School Age category: 299 books
Your Seven-Year-Old
Life in a Minor Key
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
Your Seven-Year-Old is devoted to the delightful but often anxious and withdrawn child of Seven. Although any seven-year-old will have moments of exuberance, security, and happiness, in general this is an age of introspection. As it begins, parents and teachers may welcome the quiet after the tussles...
Raising a Self-Reliant Child
A Back-to-Basics Parenting Plan from Birth to Age 6
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
With this practical guide, parents can end daily power struggles with their preschoolers, toddlers, and infants and create more time for the family to spend on things that matter by encouraging early childhood independence skills.
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We’ve all heard the news about helicopter parents and boomerang...
by Lori Shandle-Fox
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2016
So, school's over... and...so... now what? Do they go to camp? Even if they do, there's that black hole between when camp ends & school starts. Of course they'll expect me to entertain them...constantly. There's local stuff to do. Fairs & stuff. And then, oh wow look at that... it's Back-to-School...
HELP! My Child Hates School
An Awakened Parent's Guide To Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Were you just Googling this: “Help! My child hates school”?
Is your child depressed, unmotivated, resentful, or angry when it’s time to go to school each morning?
Does your child come home from school and share stories of being bullied, made fun of, or just plain feeling unheard...
The Soul of Discipline
The Simplicity Parenting Approach to Warm, Firm, and Calm Guidance- From Toddlers to Teens
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
In this groundbreaking book, parenting expert and acclaimed author of the bestselling book Simplicity Parenting Kim John Payne, M.Ed., flips the script on children’s challenging or defiant behavior and lays out an elegantly simple plan to support parents in establishing loving, age-sensitive boundaries...
Your Kid's Gonna Be Okay
Building the Executive Function Skills Your Child Needs in the Age of Attention
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2018
Do you do too much for your kid out of fear they will never make it in the world without your oversight? Are you frustrated or worried about your ‘tween, teen, or young adult who seems lazy or unmotivated? Do you see your child unable to reach their potential because they are disorganized, scattered,...
Middle School Makeover
Improving the Way You and Your Child Experience the Middle School Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Middle School Makeover is a guide for parents and educators to help the tweens in their lives navigate the socially fraught hallways, gyms, and cafeterias of middle school. The book helps parents, teachers, and other adults in middle school settings to understand the social dilemmas and other issues...
by Mercy Loomis
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
"I don't like poetry."
You hear that a lot, usually from people who used to write poetry. Most of those people destroyed their own poems long ago.
But poetry can be a time capsule. It can offer insight into the development of its writer both on a technical and on a thematic...
by Michael Reist
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2013
School is our children's second home. They will spend more time there than anywhere else in their formative years. We all need to talk honestly about the nature of this environment, how it works, and how it doesn't work. Our kids are depending on us to create a school system where they can learn as...
The Organized Student
Teaching Children the Skills for Success in School and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2005
A must-read for parents, The Organized Student contains hands-on strategies for teaching your disorganized child how to organize for success in middle school and high school, with special tips for kids with ADD/ADHD and learning disorders.
The overstuffed backpack, the missing homework, the...
The Bully Action Guide
How to Help Your Child and Get Your School to Listen
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
Bullying used to be thought of as an unpleasant rite of passage, but now psychologists are realizing that it inflicts real harm. As many as 40 percent of children report that they've experienced episodes of bullying at school or online through their school community. School safety expert Edward Dragan...
School Start
Help Your Child to Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Essential reading for any parent wanting to help their child develop the emotional skills necessary for school success! Studies increasingly show that children who have good emotional skills are far better equipped to meet the challenges they will face at school. Among the issues addressed in 'School...
Creating Effective Transitions
Moving from the Elementary Grades to Middle School
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2018
This book focuses primarily on elementary to middle school transitions. This book was developed with a two-fold premise: one, that educators and parents understand the role they play in meeting the basic developmental needs of individual students during times of transition; and two, that school leaders...
Pathfinder: an Action Plan
Making the Most of High School
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
High school is not an ending; it is, rather, a commencement. In Pathfinder: An Action Plan, authors Frank C. Leana and Carole S. Clark show parents and educators how to help students feel empowered and make choices and decisions that will serve them well both in high school and beyond. Filled with...