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Potting training can be a frustrating time for both parents and toddlers. This book is designed with the idea of making this tasks as easy and fun as possible for you and your child. The same process isn''t going to work with every child; therefore we have put together several ideas for you to try. Each child learns at a different pace and will respond differently to different methods. Nothing about potty training is set in stone and there is no one hundred percent cure to make it happen over night. All of the ideas in this book have been tried and have been proven to work.If you are thinking you have tried everything; chances are there is going to be a minimum of one idea in this book you haven''t tried and that might just be then one you are looking for. Reading this book is going to benefit you and your child; it could even put a whole new spin on the way you once thought of potty training. As you read you will probably come across ideas and suggestions that you have heard about in the past and some of the suggestions you may think are just a little over the top; that''s okay, not every suggestion is for every style of parenting. We want you to read the book and make decision based on your style of parenting and what you know that your child will respond to.During this book with will cover the following topics and break them down by chapters to make it easier for you to reference back when needed: Traditional rules of potty training. Using incentives for potty training. Making the potty fun. Making the potty fun. Parent need to knows. Potty training product suggestions. Getting Your FREE BonusRead this book to the end and see "BONUS: Your FREE Gift" chapter after the introduction and conclusion.

A Polar Bear Christmas tells the delightful tale of two children, Audrey and Pierre, who befriend a baby polar bear at the Central Park Zoo. On Christmas Eve, the two help the baby bear escape for a tour of the town. What follows is an adventurous, hilarious story that captures all the heartfelt magic of New York City at Christmastime. A book the whole family will enjoy. Perfect for reading aloud.

Faith has beauty, brains, and very high hopes in becoming the best restaurant owner in town. She left her hometown of Atlanta looking for a change and starting her new career in Chicago by invite of her childhood friend, Javon. Javon offers a place to stay at her lakeside two bedroom condo downstairs from her twin sister, Vanessa, in whom Faith can not stand. As the story unfolds with Faith finding out the truth about her roommate, she begins to fantasize each day of Vanessa''s fiance, Alex. With each page turn, truths are being revealed, friendships and love are gained and lost, but ultimately it would be As Faith Would Have It.

For the past twenty years, the data visualization movement has reworked the way we engage with information. It has brought fresh excitement to researchers and reached broad audiences. But what comes next for data? I seek to create example "Data Experiences" that will contribute to developing new spaces of information engagement. Using data from Silent Spring Institute''s environmental health studies as a test case, I explore Data Experiences that are immersive, interactive, and aesthetic. Environmental health datasets are ideal for this application as they are highly relevant to the general population and have appropriate complexity. Dressed in Data will focus on the experience of an individual with her/his own environmental health data while BigBarChart focuses on the experience of the community with the overall dataset. Both projects seek to present opportunities for nontraditional learning, community relevance, and social impact.

In a 1981 New York Times review of Dan Fogelberg''s The Innocent Age, Stephen Holden claimed that the album''s lyrics were, "perhaps the most spectacular example of artistic overreaching that the singer/songwriter genre has produced.&" Other critics at the time also disdained the album as too serious or ambitious (Pond; Browning). Holden and his contemporaries clearly did not foresee the album''s subsequent commercial and financial success nor its value as musical art. Through music-text analysis and considerations of historical context, I argue that The Innocent Age was not only a commercial success but also worthy of recognition as an artistic achievement, and that it is indeed a song cycle. This thesis will inform issues related to music-text analysis and analytical methods drawn from those of concept albums and song cycles. Sources for this thesis include album reviews, Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe, the score, recordings, published interviews, survey data, and other secondary sources.

The aim of this research was to investigate the barriers to effective type two diabetes self-management faced by people in rural and remote areas of Australia. This research is timely for several reasons including the current rise in the prevalence of type two diabetes across the world (International Diabetes Federation [IDFJ, 2009), and data supporting the fact that that type two diabetes is poorly managed, especially in rural and remote contexts (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare [AIHW]. 2008a). Specifically, the research presented in this thesis aimed to identify barriers to effective self-management in rural and remote areas, to develop a tool for the measurement of these barriers, and to determine the importance of barriers to self-management in diabetes-dependant quality of life in both rural and urban populations. A mixed methods framework was adopted to address the aims of this research. This approach involved two separate but related data collections and three separate data analyses. Study 1 utilised the methods proposed by Braun and Clarke (2006) in order to conduct a thematic analysis regarding barriers to self -management. Semi-structured interviews with health professionals (n=18) and people with type two diabetes (n=10), and one focus group with people with type two diabetes (n=8) provided the data for this thematic analysis. A socio-ecological framework was used to organise identified themes. Results of Study 1 were subsequently used to inform the development of a survey for collecting quantitative data, which were used in Study 2 and Study 3. Study 2 used Principal Components Analysis to validate an adapted measure of barriers to effective type two diabetes self-management in a mixed rural and urban population (n=326). Study 3 utilised univariate and multivariate analyses to investigate both the demographic predictors of barriers to self-management, and the barrier predictors of diabetes-dependant quality of life in rural and urban populations. Study 1 identified barriers to effective self-management at intrapersonal, interpersonal, organisational and societal levels of influence. Across all levels of influence, the difficulty of maintaining lifestyle changes was emphasised. Results of Study 2 indicated that the adapted survey was valid in a mixed rural and urban population. Age, number of complications and remoteness were identified as significant predictors of various barriers to self-management in Study 3. Diabetes-dependant quality of life was similar in the rural and urban populations. Psychosocial barriers to management were the only significant predictor of diabetes-dependant quality of life in the rural population, while depression, psychosocial barriers and self-monitoring barriers were significant predictors of diabetes-dependant quality of life in the urban population. The research presented in this thesis identified barriers to effective type two diabetes self-management in rural and remote areas of Australia, and indicates that, of the barriers identified, psychosocial barriers are the most important in predicting diabetes-dependant quality of life in both rural and urban populations. These results have useful implications for provision of care in that they lend support to the principle that psychological and social factors must be taken into consideration if the goals of type two diabetes self-management, specifically improving quality of life, are to be realised across settings.

This groundbreaking book explores the current state of doctoral education in the United States and offers a plan for increasing the effectiveness of doctoral education. Programs must grapple with questions of purpose. The authors examine practices and elements of doctoral programs and show how they can be made more powerful by relying on principles of progressive development, integration, and collaboration. They challenge the traditional apprenticeship model and offer an alternative in which students learn while apprenticing with several faculty members. The authors persuasively argue that creating intellectual community is essential for high-quality graduate education in every department. Knowledge-centered, multigenerational communities foster the development of new ideas and encourage intellectual risk taking.

Have you ever wondered how the animals in the zoo start their day? Take a look and count your way through the Morning Zoo. The monkey is peeking right back at you while the baby lion wakes up to his daddy''s roar. Find out what the other animals are doing in the Morning Zoo!