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Helping Foster Children In School: A Guide for Foster Parents, Social Workers and Teachers
John DeGarmo · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
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Helping Foster Children In School explores the challenges that foster children face in schools and offers positive and practical guidance tailored to help the parents, teachers and social workers supporting them. Children in care often perform poorly at school both in terms of their behavior... |
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Preparing for Adoption: A Guide to Introductions and the First Few Weeks
Julia Davis · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
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The ideal first book for prospective adopters. When you decide to adopt a child, you might assume that all the important work begins when the child comes to live with you. In fact the preparation stage before is crucial in ensuring that the adopted child will arrive to a safe and secure... |
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What to Believe When You're Expecting: A New Look at Old Wives' Tales in Pregnancy
Jonathan Schaffir · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 168
Format: Hardcover
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Pregnant women encounter advice from many directions about how to have a healthy pregnancy - not only from health care providers, but from relatives, friends, and the Internet. Some of these pieces of advice (on topics that range from inducing labor to telling the baby's gender to improving... |
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Girls and Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Peggy Orenstein · Harper
Pages: 303
Format: Print book
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The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a groundbreaking picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post-princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. A generation gap has emerged between parents and their... |
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Digital Kids: How to Balance Screen Time, and Why it Matters
Martin L Kutscher · Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pages: 144
Format: Print book
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For many children and teens daily Internet use is the norm - but where should we draw the line when it comes to digital media usage? This handy book lays out the essential information needed to understand and prevent excessive Internet use that negatively impacts behaviour, education, family... |
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Permission to Parent: How to Raise Your Child with Love and Limits
Robin Berman · Harperwave
Pages: 253
Format: Hardcover
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After being bombarded by parenting fad after parenting fad, moms and dads finally have a friendly, commonsense guide to raising thriving children.Today, many parents have rejected the dictatorships they resented from their own childhoods. But they overcorrected by turning into child-pleasers.... |
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The Unofficial Guide to Adoptive Parenting
Sally Donovan · Jessica Kingsley; 1 edition
Format: Print book
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This is another book about adoptive parenting. Probably not the kind of parenting you hear about in training, or read about in text books, but the real stuff dynamic, messy, baffling adoptive parenting, rooted in domestic life. Adoptive parent Sally Donovan combines her knowledge of trauma... |
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The Anti-Test Anxiety Society
Julia Cook · National Center for Youth Issues
Format: Print book
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Bertha Billingsworth (BB for short) is basically a happy person until she has to take a test. To her, the word test stands for Terrible Every Single Time, because that's how she does on them, TERRIBLE! Whenever I see or hear the word test,The hair on the back of my neck stands up.My... |
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Cruising through Caregiving: Reducing the Stress of Caring for Your Loved One
Jennifer L. FitzPatrick · Greenleaf Book Group Press
Pages: 344
Format: Print book
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Caregiving is no vacation, but you can cruise more smoothly through it! If you're facing the daunting reality that you're about to become a caregiver--whether you planned for it or not--Cruising through Caregiving is the down-to-earth and authoritative answer you need. Jennifer... |
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The Toddler Brain: Nurture the Skills Today that Will Shape Your Child's Tomorrow
Laura Jana · Da Capo
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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What if, despite the best of intentions, we are raising our children to succeed in a world that no longer exists? The Toddler Brain helps parents recognize the connection that exists between their own parenting behaviors and their child's ability to acquire valuable twenty-first-century... |
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