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"When parents are told their child has a learning disability, they need more information. Thinking Differently is just the resource to meet that need. David Flink, leader of Eye to Eye, a national mentoring program for children with learning differences, explains each learning disability in layman's terms to prepare parents to speak knowledgeably with teachers about their child's specific challenges..."
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Raise calmer, happier, healthier children with these fun, hands-on nature activities for parents and kids to enjoy together.
Are your kids stressed? Are they feeling a bit down? Do your children-and you-need a break from screens? Nature can help. What we all suspected intuitively for generations, science has now confirmed: spending time connecting to nature is a safe, effective tool to help improve our health and happiness.
In Finding Ecohappiness,...
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An "excellent true-crime study" of a female serial killer given the death penalty for poisoning at least three men between 1973 and 1989 (Publishers Weekly).
Widowed Blanche Taylor Moore was about to lose her second spouse to symptoms that mysteriously mirrored those that killed her first husband-as well as her previous boyfriend. When an investigation reveals arsenic poisoning, the hideous truth about the wife and mother comes to light. Did the abuse...
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All Teens Need Help Preparing for The Adult World. For Parents of an ADHD Teen, Additional Navigation is Essential-Starting Today!The Average Human Brain Isn't Fully Developed Until Around the age of 25. That's Already 7 Years Into Adult Life.When you Consider the Neuro Differences Between a Typical Brain and an ADHD Brain, Your Teen May Have Greater Developmental Challenges.Think of How Hard it is to Sit Down and Dedicate Time to Your Budget or to...
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Get the whole gang outside and enjoy hours of family fun! Discover the pleasures of lawn games with this guide to 40 time-tested favorites - from classics like capture the flag, croquet, badminton, and bocce to the lesser-known Cherokee marbles and kubb. Authors Paul Tukey and Victoria Rowell provide a quick overview of the basic structure of each game, then offer playing strategies and tips for creating fun variations. Spice up those long summer...
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What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and...
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¿Está buscando un programa de entrenamiento paso a paso para reiniciar su vida familiar y prosperar en un mundo pospandémico, siempre con una sonrisa?
¡Entonces, necesita este libro!
¿POR QUÉ ESTE LIBRO PUEDE AYUDARLE?
En la vida, es difícil evitar el impulso conveniente e impetuoso de posponer las cosas y dejar de lado compromisos importantes.
Es igualmente difícil evitar situaciones y sentimientos negativos dentro de la familia en estos...
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So much depends on how you look at things: Are you a glass-half-empty person, or do you discover advantages where other people find only weaknesses? When it comes to raising healthy, happy kids, positive encouragement and support can work miracles where attempts to change and control create frustration and resentment. In her first book, The Gift of ADHD, psychologist Lara Honos-Webb offers a positive, strengths-affirming new way to look at kids who...
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By the author of the bestselling parent book 1-2-3 Magic. For the estimated 20 million Americans with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder comes the third edition of All About ADHD by Dr. Thomas W. Phelan, an internationally renowned expert and lecturer on child discipline and ADHD. Completely updated with the latest research and treatment information, All About ADHD is a comprehensive guide to ADHD's symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in children...
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Discover how to let your child's voice be heard through the power of games, books, and toys... even if you feel completely helpless and out of ideas. Does your child have delayed speech and language skills, but you're not entirely sure what this means?
Are you afraid that your child may never learn to talk or will learn to talk too late? You want your child to speak earlier than the neighbour's kids, but this leads to a lot of frustration and guilt......
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Meet the Latino children ripped from their parent's arms at the U.S. border.
You'll discover raw accounts of their struggle to survive alone in systems never designed to raise them. Do No Harm is the gripping insider account of a humanitarian crisis that enables abuse, sex trafficking, drug use, teen pregnancy, and death. This is a riveting book that empowers you to become an agent of change.
Inside you'll explore:
• The horrifying pipeline between...
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Parenting is an incredible adventure, but for those raising children with special needs, the journey can be uniquely challenging and filled with uncertainties. "Unconditional Love: A Parent's Guide to Raising Special Needs Children" is an indispensable resource designed to empower and support parents facing these extraordinary circumstances.In this compassionate and informative book, parents will find a wealth of guidance, wisdom, and practical advice...
15) Special Needs Special Life: 3 Keys to Conquer and Experience Peace while Parenting Special Needs
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"Cuando empecé a escribirte no sabías leer. Ahora que lees lo que otros escritores escriben, quisiera, un poco ansiosa y un poco tímidamente, que transitaras este puentecito de papel y tinta que tiendo hacia ti, que nos encontrásemos en el medio, las dos ya de la misma altura, las dos ya calzando el mismo número de zapatos, las dos habiendo sufrido parecidos dolores, tú creciendo, yo tratando de volver hacia atrás, a los territorios del eterno...
16) What Every ADHD KID Whishes His Parents Knew: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Your AD
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Within these pages, you will witness the importance of faith and the benefits found through therapy. There may be many dark and uncomfortable things about our past that remain ignored, simply because we don't know how to talk about them. Allison Heart invested an intense amount of work on herself and bettering her circumstances. Today, she is sharing her story with readers across the world.
Allison Heart was born into an extremely abusive family....
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Ce livre est un résumé très instructif, facile à lire, clair et simple de ce que les parents doivent savoir sur l'autisme, les troubles du spectre autistique, l'Asperger et les défis comportementaux et émotionnels qui les accompagnent.
La sensibilisation à l'autisme est à un niveau record, et les concepts présentés dans les travaux majeurs sont résumés et discutés ici. Il existe de nombreux défis liés à l'éducation d'un enfant autiste,...
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As a nice Jewish girl raised in an upwardly mobile, status-seeking family, Cassandra Langer never conformed to her mother's gender expectations. When her mother fell prey to a cult leader representing himself as a child behavior expert, Langer was incarcerated for two years as a teenager and barely escaped a lobotomy. The author hopes that those who feel helpless might find some skills to survive and thrive in this book. Her story of surviving 20th-century...
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The Creative Interventions Workbook features useful and effective tools and exercises aimed for survivors of interpersonal violence, friends/family who want to help, and people who caused harm. This companion textto the Creative Interventions Toolkit, also published by AK Press, provides grounded, hands-on lessons to help readers confront and end interpersonal violence of all sorts-sexual, domestic, family, and more. Together they form the feminist...
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Have you been searching for proven strategies to manage your child's ADHD symptoms? If so, The ADHD Lifestyle Series, Volume 1 by Dawn Kamilah Brown, MD, contains vital information to help your child champion their ADHD and function at their optimal level.
After uncovering key factors while seeking ways to manage her own ADHD, Dr. Dawn now exposes food myths, replaces them with facts, and recommends the foods, nutrients, vitamins, and minerals necessary...
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