Play Development

With plenty of research-based guidance and step-by-step activities, this book will help your toddlers to speak in no time. And with proven strategies and easy-to-follow fun activities for toddlers, this book of 20 activities is an ideal addition to your homeschool educational material.

Play is important. Play is a fundamental human need. Play can improve every area of a person’s life. But are you really getting enough real play? It’s time to explore The Play Paradigm. This breakthrough book will help you understand and re-define your relationship with play. This has the potential to transform your life, work, relationships, and overall levels of success and happiness.

Stop negative thoughts, assuage anxiety, and live in the moment with these fun, easy games from improv expert Clay Drinko. Dr. Clay Drinko offers 120 low-key, accessible activities that draw on the popular principles of improv comedy to help you tackle your everyday stress and reconnect with the people around you.

Babies are amazing! From the moment they open their eyes, they are learning and developing at an astonishing rate. Parents naturally want to engage with infants as they learn and grow, but what if we could optimize the way we play with babies? Backed by the latest research and years of observation, Playing with Baby distills the experts’ findings for new parents, giving them a guide to the first year of a baby’s life and the growth of his or her individual mind.

Men have a game plan for picking up women. Now it's time for you to make your move. In his popular Love Systems dating bootcamps, famed pickup artist and dating coach Nick Savoy has taught tens of thousands of men how to attract and seduce the women they desire. Now, after watching countless interactions between the sexes - and hearing what men really think about women, dating, and playing the game - Savoy is sharing his best-kept secrets and proven pickup tips with today's single women.

Lisa Sugar has an amazing job. She spends her days at PopSugar creating content about pop culture, must-have handbags and makeup, healthy recipes, and Instagram-worthy sweets. She manages an enormously successful, growing company with employees who love what they do. And her life is just as great at home. She and her husband have three daughters, and she's the number one soccer mom who loves reading bedtime stories every night.

There are many struggles in the SaaS world, but the biggest one is arguably the most important one: pricing. Leaving money on the table by charging too little or driving clients away with confusing plans is one of the many reasons why many SaaS companies fail. Getting pricing right can be the difference between just getting by and high revenue growth. But don't get it twisted, this is not another book about pricing theory.

E se a pessoa que você ama partisse para a Transilvânia e deixasse de dar notícias? Você teria coragem de ir atrás dela? Mesmo que isso significasse enfrentar forças sombrias? E, acima de tudo, você se perguntaria se é realmente isso que ela deseja?

Every year, over 10,000 letters addressed to Juliet Capulet arrive in Verona, Italy, the famous hometown of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. These handwritten letters come from people all over the world, seeking guidance and support from Juliet herself. Capturing the pain, joy, humor, and confusion of love, the 60 letters in this book offers encouragement, comfort, hope - and a nod to the human condition. Including responses from Juliet herself, this romantic and relatable, and perfect as a Valentine's Day gift, Dear Juliet proves that love is the universal language.

Play is the language of children. It is how they communicate. By rediscovering the joy of play as an adult, you can access a whole new way to understand and respond to your child’s needs. Created with busy parents in mind, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune has devised a simple but effective method to build quality playful time together at home, structured around 15-minute games that can be easily incorporated into your existing daily routine.

But I must explain to you how all this mistaken idea of denouncing pleasure and praising pain was born and I will give you a complete account of the system, and expound the actual teachings of the great explorer of the truth, the master-builder of human happiness.

Shawna Potter, singer for the band War on Women, has tackled sexism and harassment in lyrics and on stage for years. Taking the battle to music venues themselves, she has trained night clubs and community spaces in how to create safer environments for marginalized people. Now she’s turned decades of experience into a clear and concise guide for public spaces of all sorts, from art galleries to bagel shops to concert halls, that want to shut down harassers wherever they show up.

Navigate the intricate terrain of nurturing language skills in both typically developing children and those facing unique challenges, from late talkers to those with special needs. This book equips you with essential tools and proven strategies, eliminating the guesswork and empowering you to foster language proficiency with confidence.

Practicing GP, mother of two and Instagram’s popular doctor Preeya Alexander is a refreshing new voice in the parenting space. Her hands-on, inclusive and down-to-earth advice, combined with a big dose of fun, is the ultimate survival guide for the first two years of parenting. Preeya offers straightforward and trustworthy information about looking after both babies and new parents. From postpartum care and mastitis to feeding and sleep problems, nothing is off limits.

For years, Danielle Colley believed life was endless rounds of stress until you died. One day, after being fired as a journalist at The Australian Women’s Weekly, the solo mum was propelled beyond stress and straight to Burn Out Town. Deciding life should not feel like a constant uphill marathon, Danielle’s mission became discovering contentment and creating an ambitious life that still feels good to live.

No matter what, situations will arise where people will cross your boundaries, break their commitments, or exhibit plain rudeness towards you. In these moments it is crucial that you step up, speak up, address the behavior, and navigate those difficult conversations with honesty, confidence, and understanding. This approach helps prevent the accumulation of anger, resentment, and bitterness in your relationships. Using this comprehensive guide, you can now navigate difficult conversations with transparency, confidence, and empathy while fostering a respectful relationship with others.

You can learn to play music, no matter what you've been told about your musical talent or aptitude. With the right instruction and methods, learning to play music can be an endless source of joy and fulfillment. And learning to play music isn't just fun, it's also the ideal brain fitness activity. Dr. Turknett, a neurologist, self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and the founder of Brainjo and the Brainjo Method of instruction, distills the principles of learning to play music down into a set of universal "laws" that can be applied to any instrument.

This audio course is aimed at parents of very young children, ages one to five, who are learning everything for the first time. This period is crucial for guiding them toward the behaviors we wish to see, as they have no previous references or memories. It's the best time to teach them basic skills and set limits for certain behaviors that may become problematic. Over the three lessons, you will learn the foundations for keeping your child healthy and happy, while helping them develop and grow correctly.

Dealing with a cheating partner is never easy, especially when you don't know how to identify the signs of his or her infidelity. In the game of cheating, where there are no winners, you have to learn to play the cards that you were dealt to keep from losing everything. A single high card may help you win the hand, but can cost you the game if played out of turn. Knowing when to fold, hold, up the ante, and maintain your poker face throughout the process will make all the difference.

Often, we treat games like work. We buy shelves of thick books. We plan detailed adventures. We memorize rules. In Play Unsafe, Graham Walmsley explores what happens when you throw the serious stuff away: when you stop working, stop planning and start playing. This book explains how to make role-playing less like work and more like play; stop killing other players' ideas and build on them instead; and put stories at the heart of your game.