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The Creative Family: How to Encourage Imagination and Nurture Family Connections
When you learn to awaken your family’s creativity, wonderful things will happen: you’ll make meaningful connections with your children in large and small ways; your children will more often engage in their own creative discoveries; and your family will embrace new ways to relax, play, and grow together. With just the simple tools around you—your imagination, basic art supplies, household objects, and natural materials—you can transform your family life, and have so much more fun! Amanda Soule has charmed many with her tales of creativity and parenting on her blog, SouleMama. Here she shares ideas and projects with the same warm tone and down-to-earth voice. Perfect for all families, the wide range of projects presented here offers ideas for imaginative play, art and crafts, nature explorations, and family celebrations. This book embraces a whole new way of living that will engage your children’s imagination, celebrate their achievements, and help you to express love and gratitude for each other as a family. To learn more about the author, Amanda Soule, visit her blog at www.SouleMama.com. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger image. Pages 58–59 Pages 60–61 Pages 62–63.
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The No-Cry Discipline Solution: Gentle Ways to Encourage Good Behavior Without Whining, Tantrums, and Tears (Pantley)
Have the Terrible Twos become the Terrifying Threes, Fearsome Fours, Frightening Fives, and beyond? Elizabeth Pantley, creator of the No-Cry revolution, gives you advice for raising well-behaved children, from ages 2 through 8 In The No-Cry Discipline Solution, parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley shows you how to deal with your child's behavior. Written with warmth but based in practicality, Elizabeth shows you how to deal with childhood's most common behavioral problems: - Tantrums
- Sleep issues
- Backtalk
- Hitting, Kicking and Hair Pulling
- Sibling fights
- Swearing
- Dawdling
- Public misbehavior
- Whining ... and more!
"Pantley applies succinct solutions to dozens of everyday-problem scenarios--from backtalk to dawdling to lying to sharing to screaming--as guides for readers to fashion their own responses.
Pantley is a loving realist who has managed, mirabile dictu, to give disciplinarianism a good, warm name."
--Kirkus "While many books on discipline theory are interesting and enlightening, parents often struggle finding a way to apply the theories. Pantley’s advice is practical and specific. If ever trapped on a desert island with a bunch of kids, this is among the most useful books you could bring along."
--Tera Schreiber, Mom Writer’s Literary Magazine .
Price: $7.55
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Your Self-Confident Baby: How to Encourage Your Child's Natural Abilities from the Very Start
"At long last --Magda Gerber's wisdom and spice captured in a book --what a treasure! Now parents and caregivers everywhere can benefit from learning what it means to truly respect babies." --Janet Gonzalez-Mena Author of Infants, Toddlers, and Caregivers and Dragon Mom "Magda Gerber's approach will deepen your understanding of your baby and help you truly appreciate the complexity, competence, and amazing capacities of the small human being for whom you are caring." --Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D. Director, Infant-Parent Program University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine. As the founder of Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE), Magda Gerber has spent decades helping new mothers and fathers give their children the best possible start in life. Her successful parenting approach harnesses the power of this basic fact: Your baby is unique and will grow in confidence if allowed to develop at his or her own pace. The key to successful parenting is learning to observe your child and to trust him or her to be an initiator, an explorer, a self-learner with an individual style of problem solving and mastery. Now you can discover the acclaimed RIE approach. This practical and enlightening guide will help you: * Develop your own observational skills * Learn when to intervene with your baby and when not to * Find ways to connect with your baby through daily caregiving routines such as feeding, diapering, and bathing * Effectively handle common problems such as crying, discipline, sleep issues, toilet training, and much more..
Price: $8.69
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Nature's Playground: Activities, Crafts, and Games to Encourage Children to Get Outdoors
Introducing children to the excitement of the natural world, this guide to outdoor adventure provides hours of creative, safe, and fun activities Children will learn how to build a den from branches, make twig boats to sail across a pond, and voyage through the backyard to find tiny insects and creatures. Activities include invigorating games, natural crafts, and lively adventures, all of which are organized by season. An additional chapter also addresses safe activities for children after dark. Perfect for families, caretakers, and educators, this creative resource encourages children to turn off the television and play outside all year round. .
