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My weird school daze volume 11
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The After School Kids' Care director wants to get into The Guiness Book of World Records, and A. J. and the gang jump in to help him.
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If you want to raise kids that who are self-confident, motivated, and ready for the real world, take advantage of the win-win approach to parenting. Your kids will win because they'll learn responsibility and the logic of life by solving their own problems. And you'll win because you'll establish healthy control -- without resorting to anger, threats, nagging, or exhausting power struggles.
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Homework can be one of the most frustrating of all problem areas for chidlren and parents. In this helpful guide, Rosemond warns against parental interference and demonstrates ways to help children learn to work on their own and to take responsibility for getting the work done themselves.
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An honest account of how raising children among today's unnecessary and often self-imposed chaos is enough to make any parent go crazy. We can start to change this in a grass roots way by providing a more peaceful, fun, and sane way to raising happy, well-adjusted children.
5) Happiness
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This book is a simple little exercise in thinking about what happiness is and what makes us happy. It is written with the young school-aged child in mind. The idea is to encourage positive thinking and to help happiness become every child's habit in approaching each day.
As we all know, life is 10 percent what happens and 90 percent how we react to what happens. I hope this children's book serves as a springboard for happy thoughts and for conversations...
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Tired of preparing the same lunch box meals for your child? Are they not eating their lunch because it is boring and plain? It is time to make a change!Dorothy Lin in this wonderful read showcases some of the best homemade lunch box recipes to try. This is a great lunch box cookbook for parents around the world.
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This book came the night after my last grandparent's life was celebrated, Grandma GG was one hundred plus. Sitting alone in the Hampton Inn Hotel, I jotted down things learned from all four of my grandparents. I was fortunate enough to know all of mine into adulthood, the men didn't teach us as long as the grandmas did here on earth.
This "book" is meant simply for the generations of family after us to know our grandparents through my eyes. Each...
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Anne's Memories
Vignette One – Home Life and Carnival
Birth of George. Black girl in white dress. Father's tailor shop. Finishing collars after hours. Speaking Lithuanian. South Ozone Park. Languages and kindness at the local carnival. The wind, the horse and the vegetable cart. Big barrels in the street. The lost boy.
Vignette Two - Coffins and Markets
The horse-drawn coffin. Live poultry pluck-ing. Words paint pictures. Vision is the soul of...
10) Kindness
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Kindness is a children's book written to show how being kind can give a nice emotional lift to all involved. Both the person offering a kind deed and the person receiving a kind deed walk away feeling a little better. This is a story based on a real event. This interaction took an annoying and unpleasant day and turned into a great day, one which stands out as a day to remember. We all have choices to make as we go through our days. Choose wisely...
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Robbie's family was separated from other families in the Happy Forest for a long time. They didn't know others were judging them for things they couldn't control. When nature provided an opening, the young animals start new friendships. Their discovery leads to happier times in their forest. Their actions are a perfect example of showing kindness first.
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For more than forty years and counting, family psychologist and best-selling author John Rosemond has been counseling parents about how to help children do their best in school. This new book draws on all of that knowledge and experience so that parents can set their kids on the path to success in education, even at age three. Dealing with common problems like how much and what kind of help to give with homework, what to do when a child misbehaves...
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This book Is written from memories of a childhood where there was little to no hope for success. It is about children who were without any store-bought toys or games. The kids were all happy and had no idea they were less fortunate and living in poverty. They just wanted to play and have fun. These are stories how kids became creative and used their imagination, these children created childhood memories and relationships that would last a lifetime....
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Zesta, is a horse of many colors, who helps to guide and comfort all children in their decisions. It is the choices we make in life that teach us through our experiences. These choices can create pleasant experiences or bumpy journeys. Join me in the amazing travel of Zesta as a devoted friend to all children.
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Kids today are facing unprecedented pressures, and their mental health is suffering. As a parent, you may feel burned out and exhausted yourself, and perhaps overwhelmed by the idea of taking on your child's stress. But “Building Happier Kids” offers practical, concrete steps you can take to help your kids and yourself! Dr. Bhargava prescribes taking an intentional pause from modern life's nonstop pace to focus on ways you can meaningfully impact...
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“Sunny Side Upbringing” is a simple parenting toolkit designed to make your life easier and more fulfilled by keeping your family values on the forefront of daily life. Parent educator Maria Dismondy took her greatest advice, research, ideas, activities, and educational resources from over the last 20 years and put them down on paper for us all to benefit from. The result is a month-by-month parenting resource (kind of like "a parent's best friend")...
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Mama Talks to Germs is a children's picture book, which displays a relationship between a mother and her son. When they find out that Pop Pop isn't feeling well and can't have any visitors, Mama starts to teach him about germs. She shows him how they spread, and ways that they can stay safe and healthy. Together, they learn how to have fun in new ways and to be positive when they're missing their loved ones. When the night is coming to a close after...
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Presents strategies for parents of children ages three to twelve to increase academic focus and success, lower test stress while increasing test scores, increase class participation, foster creativity, and improve attention span, memory, and higher-level thinking.
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Help Your Teen Catch the Lifelong Reading Bug. Honey for a Teen's Heart spells out how good books can help you and your teenager communicate heart-to-heart about ideas, values, and the various issues of a Christian worldview. Sharing the adventure of a book lets both of you know the same people, see the same sights, face the same choices, and feel the same emotions. Life spills out of books--giving you plenty to talk about! But Honey for a Teen's...
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