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Barefoot Kids

release date: Nov 07, 2022
Barefoot Kids
The new book from author of The Barefoot Investor, the #1 all-time Australian bestseller If you want the kids in your life to be good with money, hand them this book. Teaching kids about money isn''t easy. So let Scott Pape, the Barefoot Investor, do it for you! His books have sold millions of copies and counting ... and now he''s written a guide book you can hand straight to KIDS! No, seriously: this is one book kids will WANT to read. Scott takes them on an epic, page-turning money ADVENTURE - with fun projects, inspiring stories from 45 kids, rewards and real-life stickers. It''s easily the most unique finance book ever written. After all, how many books about money have Slime Queens, TikTok stars and dogs pooping on the page? Kids will roll up their sleeves, get their hands dirty, and learn the value of a buck the old-fashioned way. Over six action-packed steps, Scott teaches kids: Why they should help out around the house for free How to set up their own money buckets How to SAVE for (and get) anything they want (that their parents approve of) How to turbocharge their savings by running their own mini business Why they should use their GIVE bucket to make a real difference to other people (kindness counts!) How to kick-start a lifetime of compound interest by investing with as little as $5 As the parent, you''ll call all the shots, of course - but you won''t have to lift a finger. The kids will do all the work (and they''ll love it!). You''ll be blown away by what they achieve. This book holds the secret to raising smart, resilient, kind and hard-working kids who will grow up knowing how to manage their money. Give this book to every kid you know. It''s the best investment you can make in their future.

Music and Play in Early Childhood Education

release date: Oct 11, 2022
Music and Play in Early Childhood Education
This book provides critical insights into the interplay of sociocultural change and educational practices by elucidating the trajectory of Hong Kong’s early childhood music education system. It presents an extensive analysis of postcolonial music education in relation to globalization, westernization, cosmopolitanism, and nationalization. It makes contributions to the theoretical arguments that can be used to interpret the impact of China on the previously Western orientation of education in Hong Kong. This book also explicitly problematizes the theoretical foundations of mandated policies such as play-based learning and moral education in early childhood through music in Hong Kong and across the globe. The analysis of historical context, political influences, and education ideologies in Hong Kong’s early childhood education subsystem provides fertile ground for a thorough understanding of the meaning and implications of globalization in education at multiple levels. Many empirical-based discussions in this book reflect the ideologies, trends, and practices of music education globally. Framed by Bandura’s social cognitive theory, the empirical studies discussed in the book explore the self-efficacy and practices of education leaders and teachers, reflecting the contemporary challenges of music education. Ultimately, it makes a vital contribution by offering a new conceptual model of music teacher education within a globally resonant framework.

Get Involved in an Art Club!

release date: Jan 01, 2022
Get Involved in an Art Club!
Are you an art enthusiast? If so, an art club might be the right fit for you! Find out what it takes to join an art club or start your own, including information on membership, meetings, and activities. Together, you and your fellow members can participate, create, and most importantly, have fun. Take the plunge, join the club, and get involved!

Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation and Trafficking in the Arab Region

release date: Jun 01, 2021
Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation and Trafficking in the Arab Region
This book presents and brings together research on child sexual abuse from various countries and cultures in the Arab Region. It addresses the multiple types of Child Sexual Abuse Exploitation and Trafficking (CSAET) and responds to the expanding burden of its diverse presentations. The book identifies appropriate structures for efficient programs that are to be accepted and developed by diverse cultures in the region, in order to develop an action plan to combat sexual violence against children. It studies the gathered to date child sexual abuse protection systems in the Arab region, covering issues such as children’s rights, challenges of protection and advocates for peaceful, safe, healthy and happy environments for children and their families.

Seen and Not Heard

release date: Apr 26, 2021
Seen and Not Heard
Discussing the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, Jana Mohr Lone considers how listening to children’s ideas can expand our thinking about societal issues and deepen our respect for children’s perspectives.

OCD in Children and Adolescents

release date: Feb 18, 2020
OCD in Children and Adolescents
In a large-size format for easy photocopying, this user-friendly manual presents a tested treatment protocol for children and adolescents (ages 6 to 18) struggling with obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). Ten flexible modules give clinicians tools for engaging kids and their parents and implementing successful exposure and response prevention activities, as well as other cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) strategies. Each module includes vivid clinical vignettes, sample scripts, “tips and tricks” drawn from the authors’ extensive experience, and numerous reproducible child and parent handouts and worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print additional copies of the reproducible materials, in color.

