Parent Participation category: 664 books
Maths on the Go
101 Fun Ways to Play with Maths
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
'Here are some great ideas here to help parents switch their kids on to maths. Just getting children to appreciate that maths is part of everyday life can have a massive positive impact – and this book shows you how!'
Mike Ellicock, Chief Executive, National Numeracy
Need some help with addition?...
by Erica Gilardini
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 7, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 7, 2015
In questo libro la D.ssa Erica Gilardini, psicoterapeuta, specializzata nell’età evolutiva, aiuterà i genitori ad acquisire e comprendere nozioni di carattere generale dell’età evolutiva di un bambino, dalla nascita all’adolescenza, attraverso importanti tematiche, quali:
L'importanza dei...
by Agnès Ruiz
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: December 18, 2018
Faites entrer votre jeune enfant dans le monde magique de l’alphabet, des mots et des phrases. Partagez des moments de complicité et d’éclats de rire avec votre enfant dans j’apprends l’alphabet avec mes amies les lettres. Nommez à haute voix les lettres, découvrez ensemble les nombreuses...
Tackling College Admissions
Sanity + Strategy=Success
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2008
Every year millions of parents shepherd their teens through the arduous college admissions process. They are bombarded with too much information and with destructive and pervasive college admissions myths. Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success by Cheryl Paradis and Faren R. Siminoff...
Kids First
Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
It may "take a village to raise a child," but most American families are struggling, with diminishing social support, to do the job on their own. While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on...
by Elisa Bonilla Rius
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Una guía para padres y maestros que desean apoyar el desarrollo de sus tweens. Un material muy fácil de leer, pero que integra distintos aspectos de la educación familiar y escolar que se deben atender.
The Good School
How Smart Parents Get Their Kids the Education They Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Award-winning education journalist Peg Tyre mines up-to-the-minute research to equip parents with the tools and knowledge necessary to get their children the best education possible
We all know that the quality of education served up to our children in U.S. schools ranges from outstanding to...
Comics to Classics
A Guide to Books for Teens and Preteens
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1994
For each developmental stage between the ages of 10 and 18, educator Arthea J. S. Reed provides lists of books organized by genre and carefully selected for teen appeal. In addition to a detailed bibliography, Reed focuses on the particular challenges for each age group, and highlights strategies...
Magickal Rune Vibrations in your Name
It’s not just a name…….It’s a blessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2016
Empower your name with Rune Vibrations
Each name has a vibration which we recognise when that name is seen or spoken. We cannot see the vibration, we just feel that we like or do not like it. If we like a particular name or word it is because our vibration aligns with it.
Runes...
by Simone Di Zio
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
In today’s society, we are inundated by data, but the lack of familiarity with the statistical reasoning is widespread and produces an infinite number of wrong choices. Sometimes with minor impact, sometimes with serious consequences for our health or public safety. Yet to think statistically does...
Helping Parents Understand Schools
A Different Perspective on Education and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom. Parents, even relatively young parents, perceive that public schools are just like when they attended. This faulty perception is held by a large portion of the general public. In...
by Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005
Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes...
Breaking Through
Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution in...
The End of American Childhood
A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed...