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Executive functions are the cognitive skills that help us manage our lives and be successful Children with weak executive skills, despite their best intentions, often do their homework but forget to turn it in, wait until the last minute to start a project, lose things, or have a room that looks like a dump! The good news is that parents can do a lot to support and train their children to manage these frustrating and stressful weaknesses.

Late, Lost, and Unprepared is a must-have book for parents of children from primary school through high school who struggle with:

Impulse Control (taking turns, interrupting others, running off)

Cognitive Flexibility (adapting to new situations, transitions, handling frustrations)

Initiation (starting homework, chores, and major projects)

Working Memory (following directions, note-taking, reading and retaining info)

Planning & Organizing (completing and turning in homework, juggling schedules)

Self-monitoring (making careless errors, staying on topic, getting into trouble but not understanding why)

Written by clinical psychologists, Late, Lost, and Unprepared emphasizes the need for a two-pronged approach to intervention: 1) helping the child to manage demands in the short run, and 2) building independent skills for long-term self-management. Full of encouragement and practical strategies, the book s organization--short chapters with overviews, summaries, case studies, tips, and definitions--makes it easy to grasp concepts quickly and get started.

Part I, What You Need to Know, provides information about: what executive functions are and how weaknesses in these skills affect development; the impact of weak executive function on children's emotional lives and their families; how professionals assess executive function problems; and associated conditions (AD/HD--children with an AD/HD diagnosis always have executive skills issues--learning disabilities, autism spectrum disorders, Tourette syndrome, etc.).

Part II discusses What You Can Do About It including how to change behavior and set reasonable expectations, and offers specific intervention strategies for children of different ages, varying needs, and profiles.

Late, Lost, and Unprepared is chockful of ideas for helping your child or student be productive and independent--today and in the future..
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As societal expectations about attending college have grown, professors report increasing numbers of students who are unprepared for the rigors of postsecondary education—not just more students with learning disabilities (whose numbers have more than tripled), but students (with and without special admission status) who are academically at-risk because of inadequate reading, writing and study skills.

This book provides professors and their graduate teaching assistants—those at the front line of interactions with students—with techniques and approaches they can use in class to help at-risk students raise their skills so that they can successfully complete their studies.

The author shares proven practices that will not only engage all students in a class, but also create the conditions—while maintaining high standards and high expectations—to enable at-risk and under-prepared students to develop academically, and graduate with good grades. The author also explains how to work effectively with academic support units on campus.

Within the framework of identifying those students who need help, establishing a rapport with them, adopting inclusive teaching strategies, and offering appropriate guidance, the book presents the theory teachers will need, and effective classroom strategies.

The author covers teaching philosophy and goals; issues of discipline and behavior; motivation and making expectations explicit; classroom climate and learning styles; developing time management and study skills; as well as the application of “universal design” strategies.

The ideas presented here—that the author has successfully employed over many years—can be easily integrated into any class..
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The newly released 3rd edition of Before It's Too Late - Don't Leave Your Loved Ones Unprepared is a valuable workbook and a lot more. You will find it to be the most complete estate and funeral-planning guide available Once completed, it becomes an indispensable tool as your loved ones deal with the big decisions and small details concerning your estate. Most of the important information about your personal affairs is kept in your head. This easy-to-fill-out workbook takes you through a simple step by step process of writing down your information covering a wide range of personal, financial and final arrangement details.
You need this book no matter what your age or stage in life such as:
*A widow or widower
*Aging parent
*Single
*Married
*Parents with young children
*An adult with an aging parent
*Young adult children
*The executor of your estate
What if you fall ill and are temporarily unable to make decisions? How will your family manage your day to day business until you are back on your feet? Or, should you pass away, how will your family know about all of your personal affairs? While it is difficult to face your mortality, pre-planning is a gift of love.

