Parenting School

The jump between primary and secondary school marks one of the biggest transitions in a student's life. It's the point at which a child leaves the relatively safe cocoon of childhood and enters the wide world of adolescence. For both parents and their children, it can be a huge shock, as they encounter a minefield of serious issues to deal with - everything from peer and study pressures to phones, parties and beyond.

Unleash your inner brilliant vixen, pick the right high-quality man, and live your dream of a romantic happy-ever-after. How many times have you met a new man and been filled with hope that this time you’ve met Mr. Right only to find a few dates later that he’s Mr. Wrong? But what if you could stop wasting precious time? What if you could bring out your best self and attract a high-quality man? The good news is you can!

Taking the Stress out of Homework breaks down for parents exactly when and how to offer homework support. Whether your child's stress point is executive functioning - the ability to plan or organize - or a subject-specific struggle in math, reading, writing, or standardized test-preparation, Abby and Brian use real-life stories to provide individualized, actionable advice.

Synthesizing cutting-edge research and first-hand reporting, Peg Tyre offers parents far smarter and more sophisticated ways to assess a classroom and decide if the school and the teacher have the right stuff. Passionate and persuasive, The Good School empowers parents to make sense of headlines; constructively engage teachers, administrators, and school boards; and figure out the best options for their children.

Empower your child with essential financial skills through Smart Money Lessons for Kids. Designed for 6th and 7th graders, this engaging resource helps children learn budgeting, saving, and making smart financial choices, setting them on a path to financial independence.

Equip your child with essential money skills. Smart Money Lessons for Kids: Grade 4 and 5 Financial Literacy empowers children with financial knowledge and confidence. Perfect for 4th and 5th graders, this book offers invaluable life lessons they will carry into adulthood.

As a six-year-old walks the block home from school, a car pulls to the curb beside him. The man driving asks the boy if he wants a ride, and begins to get out of his car... If this happened, would your child know what to do? You may remember a time when you played outdoors until dark. In many parts of our country, many children still do. However, for those parents, schools, and teachers feeling unsure about the safety of their neighborhoods or towns, empowerment goes a long way.

Most parents want to help their children develop critical thinking skills in order to understand truth and avoid being deceived. Yet this desire doesn’t help someone learn how to actually make it happen. How can parents—how can you—actually raise a critical thinker? Sometimes the best way to learn a truth is to explore its antithesis. Just as darkness helps us better comprehend light, perhaps we can better understand how to raise critical thinkers by considering how we might do the opposite.

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!

Hendrika de Vries is a protected “daddy’s girl”, until her father is deported from Nazi-occupied Amsterdam to a POW camp in Germany and her mother joins the resistance and hides a Jewish girl in their home. As she and her mother experience escalating brutality at the hands of men with swastika armbands who aim to exterminate those they deem “inferior” and those who do not obey, Hendrika learns about moral choice, forced silence and female strength, and through it all discovers the woman she wants to become.

In this book, we discuss the parental role, and discover the foundation on which a healthy parent-child relationship should be built. We uncover the realities of relating with your children as BFFs, and discover why it can become quite a prevalent challenge for good parenting.

To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, tall, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew's past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before hung over him. When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him.

Liebe Eltern, vertraut euren Kindern einfach! Denn das Zauberwort für eine erfolgreiche Schulzeit lautet: Eigenverantwortung. Winters innovativer Ansatz "Coaching statt Nachhilfe" verzichtet auf belastende Paukerei und setzt stattdessen eine positive Motivationsspirale in Gang: Die Schüler erkennen Sinn und Nutzen der geforderten Leistungen für das eigene Leben und entwickeln ein besseres Verhältnis zu Lehrern und Lernstoff.

In this instant classic self-help guide, author Michael Z. gives us all the "missing life" manual we need to live happier, less stressful lives. This guide provides you with 100 practical, often lighthearted, and immediately useful tips, strategies, and techniques to help you reduce stress and anxiety, and to discover the sense of peace and happiness you've been looking for. Using Michael Z's gentle suggestions will help you live more gracefully, more mindfully, and with an increased awareness of and appreciation for the joy that is available to you whenever you slow down to see it.

This interactive spelling practice is all your second-grader needs to excel at spelling. The follow-along style is optimal for the fastest learning and mastering of spelling. What your child will get with this practice: an interactive experience for optimal learning, more than 250 words for second-grade level spelling, designated time for your child to practice their spelling, correct aloud spelling of each word, and more!

A story of friendship, courage and a bit of crime. Bridget wants a quiet life, including, if possible, keeping her parents out of prison. Then a boy called Menzies makes her an offer she can't refuse, and they set off on a job of their own. It's a desperate, daring plan, to rescue two kids, Jamal and Bibi, from a desert detention centre. Can Bridget and Menzies pull off their very first jail break, or will they end up behind bars too? Sometimes to help a friend, you have to dig deep.

Raise your young children to always do the right thing and leave a legacy for generations. It’s up to you as the parent to try and prevent life, people, and circumstance from transforming your kids into lesser individuals. And this mission is both simple and tricky. Simple because all you need to do to ensure your kid grows up a good, kind, helpful person is to nurture their instinctive desire to be good. The tricky part is knowing how to do that.

On an ordinary January afternoon, a disturbing revelation about his wife hurls one man into a maelstrom of public humiliation and heartbreak, and eventually on a spree of run-ins with lawyers, judges, therapists, and law enforcement. Land of July tells the true story of a teacher/student sex scandal that not only shocked an entire school and small suburban community, but made national news. It’s a story filled with countless anecdotes about marriage, trust, infidelity, grief, and the desperate search for hope and family in the face of ruin.

Money is a universal tool whose value we all understand. The currencies may vary, but the value which this printed piece of paper has on societies across the world is almost universal. However, passing down this knowledge to children early in life is often very challenging and many parents are having a hard time teaching their kids about money. Just think of how much better your child’s life will be when they are all grown and are building wealth with the lessons that you taught them.

Whether your child is already in the Montessori world or they are in the traditional schooling system, you can turn your home into a source of learning, creativity, and independence. This book is here to provide you with the theoretical framework and the practical knowledge you need to help your child excel academically, target behavioral issues, and work with (instead of against) their individual strengths.