School Development

Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children—a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid’s interests, abilities, and learning styles. But what to teach, and when, and how? Especially for first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists.

Parenting has never been the easiest job in the world, but with all the parenting advice out there, it's hard not to become bewildered. Today everybody has a different method for dealing with the madness. And who's to say one method is better than another? How do you choose? The truth is that whatever drumbeat you march to, all parents would agree that we just want our kids to be happy. But in the face of all the many parenting theories out there, happiness feels like it has become incidental.

Now Say This guides parents through a highly practical three-step approach to effectively communicating with children called ALP. It also discusses the power of words in all of our daily conversations. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of parenting and includes actual scripts and precise language for parents to use to set limits with empathy and to use conversations as opportunities for learning. Language is powerful, and the exact words, tone, and nonverbal communication parents use when trying to move through a sticky moment with their child means everything.

Twice a year in the heart of Silicon Valley, a small investment firm called Y Combinator selects an elite group of young entrepreneurs from around the world for three months of intense work and instruction. Their brand-new two- or three-person start-ups are given a seemingly impossible challenge: to turn a raw idea into a viable business, fast.

Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know - such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best. How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget - and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?

Bringing up a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of life lessons, including how to say ‘no’ to a child you adore, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behavior to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence.

Hablar de Inteligencia emocional es hacerlo de actualidad en cuanto al desarrollo de la persona, aspecto que ha estado en auge desde hace unas décadas y cuyo ámbito se ha visto útil no sólo en el ámbito personal si no también laboral. Cada vez son más los estudios que se acumulan sobre los beneficios de un correcto desarrollo de la inteligencia emocional, recomendándose formarse en ello cuanto antes mejor. De ahí que la escuela sea el ámbito adecuado para que los más pequeños e incluso los adolescentes conozcan y desarrollen la inteligencia emocional.

From the best-selling author of Seven Deadly Wonders and Contest comes a thrilling racing adventure. In the world of the near future, the most popular sport is hover car racing. Superfast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race-car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive.

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.

As parents, it is easy for us to look back and see the shortcomings of our own education. Since many of us were taught in public schools, we often have a pretty good idea of what we don't want our children to learn. But what exactly should we give them instead?

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.

In this indispensable handbook, discover the secrets to forging unbreakable bonds with your girls. Unravel the complexities of father-daughter relationships through emotional intelligence, trust, and open communication. Navigate the nuances of generational patterns, breaking free to cultivate healthier and more meaningful connections. This comprehensive guide offers a roadmap for Girl Dads, providing practical strategies, relatable anecdotes, and expert insights to steer you through the challenges of parenting.

Discover how to help your child build the foundations of becoming a respected, successful, and wonderful adult in the future. Do you find parenting to be the most difficult role you’ve ever had to take on, often getting overwhelmed by all the things you have to get done throughout the day? Sometimes, it’s not about being “the best”, but it’s about giving your child the right environment to grow and thrive in. Strengthening your relationship can open a world of happiness for the entire family.

A charming, life-changing fable that will help you rethink your whole approach to time, priorities, and possibilities.

They tricked you but you’re not trapped. We all got tricked into mundane lives. Sold a story and told to chase the ‘dream.’ The problem? There is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if you follow the main conventional narrative. So why don’t people change? Obligations and reputations. They end up chained, strained, and drained of their life force. Sad but true. Most people are miserable in one central aspect of their lives.

In this book, we provide chapter-after-chapter of knowledge, tips, tricks, tools and strategies to help you and your child build skills to flourish! You can help your child develop focusing skills, emotional control, and the ability to plan, prioritize, and organize; Break down large tasks into manageable steps and learn to follow a daily routine and create their own good habits; Tackle forgetfulness, self-awareness, time-management; Learn to avoid distractions and minimize meltdowns; Develop empathy, social awareness, and build friendships.

On an ordinary January afternoon, a disturbing revelation about his wife hurls one man into a maelstrom of public humiliation and heartbreak, and eventually on a spree of run-ins with lawyers, judges, therapists, and law enforcement. Land of July tells the true story of a teacher/student sex scandal that not only shocked an entire school and small suburban community, but made national news. It’s a story filled with countless anecdotes about marriage, trust, infidelity, grief, and the desperate search for hope and family in the face of ruin.

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches, a New York Times best-selling author reveals why these years are so painful, how parents unwittingly make them worse, and what we all need to do to grow up.

The ultimate two-in-one audiobook to help your daughter navigate puberty and build lifelong self-love—designed for girls ages 8–16. Is your daughter feeling overwhelmed by the changes of puberty? Are you searching for an age-appropriate, supportive resource to help her understand her body, manage emotions, and build confidence? You're not alone—and this audiobook is here to help! The Complete Self Care Collection for Girls combines two powerful guides: one focused on puberty education, and one on emotional growth and self-worth.

Are you at your wits end with your misbehaving child? Are you pulling your hair out and losing sleep because they are out of control? What if I told you that parents all over the world are experiencing the same challenges and frustrations disciplining their children as you? You have come to the right place! Quickly eliminate those undesirable behaviors and build an overwhelmingly positive relationship with your child that you never dreamed possible.