Before It s Too Late is divided into three sections:
*Personal Information
*Financial Information
*Funeral Planning

*Personal Information
Important Names and Phone Numbers, Document Locations, and more

*Financial Information
Millions of dollars in life insurance policies, bank accounts and safe deposit boxes go unclaimed because heirs are unaware that those assets exist. Your executor can rely on this workbook to avoid leaving assets unclaimed. Having easy access to this information will also reduce your executor's or lawyer's fees when settling your estate.

*Funeral Planning
Confronting death is not easy. Under the stress of making difficult choices in an emotional situation, your family may disagree or feel guilty about making wrong last-minute decisions. Before It's Too Late creates a complete funeral plan by recording all of your final wishes. Your family will have peace of mind knowing that they are making the right decisions, strengthening their ability to cope with your death.

There are lots of reasons why you may have put off discussing the details of your funeral with the people closest to you. For example:
As a son or daughter of aging parents, you may feel awkward about asking about funeral plans.
You want to talk to your family but there never seems like a good time.
You know what you want but don't feel comfortable discussing your funeral plans.
You want to share your funeral plans, but your family doesn't want to talk about your death with you.
As a single parent, you think your children are too young to deal with the thought of your death.

No one knows the future, so it is never too soon to write your funeral wishes down. There aren't may things that you can do for your family that will help so much and cost so little. Single, married, divorced, or widowed, no matter what your age or situation, don't leave your loved ones unprepared.
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There are moments in life when one is caught utterly unprepared: a death in the family, the end of a relationship, a health crisis. These are times when the solid ground we thought we stood on disappears beneath our feet, and we turn to faith to help us find our way back. The Days of Awe encompass the weeks just preceding Rosh Hashanah up to Yom Kippur, a period in which Jews take part in a series of rituals and prayers that reenact the journey of the soul through the world from birth to death. Like the days of Lent or Ramadan, the purpose of these rituals is to experience this brokenheartedness and open one's heart to God. The acclaimed Rabbi Lew has taken the beauty and power of these rituals and made of them a journey of seven distinct stages that will touch the spirit of all readers in search of inner transformation. Rabbi Lew weaves together Torah readings, Buddhist parables, and Jewish fables and stories from his own life, to lay bare the meanings of this ancient Jewish passage. Drawing on both his rabbinical training and his scholarship in Buddhism, Lew leads readers on a journey from confusion to clarity, from doubt to belief, as he opens a path to self-discovery that is accessible to readers of all faiths.THIS IS REAL AND YOU ARE COMPLETELY UNPREPARED unveils the deeper meanings of the High Holidays, enabling Jews and believers of all kinds to reconnect to their faith with a vibrancy and intimacy that will resonate throughout the year..
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Survival topics include winter survival, constructing traps and snares, poisonous and edible plant distinction, fire making, locating and purifying water, building shelter, protecting your feet, tool construction, fishing, and getting full use of your knife. Almost 300 hand drawn illustrations provided that wil help you identify plants and fungi as well as demonstrate various techniques to be used in the outdoors. Hamper's guide will help you avoid common mistakes and will provide practical advice so that you can make use of sticks, leaves, nails, string, feathers, shells, and even buttons. AUTHORBIO: The late Stan Hamper enjoyed the Scouting program as a young boy, earning the rank of Eagle Scout with Silver Palm and as an adult was the recipient of the Silver Beaver. His hobbies included watercolor portraiture, pen and ink, wood carving, and model design and building, as well as collecting early American lighting. His first book on wilderness survival was sold nationally and served as a textbook by the National Camping Association and the Colorado Outward Bound School. REVIEW: Scouts, hunters, campers, hikers, canoeists, pilots, and all others unprepared to meet the challenge of the wilderness will survive with the help of this book. Originally published in 1963 as Wilderness Survival, the manuscript has been expanded by the author. Sections on protecting your feet, making shelters & beds, finding survivor-friendly plants, enduring outdoor weather, constructing traps & snares, and using fire and your knife are included, as well as much more..
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Firsthand account when a man must take on the role of caregiver .
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