Price: $10.36
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Parent Talk: How to Talk to Your Children in Language That Builds Self-Esteem and Encourages Responsibility
THE RIGHT WORDS FOR EVERY SITUATIONDo you find yourself in those maddening situations where you sound like a broken record when talking to your child? Your preschooler won't decide what she wants to wear, regardless of how many times you insist that she just choose; your struggling third grader says "I can't do math," and your "Sure you can!" reassurance falls like a dead weight; your daughter smears on black eyeliner just before the bus arrives, and your daily protests are muted by hers. WHAT'S LEFT TO SAY? LOTS.In Parent Talk, a must-have for every parent with a preschool to high school-age child, Chick Moorman tells you what to say so that you can communicate more effectively -- and peacefully -- with your child in every circumstance, including: - The morning mad dash to dress, eat, and leave the house on time
- The nightly struggle to focus on homework
- The endless car ride of exhaustion-induced whining
- The meltdown in the mall
For instance, Moorman's antidote to the "I can't" loop is "Act as if you've done this before." With Moorman's help, you'll learn the words to use and the words to avoid to end power struggles and the fruitless conversation loops you're stuck in..
Price: $3.75
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O Worship the King: Hymns of Praise and Assurance to Encourage Your Heart
Music has the wonderful ability to speak to our spirits and move us into a deeper worship of God. Especially the great truths of faith that are expressed in hymns. Now some of your most beloved authors share with you the scriptures and stories behind twelve favorite hymns, as well as the daily encouragement and rich spiritual application that you can find in each of them. Through this inspiring work the words that have spoken to your heart in the past will now have even greater meaning each time you sing them. A fully orchestrated CD featuring these glorious hymns is included. Together the book and CD give you a special keepsake and a fresh way to inspire your worship again and again. Listen to 30-second excerpts from the CD- A Mighty Fortress is Our God
- It Is Well with My Soul
- O Worship the King
- O the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
- I Know Whom I Have Believed
- Man of Sorrows! What a Name
- O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
- Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
- Breathe on Me, Breath of God
- O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
- Be Thou My Vision (full song)
- My Faith Has Found a Resting Place
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Price: $1.75
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365 Low or No Cost Workplace Teambuilding Activities: Games and Exercises Designed to Build Trust & Encourage Teamwork Among Employees
Teamwork, effective work teams, and team building are popular human resource topics in today s business world. Successful teams and teamwork in any organization enhance the accomplishments of the individual and enable your organization to serve customers better. Successful team building will have far reaching ramifications. You will instantly improve the way employees interact with each other and you improve their ability to solve problems. Better problem solving means better efficiency, increased morale and productivity, and decreased stress, turnover, and operating costs. Teambuilding improves communication, leadership, trust, efficiency, crisis management, and fairness. In this new jam-packed book you will find hundreds of new low or no cost teambuilding games, exercises, and activities that frankly are fun, easy, and quickly implemented. You will find step-by-step instructions and hints on what to do and what not to do. The programs detailed in this groundbreaking new book will thrill your employees with humor, fun, exciting, memorable, and unique experiences and challenges, while providing your organization with better communication, improved productivity, and higher profitability. Managers will learn how to work as a team, lead successfully, and how to communicate effectively. The atmosphere produced during these sessions helps to keep employees motivated and dynamic. Employees will learn to work together, eliminate stress and burn out, and appreciate the talents of their co-workers while building a sense of corporate identity. These activities are designed to get full participation, ensuring everyone performs at their highest level, while breaking down barriers, and most importantly, everyone will have fun with little actual cost to your organization..
Price: $13.64
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Hands Around the World: 365 Creative Ways to Encourage Cultural Awareness and Global Respect (Williamson Kids Can! Series)
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