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Discover the secrets to thriving in any social setting with the ultimate guide for introverts. If you find social situations draining or overwhelming or need to adopt a more extroverted demeanor for work, school, or family events but don’t know how, this book is designed for you. Crafted with real-world insights, practical advice, and motivating examples, this guide will teach you to embrace part-time extraversion to make friends, succeed professionally, and network effectively without feeling exhausted.

Heather Shumaker has sparked much discussion with her "renegade rules for raising competent and compassionate kids". In this follow-up book, she takes on new hot-button issues like banning homework, technology use, and skipping kindergarten. Shumaker offers broader guidance on how parents can control their own anger and move from an overscheduled life to one of more free play.

Finding and choosing a partner is one of the most consequential decisions we will ever make. This guide explains everything from why we have "types" and how our early lives inform our romantic decisions as adults. It sheds light on harmful and repetitive patterns and provides insight on how to break them. Drawing on in-depth analysis, How to Find Love explains our instinct for romantic self-sabotage and provides a crucial set of ideas to help us make safer, more imaginative and more effective choices in love.

¿Estás agotado de los constantes gritos, luchas de poder y la culpa que les sigue? ¿Sueñas con un hogar pacífico donde tus hijos escuchen, respeten y prosperen emocionalmente? Es hora de decir adiós a la frustración y darle la bienvenida a "Crianza Sin Enojo", el paquete de solución 2 en 1 que lo cambia todo. ¡Deja de luchar, deja de gritar y comienza a prosperar! Tu familia merece la paz y la alegría que estos libros traerán.

Providing dozens of activities that can be adapted to meet the needs of every family, The Learning Household is an essential guide to bringing curiosity back to the classroom and fostering an appreciation for the intrinsic value of learning.

Much of today's media tells us to be thinner, richer, and more successful. This book tells us how to be nicer. Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but we can all benefit from practical advice on how to be more patient, better at listening, less irritable, and less defensive. This is a guidebook to the uncharted landscape of niceness, gently exploring the key themes of this often overlooked quality.

From an internationally renowned pediatrician and an eminent child psychiatrist, a guidebook that helps parents through the challenging preschool and first-grade years. Through delightful profiles of four very different children, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Joshua D. Sparrow apply the...

The Montessori method is gaining popularity, and for good reason - it is eminently child-centred and is focused on laudable values such as curiosity, independence and respect. Research shows that Montessori-schooled children are calm, confident, and intelligent, and grow up to become responsible...

What Great Parents Do is an everything-you-need-to-know road map for parenting that you will consult again and again. Psychologist Erica Reischer draws on research in child development and cognitive science to distill the best information about parenting today into bite-sized pieces with real examples, useful tips, and tools and techniques that parents can apply right away.

Bring the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into the digital age, as this book helps guide parents to raise more creative, curious and caring kids—from the founder of the acclaimed education network Remake Learning. Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning introduces a new...

As a film writer and producer in Hollywood, Justin Kornmann has seen and experienced the heights of career success, and the lows of unshakeable anxiety and depression. In this quick, accessible listen, he distills real-life experiences and failures into indispensable lessons that have not only changed his perspective, but transformed his entire life. THE SH!T THEY DON’T TEACH YOU IN SCHOOL is split up into four parts (ACCEPT, LEARN, ACT, THE WHY), sprinkled with inspirational quotes from luminaries like Thich Nhat Hanh, Brené Brown, Gabor Maté, and Jay Shetty.

If you are raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome, it can be a real challenge to find answers to your questions and make decisions while trying to keep pace with the latest developments in research and changes in the growth and behavior of your child. This book comes to the rescue by combining the latest medical information and interventions with clear-cut strategies to help your child thrive at home and at school.

Today’s college-bound kids are stressed, anxious, and navigating demands in their lives unimaginable to a previous generation. They’re performance machines, hitting the benchmarks they’re “supposed” to in order to reach the next tier of a relentless ladder. Then, their mental and physical exhaustion carries over right into first jobs. What have traditionally been considered the best years of life have become the beaten-down years of life.

Oscar Wilde's first play confronts the hypocrisy of public "morality" compared with genuine, private kindness. The reasons for its continued popularity are not difficult to identify: the play's witty dialogue contains many of Wilde's most quoted aphorisms, its stylish setting provides opportunities for elegant presentation, and its cast of memorable characters play out a story which is genuinely moving. This new audio production brings together a full cast worthy of Wilde's creative genius.

Emotional Regulation for Middle School Parents delivers 43 evidence-based strategies to help your child manage emotions, reduce conflict, and grow emotionally — while strengthening your connection at home and at school.

O otimismo é essencial para uma vida plena. No entanto, ele não é um dom natural nem uma qualidade do caráter, mas uma ferramenta preciosa que pode ser aperfeiçoada desde a infância. Depois de muitos anos de pesquisas, o autor e psicólogo Martin Seligman demonstra que crianças pessimistas correm um risco muito maior de ficarem deprimidas, e constata que o otimismo pode ser desenvolvido ao superar desafios, lidar com frustrações e experimentar conquistas individuais.

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite television programs, yet miss the most obvious questions on their history test? Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers.

These letters may be very disturbing to some. The names have been changed to protect the loved ones left behind. They are in no way meant to make judgments on others or cause more pain and suffering. They are a study of human behavior to help others understand the pain and suffering these people went through and encourage others to offer understanding and help when they can.

This book presents a range of areas in which we can seek the meaning of life, including love, family, friendship, work, self-knowledge and nature. We discover why some things feel meaningful and others don't, and learn how to introduce more meaning into our daily lives.

Pediatrician Nimali Fernando and feeding therapist Melanie Potock (aka Dr. Yum and Coach Mel) know the importance of giving your child the right start on their food journey-for good health, motor skills, and even cognitive and emotional development. In this updated, second edition of Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater, they explain how to expand your family's food horizons, avoid the picky eater trap, identify special feeding needs, and put joy back into mealtimes.