Parenting
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Chosen: Living with adoption
Chosen brings together writing and poetry by over 50 adopted adults born between 1934 and 1984. Some are established writers, others are new and emerging whilst some have never been published before. They capture a broad range of perspectives: adoption within the extended family; late-discovery adopted adults; transracial and transnational adoption; those who have searched for birth family, and those who did not search but were found by a relative. The themes of identity and belonging, roots and searching and acceptance and healing permeate these accounts.Read more
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Attaching Through Love, Hugs and Play: Simple Strategies to Help Build Connections with Your Child
Capturing the warmth and fun of forming close relationships with children, this book offers simple advice to parents of children who find it difficult to attach and bond – whether following adoption, divorce or other difficult experiences. Attachment therapist Deborah D. Gray describes how to use the latest thinking on attachment in your daily parenting. She reveals sensory techniques which have proven to help children bond – straightforward activities like keeping close eye contact or stroking a child’s feet or cheeks – and explains why routines like mealtimes and play time are so important in helping children to attach. The book offers positive ideas for responding to immediate crises like difficult behaviour and meltdowns, but importantly also offers longer-term strategies to help children to develop the skills they need to cope as they grow up – the ability to plan, concentrate and be in control of their emotions. Offering fascinating insights into how children who struggle to attach can be helped, this book is full of easy-to-use ideas which will help you to enjoy the many pleasures of bonding and attaching with your child.Read more
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How to Adopt a Child: Your step-by-step guide to adopting and parenting
From understanding what adoption is, through to step by step guidance on the entire process and the challenges that come up along the way, this is the only book you will need to read on adoption.
Written by an author who was adopted herself, who has looked after over twenty children and who works with a fostering and adoption agency that deals specifically with breakdowns, this book will teach you how to confidently navigate the system and build a strong and lasting relationship with your child.
Whilst very much being the unvarnished truth, this is an empowering guide that will ensure you feel in control and know where to turn to for help no matter what:
With a positive attitude and the right tools, adopting a child can be very rewarding – don’t try to overthink it, don’t try to love, just do right by them and as you learn about each other the love, kindness and acceptance will grow.
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Becoming an Adoption-Friendly School: A Whole-School Resource for Supporting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma or Loss – With Complementary Downloadable Material
Adopted children who have experienced loss, abuse or neglect need additional support for their emotional development, and are more likely to have special educational needs. This useful resource provides a complete plan for creating adoption-friendly environments in primary, secondary and specialist schools.
The book is grounded on new research which gathered together testimonies from over 400 school staff members, adoptive parents and adoption specialists. With realistic consideration of pressures and limitations currently faced by schools, it gives advice on eight key areas for school development, including communicating with parents, training staff, using resources wisely and recognising children’s individual needs. Completing the toolkit is a broad selection of photocopiable and downloadable plans for establishing adoption-friendly frameworks, and for demonstrating good practice to staff, pupils, families and school inspectors.
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Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children, Second Edition: A Family Friendly Approach
Through words, pictures, photographs, certificates and other ‘little treasures’, a Life Story Book provides a detailed account of the child’s early history and a chronology of their life.
Fully updated, this clear and concise book shows a unique family-friendly way to compile a Life Story Book which promotes a sense of permanency for the child, and encourages attachments within new families. Joy Rees’ influential model works chronologically backwards rather than forwards, aiming to reinforce the child’s sense of belonging and security before addressing the child’s past and early trauma. The book contains simple explanations of complex concepts, practical examples, helpful suggestions and includes some simple checklists. This new edition has been expanded to include fostered children and those living in kinship care or with a special guardian.
Perfect for social workers, adoption agencies, adoptive parents, foster carers and kinship carers, Life Story Books for Adopted and Fostered Children is a refreshing, innovative and common-sense guide.
