Child Development category: 2058 books
See Jane Hit
Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
From one of Americas leading authorities on juvenile violence comes a groundbreaking investigation of the explosion of violent behavior in girls
With Lost Boys, James Garbarino became our foremost explicator of violent behavior in boys. Now he turns his attention to its increasing incidence...
The Growth Mindset Coach
A Teacher's Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A complete and easy-to-follow guide for inspiring every student with the power of growth mindset
Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students’ potential through creative lessons, empowering messages and innovative teaching. The Growth Mindset Coach provides...
Masterminds and Wingmen
Helping Our Boys Cope with Schoolyard Power, Locker-Room Tests, Girlfriends, and the New Rules of Boy World
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A landmark book that reveals the way boys think and that shows parents, educators and coaches how to reach out and help boys overcome their most common and difficult challenges -- by the bestselling author who changed our conception of adolescent girls.
Do you constantly struggle to pull information...
by Sean Quincy Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
“When I Get Big” is a story about Little Big Bear. He is a young bear who is eager to grow up. Little Big Bear finds himself in trouble while he has an adventure away from home. Little Big Bear encounters many creatures on his adventure. Among the animals is a butterfly, bees, a frog and a badger...
by Rosario Busquets Nosti
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 19, 2013
El cambio de percepción con respecto a quién es el niño tiene relativamente poco tiempo. Antes se le veía como alguien "vacío", a quien había que "llenar" de información, ideas, modales, etc., para prepararlo para la vida adulta. Lo cierto es que los niños son seres capaces...
Jump-Starting Boys
Help Your Reluctant Learner Find Success in School and Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
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...
Raising Confident Boys
100 Tips For Parents And Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Boys need to be noticed, admired, understood, and accepted to feel good about themselves. Boys who lack appropriate emotional support from the adults close to them are at risk of believing they don't fit in and are likely to act accordingly, engaging in risky behaviors-including at worst using drugs...
Branded
The Buying And Selling Of Teenagers
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2008
Generation Y has grown up in an age of the brand, bombarded by name products. In Branded, Alissa Quart illuminates the unsettling new reality of marketing to teenagers, as well as the quieter but no less worrisome forms of teen branding: the teen consultants who work for corporations in exchange for...
Hou je van me?
het ontroerende, waargebeurde verhaal van een beschadigd klein meisje
Language: Dutch
Release Date: November 9, 2015
Cathy is een ervaren pleegouder, maar niemand had haar kunnen voorbereiden op de komst van Jodie, een achtjarig meisje met zoveel gedragsproblemen dat ze in vier maanden tijd bij vijf verschillende gezinnen wordt geplaatst.Cathy besluit Jodie in huis te nemen en is vastbesloten om haar gedrag te begrijpen....
by Adam Nader
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Affection and intimacy aren’t enough to up bring your children. Without adequate awareness and knowledge, parents can’t raise their children properly and soundly.
Most parents treat their children with their fatherly and motherly instincts live passion and care; however, what’s really demanded...
The Dark Side of Innocence
Growing Up Bipolar
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
“Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable.”
As a young girl, Terri Cheney’s life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house in a tranquil Los Angeles suburb where the geraniums never once failed to bloom. She...
by Gary Ezzo, Robert Bucknam
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The period between twelve and eighteen months places a child on a one-way bridge to the future. Infancy is a thing of the past and toddlerhood is straight ahead. A baby still? Not really, but neither is he a toddler and that is the key to understanding this phase of growth.
This is a period...
How to Be a New Mom: Baby Care for the New Mother of a Toddler
The Proper Care of a Newborn Baby
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2012
Congratulations on your new baby! This is the start of a wonderful and very rewarding chapter in a woman’s life. Now that you have a newborn, you have probably thought about the things that you are going to need. It is still important that you know a few things that you are going to need...
Conceptualizing Music
Cognitive Structure, Theory, and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
This book shows how recent work in cognitive science, especially that developed by cognitive linguists and cognitive psychologists, can be used to explain how we understand music. The book focuses on three cognitive processes--categorization, cross-domain mapping, and the use of conceptual models--and...