Drawing on decades of original research, in Raising a Socially Successful Child, Dr Stephen Nowicki reveals how parents and teachers can equip children with the critical non-verbal skills they need to succeed socially in childhood and throughout their adult lives.Children used to be able to easily pick up social and emotional skills organically, whether through interactions in the classroom, on the playground, or at home. But today, our kids have fewer and fewer opportunities to practice appropriate behaviours, from knowing how far to stand from another child, how long to hold eye contact, or what they are unwittingly conveying through their tone or posture. Parents, teachers, and even children sense that something is wrong, but few of us know what we can do to help children's social abilities. Fortunately, it's not too late for children to learn these essential skills. Here, Dr Nowicki reveals how parents and educators can identify problem areas - and what to do about them. Through exploring the six non-verbal channels essential to social success, readers will discover how to help kids learn: How to tell the differences between one nonverbal cue and another; How to understand what is being conveyed by the non-verbal cues sent by others, and what they are conveying non-verbally themselves; How to apply what they have learned to any and all relevant social situations.Raising a Socially Successful Child is full of simple exercises - over a dozen for each of the six nonverbal channels - that parents and teachers can use to help any child get better at using nonverbal communication: what Nowicki calls the "language of relationships". They include: · Rhythm: Being in sync with others' movements and the pace of conversation· Facial expressions: How the eyes, mouth, and eyebrows are used to convey emotion.· Personal space: The area surrounding others that a child should not enter (unless invited)· Physical touch: Any physical contact that takes place intentionally or unintentionally· Vocalics: The pitch, volume, and speed of speech· Body Language: The signals we send with our movements, hand gestures, and posture.Full of Dr Nowicki's research and simple exercises, this is the perfect toolkit for parents and teachers to help bring the best out of children and equip them with essential tools for life.
Start the first few months of your baby's life with confidence and learn how to encourage your baby to get good sleep with baby sleep expert Heidi Skudder. With 19 years of hands-on experience working with and empowering families, combined with a coaching and psychology background, alongside her own journey as a mother of two sons and a recently born daughter, she has helped thousands of babies get a good night's sleep.Now Heidi is here to empower and guide parents as they navigate the so-called 'fourth trimester' (the first 3-4 months of baby's life). Heidi's approach is gentle - there is no leaving baby to cry, or strict routines to follow, rather a holistic approach that includes things like bedtime rituals, advice on feeding, reflux, napping, routines and everything else that might affect how your baby sleeps.With easy to follow tips and advice, The Baby Sleep Book is the ultimate baby sleep guide to help busy mums and dads encourage a happy, good sleeper and create a calm family atmosphere.
Is it time to change gear? Take back control by learning to adjust your brain's speed and efficiency.In today's Information Age, we move through life at a frantic pace to keep up with the never-ending influx of information and daily tasks. Bombarded with data every waking hour, it's no wonder our brains are feeling overwhelmed and overloaded.In Hyperefficient, Dr Mithu Storoni lays out the tools to retune our brains to the best settings for complex thinking, creativity, concentration, and decision-making. Based on intriguing scientific research, Hyperefficient is a must-have practical manual for your brain. Discover how to reach a brain state where prolonged mental work feels effortless - learn to thrive amidst the deluge of digital information at work, at home and in your whole life - become 'hyperefficient'.
Forget the latest trends, and design your home and garden intuitively - not formulaically!To fully relax, rest and heal, our homes need to be a sanctuary. Unfortunately, most aren't because they're not designed to meet the demands of our stressful, 24/7 lifestyles dominated by technology. The Healing Home & Garden invites you to take an objective look at your home and how you're living in it, and to question whether it is truly supporting your wellbeing. The book suggests new ways to create healing and nurturing spaces using your own intuition. By rethinking our living environments, we can break unhealthy habits, and form new ones that are right for us as individuals - which will ultimately make us happier, less stressed, and healthier.This inspiring and practical guide is full of cost-effective, innovative solutions for spaces of all sizes, with no building works required. Each chapter also features insights from world-renowned intuition coach and best-selling author, Sonia Choquette.
Money Maker is the one-stop-shop to teach you practical tips and tricks you need to turn yourself, your home, technology, spare time and much more into hard cash and almost instant gratification! Each chapter will delve into key areas of your life and help you release the value within it. Whatever age or stage of life you are at, you have the resource to find more money, if you know how - and you can have a ball, and even make new friends and save the planet along the way! Packed with case studies and helpful tools, Money Maker will surprise and inform you as you start to see the value in everything you already have.
It's 2056 and international oligarchs have pushed the world to the precipice of ecological, economic, and nuclear catastrophe. But two philanthropists have teamed up to establish a long-term colony on Mars. Could this daring outpost be the next chapter in the story of the human race? Assembling a crack team of experts including scientists, engineers and ecologists, the colony begins to establish a viable outpost on our nearest planet. But the team quickly run into problems as they bear the responsibility of creating a new humanity. Can they work out what has gone wrong before it's too late? And will the passengers of the last voyage from earth bring what's needed for this fledgingly community to flourish? This first volume in a thrilling new trilogy from Brian McLaren, explores what it means to be human and what would we choose to bring with us or leave behind, if we were to start all over again.