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Parenting with Theraplay®: Understanding Attachment and How to Nurture a Closer Relationship with Your Child (Theraplay® Books & Resources)
Theraplay® is an attachment-focused model of parenting that helps parents to understand and relate to their child. Based on a sequence of play activities that are rooted in neuroscience, Theraplay offers a fun and easy way for parents and children to connect. Theraplay is particularly effective with looked after and adopted children.
By providing an overview of Theraplay and the psychological principles that it is based on, parents and carers will gain an understanding of the basic theory of the model along with practical ideas for applying Theraplay to everyday family life. Through everyday case studies and easy language, parents will gain confidence and learn new skills for emotional bonding, empathy, and acceptance in the relationship with their child.
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Adoption After a Biological Child: A biological and adoptive mother’s story of attachment and unconditional love | adopting from foster care after … Kinship Care and Special…
From the author of award-winning children’s story books, Delly Duck, Room in the Nest, Adopting a Little Brother or Sister and other adoption and fostering children’s stories, comes an emotional and informative account of the unique challenges and joys of adopting after having a biological child.When Holly and Jon Marlow decided to adopt a child from foster care, they wondered how much having a birth child already would affect the adoption process, and how the process would affect their daughter. With warmth and vulnerability, Holly shares her personal experiences, delving into the approval and matching process, introductions, attachment issues, therapeutic life story work and navigating contact with her son’s birth family.
This book appeals to fans of Sally Donovan’s “No Matter What,” Lisa Faulkner’s “Meant to Be” and Sarah Naish’s series on therapeutic parenting. It makes an ideal gift for anyone adopting who already has a child in their family.
Please click on the author’s name to see more titles by Holly Marlow, about adoption, foster care, kinship care and special guardianship.Read more
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CBT for Young People: The Complete CBT Workbook for Kids, Children, Teens, and Adolescents: Improve Mental Health, Overcome Anxiety, Depression, Low … Anger, and Develop…
Searching for anxiety books for kids, teens, and adolescents that effectively address mental health challenges? Discover the comprehensive CBT workbook for adults to support young people in overcoming anxiety, depression, anger, low self-esteem, and more…Struggling to find the right tools to help young people manage anxiety, depression, anger, and low self-esteem? Want to make a positive impact but are overwhelmed by information and time constraints? Look no further. CBT for Young People is your go-to anxiety book for teens, kids, and adolescents. This guide will help you master the evidence-based therapy that revolutionized mental health treatment.
With 30 years of experience in teaching and therapy, author Alison Triste equips you with the knowledge and techniques needed to help children, teens, and adolescents navigate their emotions, build resilience, and improve emotional regulation for a happier future.
This extensive workbook for teens and kids will provide you with the tools and expertise you need to support the emotional well-being of young people.
You will also gain access to 100 downloadable worksheets, questionnaires, and activities designed specifically for children and teens. By reading this book, you will gain the confidence to help young people with low self-esteem and cope with uncomfortable emotions.
Inside CBT for Young People, you’ll find:
- A clear, concise introduction to CBT, cognitive behavior therapy for kids and its effectiveness in treating young people’s mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, OCD, low self-esteem, and anger.
- A step-by-step guide to applying the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM) for assessing and addressing children’s and teenagers’ emotional challenges, such as low self-esteem in childhood and adolescence.
- In-depth explanations of common mental health disorders like depression, anxiety, and OCD in kids, their symptoms, and evidence-based treatments.
- Hands-on strategies and techniques to help young people build emotional resilience, cope with stressors, and develop healthy emotional regulation skills.
- An emotional regulation workbook with over 100 downloadable worksheets designed to engage, educate, and empower young minds on their journey to emotional well-being.
- And much, much more!
With an incredible 425 pages, printed in vibrant color, CBT for Young People provides you with a treasure trove of invaluable information and guidance.
This extensive resource goes above and beyond, granting you access to an exclusive online portal. Here, you’ll be able to freely download and print the Cognitive Behavioural Map (CBM), assessment worksheets, and disorder-specific worksheets at your convenience.
