Family Learning

It can be said that most everyone is looking for balance and harmony in life, two of the preconditions for happiness. We are all trying to balance our work with our personal life, our need for individuality with our need for love and relationships, trying to find harmony between our spiritual practice and our need for money.

The available parent of a tween/teenager is open to discussion, offers advice and problem-solving (but doesn't insist on it). She allows her child to make some mistakes, sets limits (primarily where health and safety are concerned), never lectures, is available but not controlling. The available parent is self-aware, keeps her own emotions in check when dealing with her teen, is unconditionally loving and accepting, open to new and different ways of thinking, neither cruel nor dismissive - ever.

Claire Jaynes inherits a goat farm and learns that goats fight a lot. She and her family learn to train goats and then teach people how to train their inner mammal. Protestors suddenly block their driveway. Why would anyone protest a little backyard biology workshop? Clues lead to the nosy neighbor and the pompous professor, but as the protests spread, Claire suspects a dark force behind them. She tracks down her adversaries , and at first, they seem too big to fight. But the family builds powerful alliances while trekking wild goats, making viral animal videos, and selling goat cheese to ...

Parenting Bright Kids Who Struggle in School guides parents through the challenging and often unfamiliar landscape of raising kids who have been labeled with learning differences, including dyslexia, ADHD, autism, sensory processing disorder, and more. Drawing from her own experience as a parent of a child with learning differences - who is now a highly successful adult - the author outlines clear lessons from a quarter century of advocating for kids who learn differently.

After Alice Dreger's live tweeting of her son's abstinence sex ed class went viral, Dreger was asked by many parents how she had managed to raise a 14-year-old so comfortable talking about sex - comfortable enough even to challenge sex ed teachers when they presented misinformation. The Talk is a response to those questions.

There are 300,000 coastal U.S. properties which, if purchased today with a 30-year mortgage, will be worthless by the end of the mortgage and by 2099 will cost the United States more than $1 trillion of lost property value. The complete situation including bank failures and infrastructure destruction will be much worse. This booklet is about how you and your community can prepare for climate change. You'll find the latest measurements and estimates to help families, investors, and government officials prepare for the inevitable. Whether you believe the earth is warming because of human ...

Whitney Wallace loves her family, but she thinks they're all soooooo boring. Then one snowy day, something happens, and Whitney is left to go off on adventures all by herself. What will she discover that wonderful snowy day combined with her active imagination?

Unlock the magic of Montessori education at home with Montessori Moments: Engaging Activities for Toddlers and Preschoolers. This comprehensive guide is designed specifically for parents seeking practical, easy-to-implement activities that foster independence, focus, and holistic development in their little ones.

Every child belongs. Every child is unique. Every child has strengths. Every child has the potential to fly. Whether your child has received a diagnosis or is exhibiting behaviors that worry you, Empowering Your Child to Fly: A Family’s Guide to Early Childhood Inclusion offers advice for navigating the early intervention and special education systems from an educator who has experienced these systems as a child, as a parent, and as a professional.

In “We Are Not Seeing It: How & Why Mainstream Schools Break SEND Kids”, blogger and parent Luisa Gray (aka. @LongRoadSENDMum) explains what the drivers of the SEND emergency REALLY are — and how UK schools and Local Authorities are routinely causing harm to SEND children: harm that is massive, with potentially life-long effects.

MY SPECIAL STAR Read it FREE as part of your Kindle Unlimited membership I couldn't sleep that night; I was wide awake, I heard a loud noise and I started to shake. Then I went out to the yard to look around, A very bright light was shining on the ground.

THE BEST NEST ******************** At night when Mom said to take a bath, And wash his hair with shampoo. He’d only wet his hair with water, And his mother never knew.

One day, villagers from Lacaune, in the mountains of southern France, returned from the woods with a startling story. They’d glimpsed a naked boy digging in the leaves. A year later - in 1798 - the strange, scarred boy appeared again, and this time woodsmen captured him and marched him down the mountain to the village square, where everyone crowded around to take in the spectacle. And so began the curious public life of the boy known as the Savage of Aveyron, whose journey took him all the way to Paris.

Learn how to build your family tree, learn about your family history and browse through the memories of your loved ones. Who were your ancestors? Do you perhaps have some noble background and don't know it? And how to succeed on your own in gathering information? Perhaps you'd better get help from an expert? This and much more in a simple, easy-to-understand and unpretentious book.

Primary school teacher and education influencer Katie Tollitt is here to help you revolutionise your relationship with teaching your primary school children at home. Covering eight key principles for how to approach learning in way that maximises fun and minimises stress, this short, accessible audiobook emphasises the need for flexibility, conversation and openness.

Tomie invites listeners to share in his childhood memories as he prays for his brand-new baby sister to get over pneumonia and finally learns to read.

What are the capacities of children of different ages? How can they be recognized? And critically, what kinds of environments nourish optimal development of each capacity? These are questions that every parent, teacher, and child-oriented professional yearns to answer. They wish to recognize the child’s capabilities and respond to them to ensure optimal well-being. Is this possible? Yes! When we ask the right questions, the door opens. Remarkably, the door opens to an intuitively satisfying appreciation of children that requires no extensive training to understand and act upon it.

Christmas stories Stories Collection ******************* Young and beginner reader’s kids would get the most enjoyment from the tree titles for Christmas we selected In We hope you enjoy reading them to your kids, grandchildren. SEA OF LOVE <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 * <3 Just off by the sea in a small shabby shack, Lived Sarah’s whole family, a big crowded pack, Two parents, three brothers, and three sisters, too; With less room inside as all the kids grew. OH DEAR SAID THE DEER ************************************* "Oh dear," said the deer, "I'm so cold, what a plight! I've searched for a...

Jerry Broadway thought his life had seen every hill, curve, and roadblock possible. Then his third child was born with two rare brain disorders, and everything came crashing down. Join this determined family as they attempt to rise from the ashes in this real, raw, and sometimes hilarious look at life with a special needs child. Along the way, there's love, cancer, infidelity, a career in show business, laughter, tears, and miracles.

In Outside the Box, you will listen to chapters written by nine contributing authors, each of whom is a female entrepreneur, mom, and world traveler. Authors have committed to sharing their families journeys in the hopes of educating and inspiring other travel-loving moms.