Prescriptive Play Therapy

release date: Oct 21, 2019
Prescriptive Play Therapy
This book helps practitioners choose from the broad range of play therapy approaches to create a comprehensive treatment plan that meets the individual needs of each child. From leaders in the field, the volume provides a flexible roadmap for assessment, case formulation, and intervention for frequently encountered psychological disorders and adversities. The focus is creating a unique therapy "prescription" that is tailored to the child''s presenting problems as well as his or her strengths, challenges, and developmental level. Contributors present up-to-date knowledge on each clinical problem, describe practices that have been shown to be effective, and share vivid illustrations of work with 3- to 16-year-olds and their parents.

IAP Textbook on Pediatric Endocrinology

release date: Feb 06, 2019

Effective Universal Instruction

release date: Dec 04, 2018
Effective Universal Instruction
This accessible volume helps school leadership teams accomplish the crucial yet often overlooked task of improving universal instruction--Tier 1 within a multi-tiered system of support (MTSS). Strong universal instruction reduces the numbers of PreK–12 students who may need additional services and supports. Providing clear action steps and encouraging guidance, the expert authors present a roadmap for evaluating the effectiveness of Tier 1, identifying barriers to successful implementation, and making and sustaining instructional improvements. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 27 reproducible checklists, worksheets, and forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Children and Environmental Toxins

release date: Jan 01, 2018
Children and Environmental Toxins
"Over the past four decades, the prevalence of autism, asthma, ADHD, obesity, diabetes, and birth defects has increased substantially among children throughout the world. Not coincidentally, more than 80,000 new chemicals have been developed and released into the global environment during this same period. Today the World Health Organization attributes more than one third of all childhood deaths to environmental causes. Children and Environmental Toxins: What Everyone Needs to Know offers an authoritative yet accessible question-and-answer guide to the "silent spring" of environmental threats to children''s health. As the burdens of environmental toxins and chronic disease continue to defy borders, this book will be an invaluable addition to the conspicuously sparse literature in this area"--

The Deepest Well

release date: Jan 01, 2018
The Deepest Well
A pioneering physician reveals how childhood stress leads to lifelong health problems, and what we can do to break the cycle.

Seven Essentials for Family–Professional Partnerships in Early Intervention

release date: Mar 31, 2017
Seven Essentials for Family–Professional Partnerships in Early Intervention
Family–professional partnerships are essential to early intervention practice (birth–age 3). However, building and sustaining these partnerships is complex work. This book is about digging deeper and looking closer at what it takes to have successful relationships with each and every family. The authors explore seven partnership concepts, brought to life through the words and perspectives of families and professionals themselves. New and veteran professionals can use the lessons learned from these accounts to more effectively work with families. Each chapter ends with Questions for Daily Reflection to help early intervention professionals continue to develop their practice. The final chapter describes themes that result from and span the seven concepts as well as the systems needed to support successful family–professional partnerships. Book Features: Provides a set of concrete practices for partnering with families. Presents authentic voices of families and professionals in action. Promotes enhanced reflection as readers apply the lessons learned to their work. Recognizes and highlights the individual nature of each family–professional partnership. Includes tools to help plan, implement, and evaluate the use of the practices described.

Pediatric Hematology

release date: Feb 16, 2017
Pediatric Hematology
A succinct summary of the key principles and facts that guide the everyday practice of modern, clinical paediatric hematology. Covering all the information necessary for examinations in the topic, this book is ideal for postgraduates studying paediatric hematology, as well as for junior doctors in training.

Posttraumatic Play in Children

release date: Feb 07, 2017
Posttraumatic Play in Children
From leading expert Eliana Gil, this book provides child clinicians with essential knowledge and tools for evaluating and working with posttraumatic play. Such play, which is often repetitive and disturbing, may help resolve traumatic experiences--but can also become toxic. The book guides the clinician to determine what is going on with a given child and intervene sensitively and effectively. Evocative case material is interwoven with up-to-date information on the developmental impact of trauma and ways to facilitate children''s natural reparative capacities. A reproducible assessment checklist to help clinicians differentiate between useful and dangerous posttraumatic play can be downloaded and printed in a convenient 8 1/2" x 11" size. ÿ

ADHD

release date: Jan 01, 2017
ADHD
"In a discussion of ADHD treatments, Wender and Tomb stress that drug therapy remains the most effective in treating the disorder. They add, however, that psychological techniques, when combined with medication, can produce further improvement. Wender and Tomb offer practical, comprehensive instructions on how parents of an ADHD sufferer can best help their child. Now a classic work, ADHD grants parents and adults whose lives have been touched by this disorder an indispensable source of help, hope, and understanding"--

Secret Path

release date: Oct 18, 2016
Secret Path
Gord Downie creates a concept album that tells the true story of Chanie Wenjack, an Indigenous boy who died in 1996, trying to escape one of Canada''s residential schools.

Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood

release date: Jun 02, 2016
Language and Literacy Development in Early Childhood
This book provides pre-service and practising teachers with an integrated approach to language and literacy learning in early childhood. Written by leading academics in the field, it explores how children learn to talk, play using language, become literate and make meaning - from birth through to the pre-school years. Emphasising the importance of imagination and the arts in language learning, this book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues, highlights the impact of diverse socioeconomic, language and cultural backgrounds on young children''s language and literacy development, and shows how early childhood teachers can effectively partner with parents and caregivers to help children learn through and about language. Case studies, interviews, reflective questions, clear links to the Early Years Learning Framework and the Australian Curriculum, and a rich array of practical and creative activities for use in early childhood environments help students connect theory and current research to practice.

Child Development and the Brain

release date: Mar 24, 2015
Child Development and the Brain
Packed full of images, case studies, reflection points, this accessibly written textbook is designed to introduce undergraduate students on social science courses to the science behind the brain.

With a Friend by Your Side

release date: Jan 01, 2015
With a Friend by Your Side
Depicts people from around the world and their friends.

Children in the Hellenistic World

release date: Jan 01, 2015
Children in the Hellenistic World
Based on the author''s thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2006 issed under the title: Statues of children in the Hellenistic period.

The Happy Sleeper

release date: Dec 26, 2014
The Happy Sleeper
The science columnist for Babble.com and a Mommy and Me counselor challenges the practices of popular sleep methods to outline mindfulness-based techniques for helping both babies and their sleep-deprived caregivers to sleep in healthy ways. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Moral Laboratories

release date: Oct 03, 2014
Moral Laboratories
Moral Laboratories is an engaging ethnography and a groundbreaking foray into the anthropology of morality. It takes us on a journey into the lives of African American families caring for children with serious chronic medical conditions, and it foregrounds the uncertainty that affects their struggles for a good life. Challenging depictions of moral transformation as possible only in moments of breakdown or in radical breaches from the ordinary, it offers a compelling portrait of the transformative powers embedded in day-to-day existence. From soccer fields to dinner tables, the everyday emerges as a moral laboratory for reshaping moral life. Cheryl Mattingly offers vivid and heart-wrenching stories to elaborate a first-person ethical framework, forcefully showing the limits of third-person renderings of morality.

Pearls and Pitfalls in Pediatric Imaging

release date: Apr 24, 2014
Pearls and Pitfalls in Pediatric Imaging
This collection of over 90 highly-illustrated case studies explores major and confusing problems in pediatric imaging. All relevant imaging modalities are covered, including ultrasound, conventional radiography, fluoroscopy, CT, MR, Nuclear and Molecular Imaging, and Interventional Radiology. The authors present a strategy for recognizing key information in order to reach an accurate diagnosis, and each case includes differential diagnoses and key teaching points, alerting the reader to common pitfalls in the interpretation of pediatric radiological images. This is a highly valuable resource for trainee pediatric radiologists, and general radiologists who encounter pediatric patients. It will particularly help people preparing for exams, including the core exam, the certifying exam or CAQ exams, as well as pediatric radiologists who want to refresh their knowledge on particular topics. It will also be of interest to pediatricians who wish to improve their diagnostic proficiency and understanding of imaging studies.

Ellray Jakes is Magic

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Ellray Jakes is Magic
Third-grader EllRay, a "shrimpy, goof-up kid," discovers magic all around him when he and his schoolmates participate in the Oak Glen Primary School talent show and work together on a wedding shower gift for their teacher.

Preemie Voices

release date: Jan 01, 2014
Preemie Voices
The birth of a very premature baby is a shock for parents. The immediate anxiety about whether their infant will survive quickly leads to concerns about their child''s future quality of life. In this inspiring and informative book, young people who were born weighing less than two pounds, three ounces provide candid and personal stories about their lives, challenges and accomplishments. Now in their thirties, these men and women were cared for at McMaster University Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario, soon after the introduction of newborn intensive care. Dr. Saroj Saigal, a renowned and award-winning neonatologist at McMaster, adds several chapters that outline the history of neonatology, describes recent medical and technological innovations, and explains how many extremely premature babies go on to enjoy fulfilling lives. Her chapters give the answer of a caring specialist to the inevitable question, "What next?" Written for a lay audience, Preemie Voices will move you to tears of admiration and amazement at the remarkable resilience of these tiny survivors. This unique collection of stories will not only provide encouragement and hope for parents who have given birth to a tiny preemie, but will inspire others who will be in awe at the achievements of these infants - both with and without disabilities - who were born too early. Watch the video documentary of a few participants from Preemie Voices at www.saigalpreemievoices.com...