Imagine the difference you’ll make in the lives of young people as you utilize these practical resources, all meticulously designed to help them on their path to emotional well-being. Don’t settle for less; join those dedicated to making a real, lasting impact, and embrace the transformative power of CBT for Young People.
Don’t miss this opportunity to transform the lives of kids and teenagers with the power of CBT. This mental health self-help resource also includes depression workbooks, PTSD workbooks, and anger workbooks for teens.
Get your copy of “CBT for Young People” today and start making a real difference in the emotional wellbeing of the young people you care about!
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Happy Families: How to Protect and Support Your Child’s Mental Health
‘The must-have family handbook – accessible, equipping and game-changing’ – Anna Mathur, author of Mind Over Mother
Do you want to know how you can you support your child with anxiety?
Have you noticed changes in your child’s behaviour, and you’re not sure why?
Don’t know what you can do to help?Happy Families is your definitive guide to understanding your child’s mental health, so they can survive and thrive. Whether you’re afraid that anxiety is controlling your child’s life, struggling with getting your child out of a low mood cycle, or you just want support on how to communicate with them, this book is here to help.
Dr Beth Mosley MBE is one of the UK’s most experienced and respected consultant clinical psychologists, and she works with children, young people and their families every day. In this groundbreaking guide aimed at parents of children aged 4-21, she offers a comprehensive toolkit that will help you make sense of what your child is going through and give you the hope and reassurance you need to make a change.
Filled with invaluable tools, quick-fire exercises, case studies and additional worksheets, Happy Families has everything you need to protect and support your child’s mental health.
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Educating Children and Young People with Acquired Brain Injury
Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is an authoritative resource book on the effects of brain injury on young people and how educators can understand and support their needs. This new edition has been updated to reflect changes to legislation and practice relating to special educational needs and will enable you to maximise the learning opportunities for young people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Considering key areas in special educational needs such as communication, interaction, cognition, sensory and physical needs, the book provides information on the multifaceted needs of children and young people with ABI and how these needs can be met.
This book will help you to:
- Understand the difficulties that young people with ABI experience
- Support these students by using appropriate strategies to help their learning
- Understand and address the social and emotional difficulties experienced by these students
- Work in partnership with families and other professionals
- Understand information from other professionals by reference to a glossary of terms
- Access further useful information from relevant resources and organisations
Written for SENCOs, teachers, teaching assistants, educational psychologists and other education professionals across all settings, Educating Children with Acquired Brain Injury is full of useful information and advice for parents and other family members, clinical and behavioural psychologists, therapists and support workers involved with children and young people with ABI.
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Understanding Attachment Injuries in Children and How to Help: A Guide for Parents and Caregivers: Attachment-Based Parenting Addressing Developmental … Guardians, Kinship and…
Helping Parents Help their Children!
~ New, Innovative and Practical Strategies! ~A Must-Read for anyone parenting or caring for a child with a difficult or traumatic early history!
Children who have had difficulties or disruptions in their first, early relationship with their parent or primary caregiver often struggle with attachment injuries. These children frequently come to reject the very things they most need from their parents or caregivers: love and connection. This presents special challenges for parents.
If you are the parent or caregiver of a child with attachment injuries, the ideas in this book will bolster your role as an agent of healing and change for your child. You will find new and innovative concepts and attachment-based strategies to help you help your child. In this book, you will learn:
- The underlying dynamics and motivations of attachment-injured children.
- How to create safety and build connection with your child.
- How to help your child re-story their life in a healthy, adaptive way.
- What to look for and what to avoid in therapy for your child.
- Practical strategies to reduce and address challenging behavior.
- How to understand mental health diagnoses.
- Some commonly-used terms related to attachment and child trauma.
Within the pages of this book, you will find many practical and down-to-earth suggestions with examples and insights to guide you along the way. This book focuses on children with attachment injuries, but all parents are likely to find value within!
Discover attachment-based parenting to address mild to sever attachment injuries including developmental trauma and reactive attachment disorder (rad). Adoptive, biological, and foster parents, guardians, kinship, and other caregivers will find new ways of understanding their child, along with useful and revolutionary parenting strategies to heal relational wounds and help their child become emotionally and relationally connected.
