A practical guide to help adults understand the unique mental health challenges facing our children, teenagers and students today.From the rise of AI personal technology to the ability to connect to your loved ones wherever you are, you'd think that we're advancing as a society. But for our young people's mental health such progress has come at a cost.The book examines the key mental health problems impacting young people today (such as depression, loneliness and anxiety) and explains how the lifestyle, culture and world they are living in has a significant mental health impact.Suitable for parents, grandparents, teachers, youth workers and anyone in a position of care or interested in the future of mental health, this book offers tools, exercises and resources to support the next generation.
The Sleepy Little Stone teaches children between 3 - 7 years old learn to how breathe and relax the mind and body to fall asleep.
In this spellbinding memoir, popular CNN anchor Zain Asher pays tribute to her mother's strength and determination to raise four successful children in the shadow of tragedy.Awaiting the return of her husband and young son from a road trip, Obiajulu Ejiofor receives shattering news. There's been a fatal car crash, and one of them is dead. In Where the Children Take Us, Obiajulu's daughter, Zain E. Asher, tells the story of her mother's harrowing fight to raise four children as a widowed immigrant in South London. Drawing on tough-love parenting strategies, Obiajulu teaches her sons and daughters to overcome the daily pressures of poverty, crime and prejudice - and much more. With her relentless support, the children exceed all expectations - becoming a CNN anchor, an Oscar-nominated actor - Asher's older brother is Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Year A Slave) - a doctor and a thriving entrepreneur. The generations-old Nigerian parenting techniques that lead to the family's salvation were born in the village where young Obiajulu and Arinze meet with their country on the brink of war. Together, they emigrate to London in the 1970s to escape the violence, but soon confront a different set of challenges in the West. When grief threatens to engulf her fractured family after the accident, Obiajulu, suddenly a single mother in a foreign land, refuses to accept defeat. As her children veer down the wrong path, she instills a family book club with Western literary classics, testing their resolve and challenging their deeper understanding. She plasters newspaper clippings of Black success stories on the walls, all while running Shakespeare theatre lines with her son and finishing homework into the early morning with Zain. When distractions persist, she cuts the TV cord and installs a residential pay phone. The story of a woman who survived genocide, famine, poverty and crushing grief to rise from war torn Africa to the streets of South London and eventually the drawing rooms of Buckingham Palace,Where the Children Take Us is an unforgettable portrait of strength, tenacity, love and perseverance embodied in one towering woman.
'Grit, twists and great characters. Alex Kane at her finest!' Emma Tallon, author of Her PaybackBeing head of a family is what she knows bestA decade ago, Cara Fraser, wife to one of Glasgow's most notorious gangsters, was left a widow after Kyle Fraser was slain on the city streets. The intervening years haven't been easy - not least as Kyle's murder left her to bring up little Ryan and Sean alone. Now, Ryan and Sean are adults, and honouring their father's memory by rising up to become the top gangsters on the dark streets of Glasgow. Cara's kept her head down, but has spent the last few years vowing to take vengeance on the crime family who killed her beloved husband and left her children without a father. Glasgow gangland is about to discover that a mother will do anything for her family... even murder. A gritty crime thriller that fans of Kimberley Chambers and Mandasue Heller won't be able to put down. Praise for The Mother:'Another fantastic gritty Gangland thriller from Alex Kane. Five stars from me!' Gemma Rogers, author of The Feud'This is a phenomenal read...perfectly written and paced. You absolutely cannot predict this one.' Reader Review'One hell of a book, full of action... five stars from me, especially for the slap bang ending that I didn't see coming.' Reader Review'I love her ability to make each character likeable, even the bad guys. I'm counting down the days till the next book by this author. Highly recommended.' Reader Review'Another jaw dropping explosive read from Alex Kane, her writing just gets better and better every time.' Reader Review'This was addictive, fast paced and ruthless. I loved it. A brilliant story line kept me hooked and wanting more.' Reader Review'Action packed, gripping and I found it hard to put the book down. I never saw that ending coming.' Reader Review'Fast paced, gritty, exciting, highly recommend' Reader ReviewPraise for Alex Kane's utterly unputdownable gangster thrillers:'A must read! Highly deserving of all the stars and completely unputdownable.' Reader Review'A brilliant read. I couldn't put it down - the writing is so good you feel like you're part of the action.' Reader Review'So gripping and unputdownable...Fantastic, with loads of full on action. I loved it all.' Reader Review'Wow. These books just get better and better...just brilliant.' Reader Review'I read this book in one night and all I have is 3 words. Oh my god.' Reader Review'I was gripped from page one and had sleepless nights because I couldn't put it down. Worth way more than five stars.' Reader Review
This isn’t your grandma’s parenting book. YouTube parenting vlogger, Michelle Pearson, brings her inspiring and motivating parenting stories, tips and tricks for the modern millennial mom. From what to expect as the pregnancy develops to the milestones within the first 12 months, Michelle knows that the journey will have highs, lows and the occasional unexpected surprise on social media.
