Teenager Learning

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what? Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League Dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike.

Now with It's Ok If You're Clueless, Terry McMillan brings her trademark wit and sass to every son and daughter about to take their first tentative steps into adulthood. Offering such nuggets as "Sit up straight", "Don't listen to your parents", and "Bring your laundry home", as well as "See the world" and "Read anything and everything", It's Ok If You're Clueless is packed with the commonsense advice and conversational tone that have made her novels best sellers.

The beautiful diary of Enrico Bottini, an Italian boy who writes a school-year journal with all the good and bad events with his classmates, his teachers, and his family. It teaches the most important human values for good living. A worldwide best seller recommended for kids and adults.

Was kann Erziehung in der Pubertät noch erreichen? Jesper Juul: In der Pubertät fangen Eltern oft an mit einer Art Turboerziehung, um in letzter Minute noch alles richtig zu machen. Das kann nicht funktionieren. Jetzt kommt es auf die Beziehung an. Dennoch sollten Eltern deutlich sagen, wenn sie nicht einverstanden sind mit dem, was Jugendliche tun, oder? Jesper Juul: Unbedingt! Kinder müssen wissen, was denkt mein Vater oder meine Mutter über diese Sache. Natürlich werden sie nicht zustimmen und sagen: "Eigentlich hast du recht."

Over the past several years, I have had the great opportunity to work with some of the world's best brands. My staff and I developed and implemented techniques to help these companies shine online. And they have! By employing a few social media strategies, these great companies are finding the customers they want and deserve. It quickly came to my attention that my techniques would be valuable to families who are preparing their kids for college.

En "¿Y yo qué? Cuando los adolescentes nos hablan?" Juana Presman recupera testimonios y enseñanzas que extrajo de un trabajo de décadas en el acompañamiento médico a los adolescentes y sus familias.

Se trata además de un llamado a la comprensión y la empatía frente a los desafíos existenciales que afronta toda persona joven, pero vinculándolos a temas concretos: por qué salen, por qué toman, qué buscan en las redes sociales...

Este libro en cierto sentido se complementa con otra de sus obras publicadas: "Decir que no"...

Are you a parent, guardian, or educator worried about your teen’s future? Not sure where they’re headed? Or perhaps you're a young adult striving to carve out your future path? It’s never too early to start looking ahead to the future. Instead of waiting until the end of high school, imagine the advantage they could have by crafting a secure plan within the next 30 days!

Middle school is hard. Your bodies are changing, your friends are changing, classes are harder, and tough things happen. This “support group in a book” is specifically geared to you. Read stories written by kids just like you, about their middle school years, and: true friends and new friends; mean girls... and boys!; embarrassing moments; bully payback; crushes and young love; being happy with yourself; tough times; family issues; doing what’s right and lots more!

Discover the best methods to raise IQ and optimize academic performance. This book will make you smarter, able to learn faster and think better. It reveals the methods used to get straight As at Stanford and 99 percent on medical school exams. Learning methods such as SIRS, flashcards, word play, word associations, mnemonics, walk and talk, shadowing, neurogenesis, angiogenesis, mitochondrial biogenesis, brain glycogen, verbal skills, thinking strategies, condensed notes, and more.

Teenager Murray Keifer just doesn't fit in at school. And it doesn't help that his mother is too busy entertaining male friends to be involved in his life. His only friends are "Dearly" and "Beloved": dead people buried in the local cemetery. That's right, Murray talks to the dead. But Murray's peaceful and unusual world is torn asunder when he hears the voice of missing teen Nikki Parker, buried in someone else's grave.

A chance encounter on the snowy slopes of a castle moat throws together three lonely teenagers: Emily, Simon, and the highly enigmatic Marcus, who is the catalyst for all that follows. At first the castle's ruins are merely the backdrop to a day in the snow. But when the three break into the forbidden interior of the keep, they find the castle taking on a different and deeper meaning. Despite the freezing conditions, they spend the night there, to experience the power of occupation.

Imagine having everything taken away from you - permanently - with no hope of resuming a normal life. This is the case for many teenagers in America who are tried and convicted as adults for the crime of murder. Here Susan Kuklin takes you behind bars for frank interviews with a collection of young men who will spend the better part of their lives in jail. She lets them speak for themselves, providing the raw details of their incarceration and the anger, despair, and surprising hope they experience every day. Kuklin also provides an in-depth look at the American penal system, highlighting its many intricacies and inequities while focusing on capital cases involving juveniles.

Socrate în blugi este un pariu cu adolescenţii de orice vârstă: oamenii curioşi, sensibili şi inteligenţi, pentru care succesul în viaţa personală şi în carieră nu a redus la tăcere întrebările sâcâitoare cu privire la sensul vieţii, nici nu a suprimat mirările copilului fascinat de cum se petrec lucrurile pe lume. Miza pariului, la fel ca în Apologia lui Socrate, e că filosofia rămâne cea mai bună pregătire pentru viaţa de adult.

This book comprises four books to help you on your path to success.