They say kids don’t come with a manual, but this is the next best thing!
~ WB – parent, life coach, former supervisor and counselor in children’s residential treatmentRead more
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Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook: Integrating CBT and DBT for Lasting Emotional Regulation and Personal Growth (Successful Parenting)
There are over 55,000 posts about #MentalHealth on TikTok, viewed by more than 188 million users. This shows that mental health awareness is becoming a hot topic for many young people.
With all of this content flooding the internet, it is becoming easier for teens to find peers who are faced with similar psychological issues. But more often than not, they are still left confused about how to respond to these challenges in positive ways.
What seems to be lacking isn’t education about stress or anxiety, but rather effective cognitive, emotional, and behavioral skills to confront obstacles head on. Above and beyond the guidance offered by friends, parents, and schoolteachers, teens can also benefit from learning how to improve their reactions to stressful situations.
Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook is an easy-to-use self-directed therapy workbook that can help teenagers aged 13–19 practice core CBT and DBT skills from the comfort of their own bedrooms.
Yes, that’s right! In this digital age, where there is an app for virtually everything, and information is available at the touch of a button, therapy has become more affordable and accessible online!
Several studies have proven the success of both CBT and DBT in managing stress, regulating strong emotions, and modifying behaviors—and the best part is that the same skills taught in a counseling room can be practiced at home too!
Over the course of 5 chapters, 28 journal prompts, and 50 exercises, teens can look forward to learning:- The power of the pause when sensing triggers and managing impulsive urges.
- How to identify and detach from unwanted thoughts and emotions.
- Strategies on how to define, brainstorm, and implement solutions for everyday life problems.
- How to develop self-respect through boundary setting and positive conflict resolution.
The purpose of this workbook is to mentally prepare teens for unexpected and ongoing stressful situations they may face at home or at school. Through a powerful combination of CBT and DBT skills, they will be able to walk away with knowledge on how to reflect, reframe, and readjust their thoughts and emotions to achieve desired goals.
Show support for your child’s #MentalHealth by grabbing your copy of Beyond Coping Skills: The Ultimate Teens’ Workbook, today!Read more
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Success Life Skills for Teens: 4 Books in 1 – Learn Essential Life Skills, Master Social Skills, Become Financially Savvy, Find Your Future Dream … Huge Success (Life Skill…
Every Teen’s Ultimate Resource to Master the Most Essential Life Skills and Prepare for a Successful Future…
???? The Perfect Gift for Teen Boys and Girls From Ages 12-19 Years Old ????
Success Life Skills for Teens is a collection of 4 books that are designed to help your teen with every aspect of their pursuit of a successful and easy life. They can learn everything they need to know from practical life skills such as cooking and cleaning to responsible financial planning and impeccable communication skills that will really give them a bulletproof foundation for entering adulthood. There’s also a career planning deep dive for those who have no idea what they REALLY WANT from life.
The combination of the following four books will help your teen lay the foundation they need to build now if they really want to make the most out of their life:
Book 1. The Big Book of Adulting Life Skills for Teens
- The 4 pillars of building healthy and rewarding relationships
- Everything you need to know before you move away from your parents
- How to plan your weekly meals the RIGHT way so that you can eat healthy and save money!
- A must-know investing secret they will never teach you in school (you want to understand this if you want to become rich one day)
- How to keep your home clean and organized without it feeling like a chore
- How to preserve your most precious asset (learn what it is from the book!) to achieve more and bigger goals fast
- A secret mindset that the most successful athletes, leaders and entrepreneurs implemented at an early age to achieve success
Book 2. Money Skills for Teens
- The 3 different ways you can start making money already as a teen
- Mindset first: How to develop a healthy money mindset and set up your financial goals… the right way
- How to open and manage your first very own bank account
- Vital tips for creating your first budget that really works
- The “magic” behind growing your wealth (You don’t want to miss this!)
