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My weird school daze volume 11
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The After School Kids' Care director wants to get into The Guiness Book of World Records, and A. J. and the gang jump in to help him.
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"[This book] explores how today's parenting techniques and our myopic education system are failing to prepare children for their certain-to-be-uncertain futures -- and how we can reverse course to ensure their lasting adaptability, resilience, health, and happiness" -- From book jacket flap.
Increasingly, the world we know has become disturbing, unfamiliar, and even threatening. In the wake of uncertainty and rapid change, adults are doubling-down...
3) Sardines
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"After the accident that took his older brother, Lucas is pretty much alone, except for the motley group of kids he meets at his middle school's aftercare program"--OCLC.
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A practical parenting resource to understanding and relieving anxiety in kids, including 15 tools and workbook exercises to do with your children to manage their fears and worry less.
Being the parent of a smart child is great—until your son or daughter starts asking whether global warming is real, if you are going to die, and what will happen if they don't get into college. Kids who are advanced intellectually often experience
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Unplug your grade-schooler with 200 screen-free games and activities!
“A terrific prescription for much of what ails children and parents today.”––Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
From Fortune-Teller to Draw Me a Story, Spillin’ the Beans to Monkeyshines, here are more than 200 screen-free games and activities to help kids...
“A terrific prescription for much of what ails children and parents today.”––Richard Louv, author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
From Fortune-Teller to Draw Me a Story, Spillin’ the Beans to Monkeyshines, here are more than 200 screen-free games and activities to help kids...
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This manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life's inevitable problems so that they can grow up to be successful, resilient, and self-reliant adults. Modern parenting is defined by an unprecedented level of over protectiveness: parents who rush to school at the whim of a phone call to deliver forgotten assignments, who challenge teachers...
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Who uses love and logic in their parenting? Parents, counselors, and teachers around the globe--even Bill and Melinda Gates have found the philosophy of Parenting with Love and Logic an important guide when raising their three children. Learn how to reel in your own emotions while teaching your children responsibility, establishing boundaries, and growing their character. Establish healthy control through easy-to-implement steps without anger, threats,...
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Kids today are facing unprecedented pressures, and their mental health is suffering. As a parent, you may feel burned out and exhausted yourself, and perhaps overwhelmed by the idea of taking on your child's stress. But “Building Happier Kids” offers practical, concrete steps you can take to help your kids and yourself! Dr. Bhargava prescribes taking an intentional pause from modern life's nonstop pace to focus on ways you can meaningfully impact...
10) Immigrant's Daughter: Life as a Girl With Lithuanian Immigrant Parents in New York in the 1920's
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Anne's Memories
Vignette One – Home Life and Carnival
Birth of George. Black girl in white dress. Father's tailor shop. Finishing collars after hours. Speaking Lithuanian. South Ozone Park. Languages and kindness at the local carnival. The wind, the horse and the vegetable cart. Big barrels in the street. The lost boy.
Vignette Two - Coffins and Markets
The horse-drawn coffin. Live poultry pluck-ing. Words paint pictures. Vision is the soul of...
12) Happiness
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This book is a simple little exercise in thinking about what happiness is and what makes us happy. It is written with the young school-aged child in mind. The idea is to encourage positive thinking and to help happiness become every child's habit in approaching each day.
As we all know, life is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent how we react to what happens. I hope this children's book serves as a springboard for happy thoughts and for conversations...
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Homework can be one of the most frustrating of all problem areas for chidlren and parents. In this helpful guide, Rosemond warns against parental interference and demonstrates ways to help children learn to work on their own and to take responsibility for getting the work done themselves.
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Robbie's family was separated from other families in the Happy Forest for a long time. They didn't know others were judging them for things they couldn't control. When nature provided an opening, the young animals start new friendships. Their discovery leads to happier times in their forest. Their actions are a perfect example of showing kindness first.
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This book Is written from memories of a childhood where there was little to no hope for success. It is about children who were without any store-bought toys or games. The kids were all happy and had no idea they were less fortunate and living in poverty. They just wanted to play and have fun. These are stories how kids became creative and used their imagination, these children created childhood memories and relationships that would last a lifetime....
16) Kindness
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Kindness is a children's book written to show how being kind can give a nice emotional lift to all involved. Both the person offering a kind deed and the person receiving a kind deed walk away feeling a little better. This is a story based on a real event. This interaction took an annoying and unpleasant day and turned into a great day, one which stands out as a day to remember. We all have choices to make as we go through our days. Choose wisely...
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This book came the night after my last grandparent's life was celebrated, Grandma GG was one hundred plus. Sitting alone in the Hampton Inn Hotel, I jotted down things learned from all four of my grandparents. I was fortunate enough to know all of mine into adulthood, the men didn't teach us as long as the grandmas did here on earth.
This "book" is meant simply for the generations of family after us to know our grandparents through my eyes. Each...
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Zesta, is a horse of many colors, who helps to guide and comfort all children in their decisions. It is the choices we make in life that teach us through our experiences. These choices can create pleasant experiences or bumpy journeys. Join me in the amazing travel of Zesta as a devoted friend to all children.
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For more than forty years and counting, family psychologist and best-selling author John Rosemond has been counseling parents about how to help children do their best in school. This new book draws on all of that knowledge and experience so that parents can set their kids on the path to success in education, even at age three. Dealing with common problems like how much and what kind of help to give with homework, what to do when a child misbehaves...
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