School Development

Kids today are facing unprecedented pressures—and their mental health is suffering. 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 your family's emotional well-being. Overscheduling, homework, and ever-present electronic devices may make these seem easier said than done, but Dr. Bhargava offers realistic, balanced advice that will help you prioritize health and restore the happiness of childhood.

It doesn’t take a long list of statistics to convince you that our world is broken. Mission trips, service projects, and supporting children through relief organizations are just a few of the ways that many youth workers engage their students in serving the least, the last, and the lost. As...

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.

This interactive spelling practice is all your first, second, or third grader needs to excel at spelling. The follow-along style is optimal for the fastest learning and mastering of spelling.

At 10, we know how girls are pigeonholing themselves into what they think they should be. Whether they see themselves as academic or not, whether they are interested in boys, puberty is a reality, friendship fights are underway and the influence of social media is impacting. With heightened pressure from what they see in the media, in movies and on TV, our girls are leaving childhood behind well before they hit their teens. Not surprisingly, emotions can be heightened and relationships can be fraught.

In meiner Familie hat Rassismus keinen Platz - darin sind sich fast alle Eltern einig. Doch vielen fällt es schwer, Vorurteile in der Erziehung anzugehen. Offen, persönlich und durchaus verständnisvoll für Rassismusfallen im Alltag zeigen Olaolu Fajembola und Tebogo Nimindé-Dundadengar, was zählt, um Rassismen im Kopf von Kindern gar nicht erst entstehen zu lassen. Zugleich stärken sie Eltern von Kindern of Color, die unter Diskriminierung leiden.

Convierte los retos a los que se enfrenta tu hijo en triunfos: Descubre el secreto para criar hijos resilientes, ¡sin sentirte abrumado por los crecientes desafíos de la paternidad moderna! Imagínate estar equipado con una plétora de estrategias, herramientas y conocimientos para ayudar a tus hijos a cultivar la resiliencia ante la adversidad. Esta guía práctica está aquí para ayudarte a hacer precisamente eso.

The Mystery of the Sensitive Child provides a guide for those who parent and mentor sensitive children. By developing our evolving knowledge, we gain a greater understanding as to why some are more impacted by their environment than others. Why do some children feel overwhelmed? Why are they more emotive and compassionate than others? This book offers suggestions, exercises, practical tools, and strategies to assist these children with the challenges of everyday life.

From the bestselling author of College Unbound comes a hopeful, inspiring blueprint to help alleviate parents’ anxiety and prepare their college-educated child to successfully land a good job after graduation. Saddled with thousands of dollars of debt, today’s college students are graduating...

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.

To Stephanie, Andrew Simmons seemed like the perfect man. He was smart, handsome, tall, and athletic. And best of all, he was interested in her. As their romance begins to blossom, the truth about Andrew's past comes to light. A misguided choice made many years before hung over him. When they start a family together, Andrew tries to move on from the past and enjoy his family life, but the past still haunts him.

Get common sense parenting advice with clear suggestions for what you can say and do to start today. This audiobook will not overwhelm you or your child with complex lessons. Instead, you’ll gradually build their competence through simple, everyday activities and conversations they’ll understand and enjoy. You’ll equip them with the skills and confidence to face life’s challenges—without needing another 'how-to' book when they leave home.

You don’t need to be perfect to teach resilience. This book helps you grow alongside your children, giving you tools to strengthen both their grit and your own. By showing them how to rise after challenges, you’ll inspire resilience through your own journey.

"Wie viel Eltern braucht ein Kind? Wie können wir Fürsorgepflicht und Freiheitsdrang vereinen? Und vor allem: Wie kann es uns gelingen, ein gutes, stabiles Beziehungsnetz für unsere Kinder zu knüpfen?" Nora Imlau. Es heißt, es brauche ein Dorf, um ein Kind großzuziehen. Doch in unserer modernen Welt ist es gar nicht so leicht, dieses Dorf zu finden. Schließlich leben wir längst nicht mehr in Großfamilienverbänden zusammen. Und wir wollen unsere Kinder auch nicht irgendwem anvertrauen.

Esta guía pediátrica nos presenta una inmensa cantidad de situaciones que los niños y las niñas pueden vivir, y con espíritu práctico y amable nos lleva paso a paso para tomar las mejores decisiones.

Der australische Familientherapeut Steve Biddulph plädiert für ein neues Verständnis von Jungen: Sie gehen mit Leistungsdruck anders um als Mädchen und geraten häufiger in Schwierigkeiten. Biddulph zeigt Eltern, was in ihren Söhnen wirklich vorgeht, und erläutert, wie sie zu glücklichen und selbstbewussten Männern heranwachsen.

Angstfrei in der Schulzeit anzukommen ist eine Erfahrung, die den weiteren Schulweg eines Kindes nachhaltig prägt und immens erleichtern kann. Es ist ein Prozess, auf den die Eltern viel mehr Einfluss haben, als bislang angenommen. Die bekannte Grundschulpädagogin und Mutter Saskia Niechzial unterstützt Eltern, ihre Kinder aktiv und beziehungsorientiert durch das Vorschuljahr und den Beginn der Grundschulzeit zu begleiten, sie loszulassen und dabei sicherer Hafen zu bleiben – auch bei Gegenwind und eigenen Ängsten.

This is a book that celebrates the most neglected but valuable emotion we can feel: melancholy. Melancholy isn’t depression, rage, or bitterness. It’s a serene, wise, and kindly response to the difficulties of being alive. It helps us navigate a wise and rational middle ground between extreme despair and naïve optimism. But melancholy is a well-kept secret. It isn't celebrated or recommended. It remains relatively unexplored in a hyper-competitive, noisy, frantic age.

Many years ago, when I was a young father of little girls, I told myself I had two choices; I could raise them on accident or raise them with purpose. Noting how loaded the word “beautiful” is for women, I decided to redefine the word with three foundational values I found to be significant and slowly eroding in the world: brave, smart and kind (BSK).

How Coddling Kids Is Killing Kids' Confidence is about a boxing coach (Donté) who shares tips with parents to help them prepare their child(ren) for adulthood. What Donté has targeted in this book is that mental health concerns were happening WAY before the pandemic was a concern, and what he saw was how parenting was causing much of the mental health crisis. Instead of reacting to the variety of concerns parents were coming to him to help their kids with, he decided to be proactive and write a book to help parents at home to solve some of the root problems.