Book 3. Social Skills for Teens
- The number 1 reason why you haven’t overcome shyness and how to reverse it!
- A secret mindset that will help you beat any obstacle life throws your way (This is a must-have!)
- Things no one taught you about verbal and non-verbal communication
- How to finally overcome social anxiety for good
- How to easily build meaningful new relationships that will last a lifetime
- Forget SMART goals. Learn a simpler way of setting personal goals that you will ACTUALLY achieve
Book 4. Career Planning for Teens
- An incredibly effective self-assessment that will finally reveal your true self (And your hidden talents!)
- A Simple step-by-step process to finding the profession that suits you
- A 3-step process to developing your skillset to become the best candidate on the job market
- How and where to get help when you need it the most
- Planning your education the RIGHT way so that you neither waste time nor money
- How to gain highly-valued practical experience even if you cannot get a job
- Finally, land your dream job and turn that into a highly successful career
And much, much more!
Each book is planned to be engaging and interesting for your teen’s mind because learning important skills should not be boring (like in school), but FUN! They are packed with simple and actionable tips and strategies along with easy-to-understand examples that will make implementing the new skills as effortless as possible.
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Life Skills for Young Adults: How to Manage Money, Find a Job, Stay Fit, Eat Healthy and Live Independently. Everything a Teen Should Know Before Leaving Home (Essential Life…
ESSENTIAL LIFE SKILLS EVERY TEEN SHOULD KNOW BEFORE LEAVING HOME!
-> The perfect gift for teens and young adults
Congratulations, you’re a young adult. But… Are you ready to leave home? Do you have the skills to live independently?
Chances are, you don’t know everything you need to know yet. That’s ok! We weren’t born knowing how to cook or manage our money, and many of these skills are never taught in school.
In today’s world, you need more than just good grades to get by. You need life skills.
Life skills are the skills that we need to function in everyday life. They include things like cooking, cleaning, budgeting, and time management. Many of these skills are never taught in school, but they’re essential for thriving in the real world.
Without life skills, young adults can struggle when they leave home and have to fend for themselves.
This book will teach you 100 everyday life skills to make adulthood easier. By the time you’re finished reading, you’ll be ready to take on anything!
So whether you’re getting ready to finish school and head off to college, or you’re already out in the real world, this book is for you. It’s never too late to learn!
In Life Skills for Young Adults, you’ll learn how to:
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manage your money wisely
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save for your future
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cook simple and delicious meals
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find and apply for your first job
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keep your living space clean and organized
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deal with stress and anxiety
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stay fit and healthy, and so much more.
Life Skills for Young Adults is your essential guide to learning the skills you need to survive and thrive in the real world. If you like simple, practical, and real-world advice, you’ll love this book.
So what are you waiting for? It’s time to start learning the skills you need to be a successful adult.
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The Danish Way of Raising Teens: What the happiest people in the world know about raising confident, healthy teenagers with character
Learn the parenting secrets that make Danish teens the happiest in the worldIf you read the bestselling The Danish Way of Parenting, you will have already discovered the secret to the happiest children in the world. Here, co-author and psychotherapist Iben Dissing Sandahl will bring to life the Danish upbringing values that form the basis of raising the happiest, healthiest and most well-adjusted teenagers in the world.
From embracing uniqueness and authenticity, to stressing freedom with responsibility and avoiding ultimatums, The Danish Way of Raising Teens uncovers the ten core principles Danes use to raise their teens and steer them through this challenging, yet exciting, phase.
Reassuring and gentle, this book will help you support your child in this formative time, which is often shrouded in worry, to show a way forward that is packed with hope, positivity and enjoyment.
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Help Your Child Deal With Stress – and Thrive: The transformative power of Self-Reg
We are seeing a generation of children and teens with excessively high levels of stress, and, as a result, an explosion of health problems in young people today. But few parents recognise the ‘hidden stressors’ that their children are struggling with.
