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Parents in the Spotlight

Author : Tanja Betz

Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich

Page : 351 pages

File Size : 48,36 MB

Release : 2017-07-17

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 3847409247

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Children and parents have become a focus of debates on ‘new social risks’ in European welfare states. Policymaking elites have converged in defining such risks, and they have outlined new forms of parenting support to better safeguard children and activate their potential. Increasingly, parents are suspected of falling short of public expectations. Contributors to this special issue scrutinize this shift towards parenting as performance and analyse recent forms of parenting support.



Spotlight on Young Children and Families

Author : Derry Gosselin Koralek

Publisher : Spotlight on Young Children series

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 42,67 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Child development

ISBN : 9781928896425

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In this collection of articles, the authors address topics such as sharing the care of infants and toddlers, conferencing with families, acknowledging culture, promoting inclusion, and helping families to support learning at home. The book includes a list of key resources as well as questions and activities designed to aid readers in reflecting on the articles.



Ellie, Engineer

Author : Jackson Pearce

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 119 pages

File Size : 48,74 MB

Release : 2018-01-16

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1681195208

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"Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!" -School Library Connection A charming, hilarious illustrated middle grade about a girl who is an engineer--no, not the kind on a train, the kind that builds things! Perfect creative, STEM-powered fun for girls who have interests in how things work. Ellie is an engineer. With a tool belt strapped over her favorite skirt (who says you can't wear a dress and have two kinds of screwdrivers handy, just in case?), she invents and builds amazing creations in her backyard workshop. Together with her best friend Kit, Ellie can make anything. As Kit's birthday nears, Ellie doesn't know what gift to make until the girls overhear Kit's mom talking about her present--the dog Kit always wanted! Ellie plans to make an amazing doghouse, but her plans grow so elaborate that she has to enlist help from the neighbor boys and crafty girls, even though the two groups don't get along. Will Ellie be able to pull off her biggest project yet, all while keeping a secret from Kit? Illustrated with Ellie's sketches and plans, and including backmatter with a fun how-to guide to tools, this is a STEM- and friendship-powered story full of fun!



Hiding in the Spotlight

Author : Greg Dawson

Publisher :

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 23,57 MB

Release : 2009-06-27

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN :

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Summoning all the colors of a Chopin prelude, Dawson has painted a vivid picture of his mother (Mona Golabeck) as a young girl whose musical genius enables her to survive the Holocaust.



How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Author : Adele Faber

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 49,55 MB

Release : 1999-10

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 0380811960

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You Can Stop Fighting With Your Chidren! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know–how you need to be more effective with your children and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down–to–earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Their methods of communication, illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action, offer innovative ways to solve common problems.



Parenting with Patience

Author : Judy Arnall

Publisher : Judy Arnall

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 47,7 MB

Release : 2014-09

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780978050955

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According to a New York Times article, shouting at children is the new spanking. Parents don't intend to shout or yell, but they lose patience and raise their voices. Parenting With Patience is a short easy-to-read book that is full of tips and tricks that really work in the moment of anger to curb yelling. It provides a simple model for dealing with anger to help parents to better connect with children in order to solve everyday normal parenting challenges.



Discipline Without Distress

Author : Judy Arnall

Publisher : Professional Parenting

Page : 444 pages

File Size : 16,16 MB

Release : 2012-09-21

Category : Family & Relationships

ISBN : 9780978050900

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Discipline that you and your child will feel good about! Spanking and time-outs do NOT work. At last, a positive discipline book that is full of practical tips, strategies, skills, and ideas for parents of babies through teenagers, and tells you EXACTLY what to do "in the moment" for every type of behaviour, from whining to web surfing. Includes 50 pages of handy charts of the most common behaviour problems and the tools to handle them respectfully! Parents and children today face very different challenges from the previous generation. Today's children play not only in the sandbox down the street, but also in the world wide web, which is too big and complex for parents to control and supervise. As young as aged four, your child can contact the world and the world can contact them. A strong bond between you and your child is critical in order for your child to regard you as their trusted advisor. Traditional discipline methods no longer work with today's children and they destroy your ability to influence your increasingly vulnerable children who need you as their lifeline! You need new discipline tools!



Tending the Light

Author : John R. Snyder

Publisher :

Page : 306 pages

File Size : 36,31 MB

Release : 2014-12-31

Category :

ISBN : 9780692351581

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John R. Snyder describes in powerful, deep, and lovely language the philosophy, theory, and practice of his Montessori years. John has developed his work with children and with their parents, with guides and with support staff, and with mentors, consultants, and administrators both at Austin Montessori School and beyond. Through his collected writings--writings for this school, as well as for conferences and professional publications--not only Montessorians but all who care about the lives of children can find a source of information, inspiration, and guidance.



Ellie, Engineer: In the Spotlight

Author : Jackson Pearce

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 39,88 MB

Release : 2019-11-05

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1547601868

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Ellie the Engineer is back in a third charming, hilarious, illustrated story filled with creative, STEM-powered fun! "Look out, Junie B. Jones! Ellie the engineer is thinking, making, creating, and showing enthusiasm and brilliance with her creations!" - School Library Connection on Ellie, Engineer Ellie enters a pageant with her best friend Kit, which means lots of glitter, hairspray, and chances to make new friends. After all, Ellie has lots of engineering ideas to help the other girls with their talents, like building a light-up skateboard ramp for Kit! But one contestant, Kit's not-so-nice pageant rival Melody, makes fun of Ellie's tool belt and thinks engineering is messy. And when Melody's rabbit--part of her magic act--goes missing, Ellie knows that she can build a contraption to catch him. But Melody's comments have made Ellie start to doubt herself--what if a pageant isn't a place for engineering? With Ellie's designs and sketches throughout, and her fun guide to electricity and circuits in the back, the continuation of this delightful series will leave young readers laughing and inspired to create.



Into the Spotlight

Author : Carrie Hope Fletcher

Publisher : Penguin UK

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 12,43 MB

Release : 2020-09-17

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0241462126

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Inspired by the much-loved classic Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild, Into the Spotlight is a magical new story from bestselling author and acclaimed performer Carrie Hope Fletcher. Brilliant Aunt Maude visits seasides the world over and has become quite the pebble collector. Pebbles of all shapes, sizes and colours and even one that looked a bit like Elvis Presley if you squinted a bit. Her favourite pebbles, however, are Marigold, Mabel and Morris. One by one, and by strange and unusual ways, each child arrives at the stage door of Brilliant Aunt Maude's theatre in the heart of London, home to an extraordinary cast of performers. There's Dante the miraculous magician, Petunia the storyteller and seventy-year-old contortionists - the Fortune Sisters! But ticket sales are dwindling and the curtains might have to close - for the final time. Until one day, as the Pebbles are exploring the many nooks and crannies of the theatre, they stumble upon something they were never meant to find . . . something that just might save the theatre after all . . .