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Is Your 13 Year Old Ready to Take Charge? Essential Life Skills Every 13 Year Old Needs to Know helps teens ages 13 and up build confidence, independence, and smart decision making with essential life skills. This parent trusted life skills book teaches practical techniques to manage money, make decisions, and think critically. With hands on lessons and relatable activities, this guide makes teaching essential tools simple and natural.

"Man-speak" lessons on raising a child with autism. Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives fathers 100 short, simple, and practical lessons on how to create strong bonds with their children when autism is in the picture. Written by a father of an adult son with autism, Six-Word Lessons for Dads with Autistic Kids gives you straight-up advice that you can put to work right away.

In the fractured environment of the 21st century, true success will be unique and unexpected - the result of a creative response to complex, shifting challenges. In light of that, how do we prepare? How do we educate ourselves and our children for life in 2050? In the world our children will face, neither static definitions of intelligence nor traditional ideas of training will be good enough. To prepare them, parents and educators need to reframe the question of how we educate and come up with an answer that uses different terms than we are accustomed to.

Life as a father can be tough, there’s no doubt about it. This can be one of the most trying times in any man's life, but believe it or not, it’s going to make you a much better person. You just must choose to embrace the process. There is a clear path ahead, and with the right tools, techniques, and new awareness, you’ll soon find that raising a little girl is going to be the best thing that ever happened to you. There is only one path forward now, and that's to dive deeper within. Charge into your own personal growth and provide the best possible father for your daughter.

This book is for the millions of parents of all races who are not born into the silver spoon crowd; who know enough to want their child to earn more to have a better life than they did, who seek practical advice regarding how to get academic and economic liftoff for their children. The author, David M. Ramirez, J.D. has the credentials and the real life experience to give no baloney “road tested” “no fluff” expert advice on this subject that really works. The author just finished [2016-2017) turning around the adult prison school at Folsom State Prison which was truly floundering, ...

Based on the authors' more than seventy combined years of professional success working with children of all abilities, Growing an In-Sync Child provides parents, teachers, and other professionals with the tools to give every child a head start and a leg up. Because early motor development is one of the most important factors in a child's physical, emotional, academic, and overall success, the In- Sync Program of sixty adaptable, easy, and fun activities will enhance your child's development, in just minutes a day.

This audiobook is not just another book about dyslexia. It comes with video tutorials to help you with reading, writing, spelling, math and much more. This audiobook shows you how Lucie Curtiss, a Dyslexic woman, developed tools and strategies to become a successful businesswoman. She then honed these tools as she helped her Dyslexic son excel at school. Lucie then enrolled her husband, Dr. Douglas Curtiss, a Yale-trained pediatrician, to contribute to this audiobook. Together they show you how to implement these strategies in your life so that your Dyslexic child can be UN-Stoppable.

In "America's Embarrassing Reading Crisis: What We Learned From COVID," Dr. Lisa Hassler delves into pivotal data supporting the efficacy of online learning, particularly when integrated with the Theory of Transactional Distance (TD), to bolster literacy rates. As a leading researcher, Dr. Hassler not only spearheaded this award-winning study but also applied TD theory in her own second-grade classroom, across various learning environments, yielding remarkable success.

"Bloodlines and Betrayals" is a heart-felt and thrilling Christian suspense novel by award-winning author Sarah Hualde. Lydia Everett, a homeschooler, faces the shocking murder of a young woman who sought her help. Unfortunately, her death isn’t the only mystery haunting Lydia. With her small town in chaos thanks to the arrival of suspicious and dangerous strangers, Lydia enlists the help of her homeschool friends to crack the case before it's too late. In this page-turning mystery, Hualde expertly weaves together a tale of murder, betrayal, and redemption that is sure to keep readers on ...

If you want a complete guy's guide to pregnancy and childbirth so you can be there for your partner physically and emotionally, try this audiobook!

Let’s admit it: No marriage is perfect. Every couple has some misunderstandings and conflicts. However, happy couples can prevent their misunderstandings from escalating. Even if they argue emotionally, they never resort to psychological abuse. They always figure out a compromise, afterward. Some unhappy couples can’t deal with the tiniest disagreement. Any random word or action can trigger a violent conflict.

Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband, Thomas, their two beautiful children, and God. But then what begins as innocent letter writing with poet James starts to become something far more erotically charged, their meeting of minds threatening to become a meeting of bodies. As everything Maggie believes in is thrown into doubt, the listener is drawn ever deeper into the battleground of her soul.

Do you want your child to get the very best start in their education, even before they go to school? Have you considered Montessori as the way forward and want to implement it at home? This audiobook is an essential guide to get you started! The Montessori approach to child development has been tried and tested for over 100 years and the results speak for themselves. Children are naturally engaged, thoughtful, resilient, and curious about the world around them and the Montessori method taps into that in ways that other methods cannot.

Everyone knows that boys are falling behind in education. Largely left out of the discussion are parents of boys, who are most aware that their bright, eager sons hit an invisible wall somewhere near fourth grade, after which they become disengaged, discouraged, and disaffected. There are dozens of books on underachieving boys, but most parents brave enough to lift one off the shelf are instantly intimidated by the footnotes, graphs, case studies, and academic-speak addressed almost entirely to educators.

Partner with your Heavenly Father to bring up faithful kids…If your husband or ex-husband doesn't share your faith, you probably pray and stress over how to raise faith-filled children. Your spiritually mismatched home may feel like the wilderness where the children of Israel wandered on their way to the Promised Land. Will they ever make it? What about God's promises? Now the authors of Winning Him Without Words and founders of Spiritually Unequal Marriage offer ten faith principles you can pass on to your kids. In Not Alone, you'll find encouragement and inspiration from Scripture and true-life stories from other spiritually mismatched moms.

Cutting. It’s become a buzzword lately, but very few books address it from the perspective of a youth worker or concerned friend. Marv Penner has lived in this world for the past few years, talking with teenagers online and meeting with them to understand what drives them and why they self-injure. In this timely and helpful book, youth workers, coaches, teachers, and others will get the information they need to begin to understand and help (or point to help) kids who cut.

Bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and podcaster Allison Carmen's new audiobook, Maybe Everything is Okay: A Parent's Guide to Less Stress and Worry (September 17, 2024; Tantor Audio Original; narrated by Kim Niemi), is both important and timely. It offers parents a powerful and uplifting tool called the "Maybe mindset" to help them navigate the unknown with greater ease and renewed hope.

Foster families are unsung heroes, willing to stand on the front lines for children who can’t stand up for themselves. But fostering can also be a lonely journey as friends and family members pull away from the fear of the unknown. We all have a job to do, and it starts by stepping forward and wrapping around those who are sacrificing so much.

Potty training is a challenging and important rite of passage, but just how to go about it may not be common knowledge. Unfortunately, many toilet training books offer a one-technique-fits-all approach. Worse, many are too judgmental, adding unnecessary stress and anxiety to parent and child. This book is a how-to manual on potty training, a nonjudgmental guide offering you five tried and true, evidence-based techniques to get your child to upgrade from wearing diapers to using the toilet. The methods are fully explained, complete with how-to instructions and the pros and cons of each.

Henry is a good helper! He can even help with dinner.