This book, previously published as Self-Reg, will give you the tools to help you recognise stress and understand your child’s behaviour, and teach your stressed, emotional child to identify their ‘big’ emotions and get back on an even keel by themselves.
Stress can affect your child in many ways – whether it’s exam pressure, pressure exerted by friends online or in the playground, or related to health, with lack of sleep and anxiety at home contributing. Help Your Child Deal With Stress – and Thrive is a ground-breaking parenting book, in which Dr Stuart Shanker argues that by teaching children the art of self-regulation, it can transform their behaviour and help them to identify, talk about and manage their emotions. This leads to a harmonious home, and children who feel nurtured and supported.
Mastering the art of self-regulation can help children learn to deal with experiences, overcome frustration, pay better attention, engage better with others and enhance their learning capabilities. In turn, children will develop the confidence, along with the skills and emotional strength needed to navigate the pressures and stresses of the modern world.
Underpinned by science, Dr Shanker’s techniques have had a remarkable effect on children and parents alike, and hundreds of thousands of children who have gone through the programme in Canada have shown significant improvement in literacy, numeracy and behaviour.
‘In this important and timely book, Stuart Shanker encourages us to see our children in a whole new light and gives us the tools we need to help nurture our young in order that they can better manage stress, build resiliency and improve their emotional health. Today’s pupils are under serious pressure to perform; by helping children recognize, identify and talk about their emotions, we can help them find balance and ultimately realise their true potential.’ – Sir Anthony Seldon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, co-founder of Action for Happiness and best-selling author
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Parenting For Jannah: Mommy’s Dua Book
The Mommy’s Dua Book was created with much love using the most beautiful 99 names of Allah and provides everything you need to pray for your children and develop a regular prayer habit for your kids daily.Read more
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Heaven Under Your Feet (Heaven Under Your Feet: Pregnancy for Muslim Women)
Heaven Under Your Feet is the perfect book to accompany you along this precious phase in your life. From the moment you find out you are pregnant right through labour, Umm Hasan answers your questions, addresses your concerns and offers practical advice from an Islamic perspective of how to make the most of your pregnancy. Written in consultation with Muslim medical professionals with input from Islamic scholars, this is a book that no Muslim family expecting a baby should be without. Umm Hasan graduated from Oxford University in Experimental Psychology. She has studied at Darul-Uloom, Oxford and is currently enrolled with Al-Qalam Institute, Leicester. She is a full-time mother and home educator of six children. Originally published 14 years ago, this is the updated and revised Second Edition.Read more
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Chinese Medicine for Childhood Anxiety and Depression: A Practical Guide for Practitioners and Parents
Tackling mental-emotional health problems in young people from a Chinese medicine perspective, this book shows how a child’s mental-emotional health is intrinsically connected with core elements of their everyday life. It suggests an approach to preventing and healing anxiety and depression that involves neither medication nor costs anything.
Part One of the book explains Chinese medicine concepts related to mental-emotional health in a way that is accessible for those with no prior knowledge. It includes chapters on how to recognise a child’s Five Element imbalance and how children of each element type need a different kind of nurture and lifestyle in order to remain mentally-emotionally healthy. Each chapter in Part Two examines a particular pillar of mental-emotional health such as connection, family life, emotions, and diet through a Chinese medicine lens. Each chapter is full of practical tips. Throughout, there is an emphasis on guiding parents and practitioners to discern what is right for a particular child, and that each child will need something different.
Addressing childhood anxiety and depression using a unique, accessible, and practical perspective, Chinese Medicine for Childhood Anxiety and Depression is an invaluable book for practitioners and parents alike.
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Developing Child-Centred Practice for Safeguarding and Child Protection: Strategies for Every Early Years Setting (Little Minds Matter)
Placing children at the centre of safeguarding principles and practices is vital for ensuring the best child protection. This essential resource provides early years practitioners with all that they need to be confident and competent as they fulfil their roles and obligations to safeguard and protect children.