Do you think motherhood is messy, along with messy houses, messy rooms, and messy clothes? If your answer is yes! Then yes! It is. It's messy and beautiful. The book is divided into two sections: Healthy Pregnancy: Pregnancy is divided into three phases called the three trimesters and I have tried to cover all the unique issues and events that occur in each trimester, answering the questions that most mothers or to-be-mothers have. A few topics include healthy diet plans and exercise, maintaining self-love, garbh sanskar, packing your hospital bag, and how prepare yourself for the D-day. Cherish the Motherhood: At the end of nine months, you are able to hold your baby in your hands and see him or her for the first time. You are now officially a 'Mother'! The second part of my book is about the so-called official motherhood stage once the baby is delivered. How can you take care of yourself in the postpartum period? How has your role as a mother changed now? You must read this book if you: Are a first-time parent Are scared of pregnancy Want to cherish motherhood What can you expect from this book? Fitness and diet plans for the three trimesters Garbh Sanskar and the right techniques Personal experiences of mothers Positive visualization and thinking methods How to deal with postpartum depression and weight Experts interviews The book will help you in having a positive mindset towards pregnancy. It'll also give you a glimpse of what you can expect during and after the pregnancy phase. Motherhood is a beautiful journey but not a destination. This book will help you through this journey like a friend, a guide, and sometimes like a mother or mother-in-law.
Lara was seven when her birth mother died from a drug overdose. With no extended family to look after her, she was put into foster care. The care system failed Lara and now she is failing her son.
This book provides parents and teachers of children on the autism spectrum (aged 2-5 years) with strategies for promoting childrens optimal social, emotional, language, and academic competence. It includes verbal and nonverbal strategies to help caregivers to enter in childrens attention spotlight and expand their interest and joy in relationships with others. The book includes sample adult-child social and emotion coaching scripts for interacting with children and suggestions for modelling, initiating, and prompting social behaviours and joint activities. Also included are other connection and communication strategies such as sensory games, visual prompts and pictures, gestures, pretend and puppet play, and intentional communication. Through repeated, sensitive and responsive interactions, parents and teachers can learn to enter the child's attention spotlight and to jointly share experiences that bring the child interest and joy. This results in a strong interpersonal connection and gradually leads to the child's desire and ability to communicate and share emotions and experiences with others. This child-focused and developmentally based way of communicating and teaching leads to a stronger relationship, more emotional connection, more emotion regulation, and less frustration for parents, teachers, and the child!
Aren't babies precious? So is sleep. Your baby is capable of sleeping through the night and this book will show you how. A whip smart and entertaining guide that focuses on WHY babies sleep the way they do, this book arms you with evidence-based and flexible tools that work for every unique situation so that you can teach your baby how to sleep well. This book will help you tackle the thorniest sleep snags, including: Navigating the tricky newborn phase like a pro Getting your child to truly sleep through the night Weaning off the all-night buffet Mastering the precarious tango that is healthy napping Solving toddler and preschooler sleep struggles Sleep expert Alexis Dubief, of the wildly popular website, podcast, and group Precious Little Sleep, imparts effective, accessible, and flexible strategies based on years of research that will dramatically improve your child's sleep. You'll love the practical solutions and the way she presents them.
