Teaching Teens

Don’t want your kid to be your future roommate in retirement? Start their financial education NOW! You'll be surprised to learn that it’s simpler than you’d think, and with a few powerful guidelines to follow and apply, you can drastically change the direction of your kids’ financial futures. Kids just need a little help from their parents while they are still growing up to establish lifelong, financially-healthy habits. The critical step in creating this foundation is starting young and nurturing their financial mindset as they are still living at home.

Drawing from her experiences as an Indigenous scientist, botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer demonstrated how all living things—from strawberries and witch hazel to water lilies and lichen—provide us with gifts and lessons every day in her bestselling book Braiding Sweetgrass. Adapted for young adults by Monique Gray Smith, this new edition reinforces how wider ecological understanding stems from listening to the earth's oldest teachers: the plants around us.

Are you worried that your teen sees the Bible as outdated or boring?In today’s screen-focused world, how can we ensure teens stay rooted in God’s wisdom?Imagine your teen finding strength in 10-minute, digestible Bible stories packed with meaningful lessons. This book bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern-day challenges, making biblical teachings accessible and engaging for today’s teens.

Here Sitomer shares modern methods for keeping students engaged in the “boring” classroom. It’s understandable how school comes second to adolescents dealing with weighty issues in everyday life. That is why it’s necessary to teach teens how to get involved in their education and take responsibility for it.

This program is read by the author. From #1 New York Times bestselling author and the creator and host of the popular podcast, The Happy Writer, comes the ultimate guide to writing with less stress and more JOY. If you aren’t suffering, you aren’t creating. Right? Wrong! Writing can and...

Mogel’s sage advice on parenting young children has struck a chord with thousands of readers and made her one of today’s most trusted parenting authorities. Now, in a longawaited followup, Mogel addresses the question she hears most frequently: what to do when those children become teenagers, their sense of independence and entitlement grows, the pressure to compete and succeed skyrockets, and communication becomes fraught with obstacles.

Unlock your children’s potential by helping them build their strengths. This game-changing book shows us the extraordinary results of focusing on our children’s strengths rather than always trying to correct their weaknesses. Most parents struggle with this shift because they suffer from a...

In 39 Task-Based Language Teaching and Learning Activities: A Very Practical Guide to Using TBL in the ESL/EFL Classroom, you'll get a ton of creative and interesting ideas for speaking, listening, reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, and more to use in your own classroom. The highly detailed descriptions will show you exactly how to use the activities during your lessons. The clearly and concisely explained activities will help you add instructional variety and put the focus back on your students.

In Financial Tips to Help Kids, author Bukky Ekine-Ogunlana draws on over a decade helping children and their parents and her own experience teaching her own 3 children about money management to offer valuable kids’ money advice that will help them to learn the value of saving for college, budgeting for ‘wants’ like toys and cell phone service and building for financial freedom in the future.

This commemorative collection captures the essence of Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s most profound teachings on business, success, management, family, and love. Stephen R. Covey passed away in July 2012, leaving behind an unmatched legacy with his teachings about leadership, time management...

Teenagers face unique challenges when it comes to situational awareness. These challenges are only exacerbated by the constant physical and biological changes teens are subjected to. As young people learn to deal with these changes, they begin to explore the limits of their individuality. Unfortunately, this process often involves unnecessary risk-taking. The key to keeping teens safe during this time is to keep them alert and engaged with their environment. Spotting Danger Before It Spots Your Teens is designed around principles of positive communication, trust, and teamwork.

The Cold War sent shivers down the spines of ordinary people, with the world holding its breath and confronting the spectre of nuclear armageddon. Throughout this A level series, students will learn about all the core aspects of the Cold War in Europe. Written by Dr Mark Hurst, an honorary fellow at the University of Kent and Cold War specialist and Richard McFarlane, a senior OCR examiner and Head of Humanities at Nottingham Girls High School.