Exploring the main factors that impact on the lives of young children in the current safeguarding climate, this book is a starting point for understanding the risks and categories of abuse and neglect. Grounded in best practice, it gives practitioners encouragement and advice to help shape and drive practice forward with child-centred motives, practices and perspectives.
The book offers:
- Insights into the current safeguarding climate backed by practical examples
- An introduction to managing the different safeguarding challenges faced by early years professionals
- Methods for contextualising these for children in the early years
- Guidance on supporting vulnerable children, their families and other agencies working alongside them
- Reflections, case studies and a wide range of example scenarios
- Voices and insights from across the sector woven throughout for a holistic understanding of safeguarding
With accessible chapters drawing on best practice from across the sector at every level, this is a valuable resource for all those working in the early years, whether just starting out or highly experienced in the field.
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Inclusive Education for Autistic Children: Helping Children and Young People to Learn and Flourish in the Classroom
This book presents original, empirical research that reframes how educators should consider autism and educational inclusion. Rebecca Wood carefully unpicks common misapprehensions about autism and how autistic children learn, and reconsiders what inclusion can and should mean for autistic learners in school settings.
Drawing on research and interwoven with comments from autistic child and adult contributors throughout, the book argues that inclusion will only work if the ways in which autistic children think, learn, communicate and exhibit their understanding are valued and supported. Such an approach will benefit both the learner and the whole classroom. Considering topics such as the sensory environment, support, learning and cognition, school curriculums, communication and socialisation, this much needed book offers ideas and insight that reflect the practical side of day-to-day teaching and learning, and shows how thinking differently about autism and inclusion will equip teachers to effectively improve teaching conditions for the whole school.
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The Blissful Baby Expert
There are few life experiences more joyful than becoming a parent, but caring for a newborn can be daunting, particularly when you’re not sure whose advice to follow or what your baby really needs.
In The Blissful Baby Expert, Lisa Clegg draws on her own experience of motherhood and her professional life as a nanny and maternity nurse to share her essential, trusted advice. Gentle, reassuring and practical, her book guides you every step of the way from birth to two years. It includes:
– Equipment – what is essential and what is helpful
– Coming home – how to cope and bond in the early days
– Sleep – flexible plans to help your baby settle and sleep
– Feeding – guilt-free breast- and bottlefeeding
– Weaning – when to start and how to do it
– Q&As – common worries and what to do
– Development – what to expect and advice on toysEvery baby is different and this is why Lisa’s book isn’t a restrictive one-size-fits-all plan. Instead, she gives you the knowledge you need to trust your own instincts, build your confidence and learn to recognise what is best for your baby. With this knowledge, you’ll enjoy calm, happy parenting and a blissful, settled baby.
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Cambridge National in Child Development Revision Guide and Workbook with Digital Access (2 Years): Level 1/Level 2 (Cambridge Nationals)
Activity-based series, mapped to specification, developed with teachers, exam skills, first teach September 2022. Working towards endorsement by OCR. This combined revision guide and workbook provides a wealth of exam-style questions and detailed guidance to give students the confidence they need to tackle a full range of exam questions. It provides clear and concise summaries of key learning points, with a strong visual presentation, to help focus students’ attention. Write-in activities support consolidation of learning and encourage active revision. Confidence-building activities help students to unlock the language of assessment and achieve their potential. Includes digital support to help students check their knowledge and understanding, and to learn what to expect from different types of exam questions.Read more
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Your Baby Week By Week: The ultimate guide to caring for your new baby – FULLY UPDATED JUNE 2018
UPDATED EDITION 2018
The first six months with a new baby is a special and exciting time full of milestones and new experiences. This updated edition of Your Baby Week by Week explains the changes that your baby will go through in their first six months. Each chapter covers a week of their development so you’ll know when your baby will start to recognize you, when they’ll smile and laugh for the first time and even when they’ll be old enough to prefer some people to others!