Co-parenting is hard enough... you shouldn't have to go through it stressed out.The Custody Parent Planner is a one-stop shop to help mothers, fathers, parents, and guardians keep track of all things relevant to their child(ren). Whether it's writing positive affirmations to stay focused or keeping track of mediation and court case dates, this monthly and daily planner helps you be consistent with the needs and responsibilities of your young one.
In Everyday Dad, Tim Delmont traces his ten-year journey as a single dad to his two young children. He describes the challenges he faced, his mistakes and joys, and the lessons learned from his unpredictable, life-changing experience.
This book is an introduction to the role played by Spanish formal education in providing feminist pedagogies to adolescents and young people, throughout the first two decades of the 21st century. The authors combine a sociological, historical and pedagogical perspective.
After discovering that Shelley's youngest child had verbal communication delays and later being diagnosed as having Autistic Spectrum Conditions, she chose to look at life through the eyes of the child. Shelley was guided to look deeper into understanding him on a soul level and was intuitively learning new strategies to assist with his unpredictable emotions. This naturally created the space to support his siblings in the same way by exploring deeper beneath the surface and discovering that they both found it incredibly difficult to learn in todays' mainstream school environments. Shelley embraces the spiritual and human aspects of life as a parent, as a fresh perspective was needed for her family. She learned of the impact early trauma had on her style of parenting and so it became her mission to reach other parents walking the same path.In this book, Shelley talks about her mental health journey and how a holistic approach to recovery and energy healing helped her make sense of childhood trauma and experienced birth trauma. She explains how parenting opened her eyes to a broken education system and how a 'one size fits all' approach within mainstream school doesn't address the needs of every individual. Each child should be entitled to embrace a unique learning experience.
As we grow up, our moms are the lenses through which we see our lives-and even as adults, they anchor us and give us comfort. While our moms always offer us wisdom, when they get in their 90s, things get a little crazy-and sometimes downright hilarious.At least, that's been true for Bonnie Lorber Habyan's 90-year-old mother Bess.In The World According to Bess, Habyan has created a funny memoir that weaves her mother's wit, wisdom and warm-hearted sentiment into a tapestry of hilarity that has been fittingly described as a cross between Chicken Soup for the Soul and Sh*t My Dad Says.By capturing Bess's many anecdotes and aphorisms, Habyan reflects warmly on a lifetime of wisdom from a one-of-a-kind woman and all the laugh-out-loud memories they've shared. The result is a quick and quirky roadmap to living an authentic life and becoming your "Bess-t" self.Spanning topics of life, love and keeping up appearances, The World According to Bess is a feel-good book for women offering zany humor and uplifting guidance on how to keep life simple and meaningful-even if the world around us seems to be losing its mind.
When I decided to try my hand at writing I knew the topic I wanted to write about something that would help young people to see that life doesn't have to be filled with guilt and pain if we just follow God's plan for humanity before we make all the wrong choices.
Our world has an identity crisis.Have you ever wondered who you really are, or why you are even here in the first place?Every day, people struggle to find acceptance and significance in an increasingly impersonal and fractured society. But despite their best efforts, too many are left empty and hopeless.Jack Shumate has been there. In Heaven's Highest Priority Jack tells a story, his personal journey of finding right identity, significance and healthy influence with transparency, vulnerability, and raw honesty. He addresses the need for fathers and church leaders to embrace what is most important to the Father in heaven: right relationships with Him and with others. Everything we do starts with how we believe and not only in what we believe. Heaven's Highest priority will challenge you to think outside the box, to love like Jesus and see others as He sees them. We have a heavenly Father that's madly in love with an orphaned world and He wants people in safe and loving family of believers that challenge, empower and release. This is the heart of the good news! All of heaven is shouting this message but are we listening?"For the fatherless and the father-to-be - we all need this truth." David Englehardt Pastor, lawyer, author Good Kills
