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3 Keys to Keeping Your Teen Alive
Lessons for Surviving the First Year of Driving
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Imagine lying awake in bed, waiting to hear the front door open so you’ll know your teen is home safely. But instead, tonight, the doorbell rings. Your heart stops when you see the police officers in the doorway, and you know instantly that your life will never be the same again. Wouldn’t you...
Homeschooling
A Family's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
This intimate, eminently practical memoir of a successful homeschooled family of six children illuminates today’s most exciting choice in education, and shows how it works from cradle to college.
What is it that homeschoolers do that the public schools can’t or won’t? There are at least...
The Essential Conversation
What Parents and Teachers Can Learn from Each Other
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
With the insights she has gleaned from her close and subtle observation of parent-teacher conferences, renowned Harvard University professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot has written a wise, useful book about the ways in which parents and teachers can make the most of their essential conversation—the...
by Meriam Wilhelm
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2013
Getting kids into bed, every night and at a preferred time can be one of the toughest challenges a parent can face. If you are struggling with the whole night time process, I'll share with you a few steps that you can take to remedy your nightly drama. End each night following my mantra Bath, Book & Bed.
by Bonnie Lathram, Tom Vander Ark, Carri Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
We spend a lot of our time creating and sharing resources for educators and parents (who are often one and the same audience). Time and time again, we observe that families are left out of the equation when it comes to determining the primary audience for education reports, papers and articles—even...
Testing for Kindergarten
Simple Strategies to Help Your Child Ace the Tests for: Public School Placement, Private School Admissions, Gifted Program Qualification
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Karen Quinn has successfully taught hundreds of parents how to prepare their children for testing, and Testing For Kindergarten is her ultimate, comprehensive guide to having fun while teaching to the underlying abilities every test assesses.
Whether your child is going to a private kindergarten...
by Anne Robinson Bruce M Shore Donna L Enersen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2006
Best Practices in Gifted Education provides concise up-to-date research-based advice to educators administrators and parents of gifted and talented youth. The 29 practices included in this volume are the result of an extensive examination of educational research on what works with talented youth....
Teaching Learning
Helping Your Kids Gain the Learning Skills They Won’T Get Taught in School
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
Since the 1970s, educators, psychologists and politicians have continually stressed the need to help children actually learn how to learn. This groundbreaking book is the first of its kind to do just that. Aimed at parents who want to start their kids off on the right track, this book is actually...
The Challenges of Gifted Children: Empowering Parents to Maximize Their Child's Potential
Empowering Parents to Maximize Their Child's Potential
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Having a gifted child is a joy, but it is also one of the greatest challenges of parenthood to help that child find the right fit for education. In this remarkably insightful text, noted psychologist Barbara Klein, PhD, EdD, explains the emotional and social issues of giftedness, identifies parental...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
An essential read for all school principals and persons engaged in educational policy. Parental interest in faithbased schooling for children has surged and the contents of this book reveal the reasons for this surge. This book provides insights to school choice, support for faithbased schooling, and...
The Self-Propelled Advantage
The Parent's Guide to Raising Independent, Motivated Kids Who Learn with Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Joanne Calderwood has been a popular magazine columnist for several years and has become a very popular speaker at home-education conferences across the country. Her self-propelled philosophy of education has transformed lives across the nation and the world. She is considered a “Mom Magnet” due...
Bridging the Gap
Raising A Child With Nonverbal Learning Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2002
“A special-needs guide that comes to the rescue” (Carol Stock Kranowitz, author of The Out-of-Sync Child) of those who struggle with an increasingly common condition.
Millions of children suffer from Nonverbal Learning Disorder, a neurological deficit that prevents them from understanding...
The Learning Habit
A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting that Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2014
A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works – and what doesn’t
Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments, and seemingly endless amounts of “screen...
by Kelley Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
How To Choose The Best Preschool For Your Child helps you in the decision of enrolling your child in a reputable preschool. It helps answer questions as to whether your child is socially, emotionally, physically and cognitively ready to participate in a daily structured program with a group of other...