I Believe in ZERO

release date: Oct 01, 2013
I Believe in ZERO
The President and CEO of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF shares powerful life lessons and stories of hope and resilience from her travels around the world on her mission to reduce the number of children who die from preventable causes.

Safe Kids, Smart Parents

release date: Jun 11, 2013
Safe Kids, Smart Parents
This practical guide to keeping children safe at any age empowers both parents and kids to be alert, follow a safety list and to critically assess situations to take the right steps to reduce risks.

Emergencies in Paediatrics and Neonatology

release date: Feb 28, 2013
Emergencies in Paediatrics and Neonatology
The second edition of this essential handbook provides a practical, accessible guide to all emergency situations encountered in paediatrics and neonatology, from the immediately life-threatening to the smaller but urgent problems that may arise.

Stuck in the Middle with You

release date: Jan 01, 2013
Stuck in the Middle with You
Filled with interviews that examine the relationships with fathers and mothers, a memoir about gender and parenting follows the author as she transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother.

A Good Trade

release date: Oct 15, 2012
A Good Trade
In Uganda, a young boy struggles to carry cans full of water back to his small village, and when he sees an aid truck filled with something that would make his journey easier, he devises a way to obtain some of the truck''s treasure.

Noisy Poems for a Busy Day

release date: Sep 01, 2012
Noisy Poems for a Busy Day
"Captures adventures big and small in a child''s day from sunup to sundown"--Dust jacket flap.

How Not to Kill Your Baby

release date: Mar 20, 2012
How Not to Kill Your Baby
This tongue-in-cheek parenting book is a hilarious parody of every fear-mongering, crazy-making pregnancy and parenting manual parents have ever cringed over.

Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids

release date: Mar 20, 2012
Smart Parenting, Smarter Kids
Shares advice for parents on how to help children bolster their brain power while improving focus and attention, covering practical topics ranging from exercise and nutrition to sleep and play.

I Just Don't Like the Sound of No! Activity Guide for Teachers

release date: Jan 01, 2012
I Just Don't Like the Sound of No! Activity Guide for Teachers
Classroom Ideas for Teaching the Skills of Accepting No for an Answer and Disagreeing Appropriately.

Listening to Learn

release date: Jan 01, 2012
Listening to Learn
Audiobooks not only present excellent opportunities to engage the attention of young people but also advance literacy. Learn how the format can support national learning standards and literacy skills in the K-12 curricula.

Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica

release date: Nov 23, 2011
Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica
Now in an easy-to-read, larger Deluxe format, the Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is filled with tables and charts, providing facts and treatment options for common psychological disorders from infancy to adolescence. This must-have clinical resource includes vital information on infant, child and adolescent disorder classification and treatment, epidemiology and biostatistics, human development, diagnostic evaluation, psychopharmacology, management of psychiatric medical emergencies and more. The Tarascon Pediatric Psychiatrica is the ultimate portable reference for the busy psychiatrist, psychologist, primary care physician or other health care professionals in the field of pediatric psychiatry.

Unequal Childhoods

release date: Aug 02, 2011
Unequal Childhoods
This book is a powerful portrayal of class inequalities in the United States. It contains insightful analysis of the processes through which inequality is reproduced, and it frankly engages with methodological and analytic dilemmas usually glossed over in academic texts.

Tandia

release date: May 20, 2011
Tandia
Half-African, half-Indian and beautiful, Tandia is just a teenager when she is brutally attacked and violated by the South African police. Desperately afraid and consumed by hatred for the white man, Tandia seeks refuge in a brothel deep in the veld. There she learns to use her brilliant mind and extraordinary looks as weapons for the battles that lie ahead: she trains as a terrorist. But then Tandia meets a man with a past as strange as her own: Peekay, an Oxford undergraduate who is also the challenger for the world welterweight boxing championship - and a white man. And in a land where mixed relationships are outlawed, their growing love can only have the most explosive consequences.

Advanced Play Therapy

by: Dee Ray
release date: Mar 01, 2011
Advanced Play Therapy
The purpose of this text is to present a resource to students and practitioners of play therapy that addresses topics beyond the training level. x; It x;provides advanced knowledge on the three main areas of play, child development, and play therapy and integrates them to help the play therapist gain a holistic understanding of how play therapy works.
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