Our world has an identity crisis.And often, our churches do as well.Every day, people struggle to find acceptance and significance in an increasingly impersonal and fractured society. But despite their best efforts, too many are left empty and hopeless.A pastor for many years, Jack Shumate understands how often we find our significance through what we do, what we build, how we minister; or even how influential we have become, instead of understanding our importance to our heavenly Father and how influential we can be simply by resting in who we are as his sons and daughters.In Heaven's Highest Priority he recounts his journey to discovering identity, significance, and healthy influence, writing with vulnerability and raw honesty. He found that healing comes when we embrace what is most important to our Father in heaven: a loving relationship with him and with others.Our heavenly Father is madly in love with this orphaned world, and he longs to see people in safe and loving families that challenge, empower, and release them to become more than they ever dreamed."Pastor Jack does an amazing job of weaving his life experience and the Scriptures together to teach us about God's healing power, giving us a new perspective on the Father's heart and what biblical ministry should look like in the post-COVID era of the church." Michael Esposito Director of Regional Reclaim Ministries International
The author, Joe Barnes, had a unique opportunity to interview several parents and teachers of high performing students within the United States and around the world. He wrote this book to share his learnings from those conversations and offer his heart-felt advice on what it takes to be an A student. In this book, he shares his perspectives on what it takes for a student to be successful in the classroom. This book provides detailed discussion and step-by-step guidance on the following: - How students of all ages can succeed in school and make A's - How students and parents can work together to achieve academic success - How to use checklists to guide at-home studies and help students prepare to take a test - How students can use their testing experience to improve and do better on the next test - How parents can start their children on the road to academic success at an early age - Student wondering how to improve test scores and make better grades - Parent wanting to help your student study better and excel in school - College student seeking to raise your grade point average in order to land the best job possible, or - Family member or family friend looking to help others improve academically This Book Is Written For You.
This keepsake box set includes all four of the beautiful Wild + Free activity books, designed to stimulate children's minds, instill a lifetime love of learning, and bring families closer together all through the year. Filled with fun crafts, creative activities, ways to play and explore outside, step-by-step color photographs, inspiring essays by other mothers, and more, this collection will spark children's curiosity and wonder and help families connect and deepen their bonds. The four books included are: Wild + Free Handcrafts: Crafts in a variety of styles, with step-by-step instructions and photos.Wild + Free Nature: Ideas for ways to get outside, seek adventure, and enjoy the outdoors. Wild + Free Holidays: Create fun new holiday traditions with your family. Wild + Free Book Club: Packed with book club activities including games, discussion questions, menu and décor ideas, suggested reading lists, and more, a fun way for kids to fall in love with reading.
Having Trouble Understanding or Connecting With Your Child or Teenager? It's Time to Change That Using This POWERFUL Parents' Guide to Understanding Your Child's Puzzling Behaviors! As parents, we only want what's best for our kids. But sometimes, what's best for them might not always be fun or exciting. More often than not, parent-child conflicts result from grave shortcomings in listening and communication. Both child and parent might not feel understood properly by one another, resulting in arguments or rebellious behavior. However, much like most conflicts in the world, this can be solved by simply listening mindfully. Parenting your child or teenager can be difficult if they don't understand where you're coming from and vice versa... which is why you need "How to Talk to Your Kids so They Will Listen" by family relationship expert Adam E. Smith. In this guide's 2021 version, desperately misunderstood parents like you will: ¿ Create stronger, better, more open relationships with your kids by learning how to take a step back and really listen when they speak ¿ Get the most recent foolproof tips, techniques, and best practices on how to get your kids to listen to you and truly understand where you're coming from ¿ Deep-dive into the real reasons why your kids won't open up to you about what's really going on in their lives or heads ¿ Get through rough patches with ease by learning how to pay attention to external factors that affect your child or teen at different stages of their lives ¿ Discern whether your child or teen deserves to be punished for their actions without making them feel like you're against them ¿ And so much more! Even if you've felt that your child or teenager has never listened or understood where you stand in their lives, that's all about to change. If you get a copy of "How to Talk to Your Kids so They Will Listen" now, you'll finally uncover the tried-and-true secrets that most successful parents have used in order to create open, honest, and loving relationships with their kids! So, what are you waiting for?
Prenumerera på vårt nyhetsbrev för att få fantastiska erbjudanden och inspiration för din nästa läsning.
Genom att registrera dig accepterar du vår personuppgiftspolicy.
