential skills to survive and thrive in a worst-case scenario event. Prepare yourself, provide for your family, and protect your home with this world-class audiobook on disaster preparedness.

In The Homework Myth, nationally known educator and parenting expert Alfie Kohn systematically examines the usual defenses of homework - that it promotes higher achievement, "reinforces" learning, and teaches study skills and responsibility. None of these assumptions, he shows, actually passes the test of research, logic, or experience.

Learn how to create and tell spellbinding oral stories for the special children in your life with The Storyteller's Kit Box. Children’s author and story weaver Judy Hubbard shows how easy it is to build magical stories using a simple four-step approach - character, setting, action, and resolution - and an armada of great story themes. The Storyteller’s Kit Box provides helpful tips on story delivery, instructions for creating props bags and story boxes...and sample stories to get you started.

In this story from India, a farmer's three lazy sons don't want to work. They sit around dreaming of making a lot of gold. When their mother tells them of gold buried in a field, they ask her how to bring the gold to the surface. Through clever suggestions, their mother explains how to thed the fields as they discover the true riches offered by hard work. Illustrated by Tom Wrenn.

In 1952, April is seven years old and adores her big sister, Annabel. But Annabel is failing her math class and desperately needs help with a tough math problem. April decides to write to Albert Einstein, asking him to give a hand.

The best way to prepare the next generation for the future is to emphasize the value of communication, cooperation, initiative, and unique, individual talent - for nothing undermines confidence more than comparison. Whether in the classroom or at home, it is never too early to start applying leadership skills to everyday life. Drawing on the many techniques and examples that have already seen incredible success around the world, The Leader in Me shows how easy it is to incorporate these skills into daily life.

Positive Self-Parenting Solutions is made for teenagers struggling and dealing with depression. It begins by emphasizing the importance of mindfulness and healing the post-traumatic stress in one's life and the numerous benefits.

We’ve got a puppy! The most exciting day of your life, right? Perhaps not, unless you know how to raise, care for, and train your puppy, making it a disciplined and valued member of your family. While raising your puppy requires a wide range of considerations, it is a fun and rewarding journey. From selecting the right breed to suit your family dynamics, to knowing what your puppy needs for it to have a healthy and long life, having a puppy can be an enriching and bonding experience for your family.

With all the pressures that educators are under, it's easy to cut corners when it comes time to write IEPs. The Intentional IEP equips you with the resources you need to feel confident in approaching IEPs the right way, including prioritizing the many competing demands you face so you can find the capacity to show up for your students.

Can’t seem to wrangle your child to follow simple instructions? Sick of yelling at sullen adolescents to get your way? Concerned they’re falling behind at school? Educator, expert pedagogue, and founder of a leading learning center in the heart of London, Bukky Ekine-Ogunlana has dedicated her life to helping struggling parents. Now she’s here to share eye-opening tips and systems that will take all the guesswork out of life’s most challenging job. The Child Development and Positive Parenting Master Class 2-in-1 Bundle is a complete resource to help any parent, guardian, or teacher.

Raising an autistic child can mean an emotional ride - ups and downs, emergencies and victories. But imagine the roller coaster of having not one autistic child, but three. Follow Karen Pellett as she spills her Spectrum Mom secrets and learn how to get your family over surviving and into thriving.

Suzuki teacher and author, Christine Goodner, explores what it takes to make music lessons work in our busy, modern lives in her first book, Beyond the Music Lesson: Habits of Successful Suzuki Families. Using exclusive interviews, current research, and Goodner’s own experience as a student, parent, and teacher, this book gives practical advice, specific ideas, and big-picture concepts sure to help every parent who listens to it.

The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders. The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the unused planner, the test he didn't know about. Sound familiar? When the disorganized child meets the departmentalized structure of middle school, everything can fall apart. Even the academically successful child will start to falter if she misses deadlines, loses textbooks, or can't get to class on time.

Edna Pontellier is married, twenty-eight, and at a crossroads in her life. She is passionate and artistic but has no one who understands her deep yearnings. She jumps at the chance to spend a summer away from her husband and the heat of New Orleans at a small coastal retreat.

For too long, parents and teachers have focused on identifying and "fixing" kids' weaknesses to improve academic performance. Passionately written and informed by Fox's 25 years of experience, Your Child's Strengths turns that flawed paradigm on its head.

Regardless of how wealthy or poor their parents are, all black boys must confront and surmount the "achievement gap": a divide that shows up not only in our sons' test scores, but in their social and emotional development, their physical well-being, and their outlook on life. As children, they score as high on cognitive tests as their peers, but at some point, the gap emerges. Why? This is the question Joe Brewster, M.D., and Michele Stephenson asked when their own son, Idris, began struggling in a new school.

Adopting the methodology of the music charts, The Classic Fifty Poems presents the "top 50" poems of all time. Newly revised, and read by an ensemble of contemporary poets, The Classic Fifty Poems is a feast for poetry lovers.