'In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray cloak, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and coronets, and the fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly simplicity. Seated with the royal family, she was a part of them, yet somehow distanced from them. Inasmuch as she is remembered at all today, it is as this shadowy figure in gray nun's clothes...'Princess Alice, mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own family. She was born deaf, at Windsor Castle, in the presence of her grandmother, Queen Victoria, and brought up in England, Darmstadt, and Malta.In 1903 she married Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, and from then on her life was overshadowed by wars, revolutions, and enforced periods of exile. By the time she was thirty-five, virtually every point of stability was overthrown. Though the British royal family remained in the ascendant, her German family ceased to be ruling princes, her two aunts who had married Russian royalty had come to savage ends, and soon afterwards Alice's own husband was nearly executed as a political scapegoat.The middle years of her life, which should have followed a conventional and fulfilling path, did the opposite. She suffered from a serious religious crisis and at the age of forty-five was removed from her family and placed in a sanatorium in Switzerland, where she was pronounced a paranoid schizophrenic. As her stay in the clinic became prolonged, there was a time where it seemed she might never walk free again. How she achieved her recovery is just one of the remarkable aspects of her story.
Has the West gone bust - economically, politically and socially? Or is there another way? We in the West appear to be at a year zero, with the seeming end of the relative peace and prosperity we took for granted. The pandemic, Putin's invasion of Ukraine, growing tension with China, a rolling back of globalisation, Brexit, the return of inflation and painful interest rates - all these have shattered the illusions of the world as we knew it. For years our politicians have said they were going for growth and would ensure that those with least would benefit disproportionately from the proceeds of that growth. They've failed. Growth has vanished. The poorest are desperately struggling to heat their homes and to eat. We are at that point where confidence in our fundamental institutions has been undermined by leaders who have an uncomfortable relationship with the truth and by an economy that has mainly served the richest. How bad will it get? And how do we simultaneously rebuild prosperity, democracy and social cohesion? Can we have it all, or will we have to make very significant financial sacrifices in the coming years, knowingly and willingly, to restore that national sense of pride and solidarity of purpose? If the chaos of the last few years mark the end of the old order as we knew it, what will and should follow, to save our prosperity, our democracy and our sanity. It's time to abandon pessimism and fatalism and look for answers. Bust? doesn't have all of them. But it will start an important debate, about how to allow us all to hope again.
A genre-bending story told entirely through interviews about a reality TV crime show that follows a missing girl in America: Cara Hunter meets Serial by way of The Appeal.
The fourth book in the Shady Hollow mystery series sees Vera embroiled in a case involving star-crossed lovers whose affair may have turned deadly.
A lively portrait of life within the mad world of aristocratic privilege and inheritance, from the unlikely 12th Duke of Beaufort.
Loving Kane nearly destroyed Briar once; now that he's Alpha he could be the end of her. Briar Stone has rebuilt her life since her Were lover, Kane, abandoned her four years ago. She's got a job at a supernatural tavern, a loving magi boyfriend, Mason, and a side-gig reading auras. But none of it matters while her younger brother is a few doses away from killing himself with the psychotropic vampire venom he's hooked on. When a series of brutal murders targets the local community, the supernatural conclave is sent in to track the serial killer known as the Wraith. But they need help to find answers. Thankfully, Briar can inhabit the dead's final, painful moments and will do so...in return for the money for a cure. But first she needs a way into the conclave, and her ex has just been made Alpha. He agrees to give her access IF she acts as his mate for the duration of the investigation...with all that entails. Surrounded by the Weres she once hoped to call family, Briar finds herself being dragged back into Kane's world of sex and danger. Balancing her loyalty to her brother, against that of the man she promised to marry, she has to fight her treacherous heart and the growing connection to the lover who ruined her life. But she is not the only one seeking answers. The Wraith has his eyes on her, and he may be closer than she thinks.
'The essence of Jewish life is not the bland performance of the Torah's commandments, but rather love of Torah and the way of life to which it is the guide.'Tap into the wisdom of one the world's ancient religions by meditating on Rabbi Wittenberg's engaging, contemporary, spiritual, social and ethical insights to the Torah. Rooted in decades of devoted immersion in Jewish learning, humanist literature, concern for people at all ages and stages of life, environmental activism and a love of nature, Rabbi Wittenberg offers wisdom relevant to Jews, Christians and spiritual seekers of all and no faiths.Over the hundred and more passages, key issues considered include: Compassion and kindness; Creation and wonder; Emotional struggles; Environment and our relationship to nature; Ethical challenges; Illness and suffering; Identity and community; Justice and Social Justice; Refugees and strangers; Remorse and repentance; Responsibility; Searching for meaning; Seeking God.
From Jeremy Dyson & Andy Nyman, creators of the international smash-hit play and film Ghost Stories, comes a new novel: The Warlock Effect.
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