Paediatrician Dr Caroline Fertleman and health writer Simone Cave’s practical guide provides reassuring advice so you can be confident about your baby’s needs. Including:
– How to tell if your baby is getting enough milk
– Spotting when you need to take your baby to the doctor
– Identifying why your baby is crying
– How long your baby is likely to sleep and cry for
– Tips on breastfeeding and when to wean your babyFull of all the information and tips for every parent Your Baby Week by Week is the only guide you’ll need to starting life with your new arrival.
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CACHE Level 3 Early Years Educator for the Work-Based Learner: The only textbook for Early Years endorsed by CACHE
Master the knowledge and skills you need to obtain the new work-based CACHE Level 3 Diploma for the Early Years Workforce (Early Years Educator) qualification.
Written by bestselling author and early years expert Penny Tassoni, this is the only textbook for work-based learners endorsed by CACHE. Tassoni makes learning the key concepts on the job both easy and enjoyable. This book will support you through your assessment and the start of your career.
– Understand all the requirements of the new qualification fully with clearly stated learning outcomes and key terms
– See how concepts are applied to a range of settings with numerous case studies
– Learn to reflect on your own skills and experiences with numerous ‘Reflection’ boxes
– Practise what you’ve learned with ‘In practice’ and ‘In your setting’ activity boxes
– Prepare for examinations and assessment with confidence via activities linked to assessment criteriaRead more
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Why Can’t My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families
Parenting a child who doesn’t know how to be parented is the most difficult job in the world’ This book provides friendly expert advice on how to respond to difficult behaviours and emotions for parents of children with developmental trauma. Each chapter focusses on the common difficulties faced by carers or parents and features quick, applicable ideas with exercises and illustrations. How do you react to a child’s difficult behaviour? How do you deal with your own negative emotions? How do you know when to be empathic? The book looks beyond the traditional punishment/reward strategies and aims to provide an explanation for such questions whilst helping the child in the process. This book will prove to be an invaluable resource for parents, foster carers, social workers and professionals working with children who are adopted or fostered.Read more
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Pocket Commando Dad: Advice for New Recruits to Fatherhood: From Birth to 12 Months
Let training commence
Attention! In your hand is an indispensable pocket-sized training manual for new dads. Written by ex-Commando and father of three Neil Sinclair, this no-nonsense guide will teach you everything you need to know to prepare for your biggest mission yet: parenthood. With step-by-step advice and Commando Dad Top Tips, this book will ensure you’re ready to parent with military precision.
Learn how to:
– Prepare base camp for your baby trooper’s arrival
– Survive the first 24 hours
– Establish feeding and sleeping routines
– Pack a survival kit for everything from light missions to long-term deployments
– Transport the troops successfully on manoeuvres
– Treat ailments and injuries with basic first-aid training
– Keep base camp tidy and square away tasks along the way
– Maintain morale in the ranks
And much, much more.Designed to be used in the field from birth to 12 months, this resource provides the foundation to all the practical skills needed to become the ultimate protector to your newest trooper. As used by Prince William himself, this is the go-to training manual for fatherhood recruits!
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Career Planning for Teens: How to Understand Your Identity, Cultivate Your Skills, Find Your Dream Job, and Turn That Into a Successful Career (Life Skill Handbooks for Teens)
If your teen wants to have a highly successful career when they grow up but have no idea where to get started this guide is for them! Keep reading if you want to know how your teen could benefit from this book as well!
???? The Perfect Gift for Teen Boys and Girls From Ages 12-19 Years Old ????
Is your teenager scared of making a bad career choice that they will deeply regret as an adult?
Is the constant worry about their future already giving them a headache?
Are you looking for a guide that would step-by-step walk your teen through finding the right career path so that they could sleep nights well knowing that they’ve made the right decision?
If so, then this book is for you.
Choosing the right career path is one of the biggest decisions teens will have to make early on in life. And you don’t want them to get that wrong, do you?
Even though they might currently feel lost, you see, making the right career choice doesn’t have to be difficult.
Even if you’ve already spent months and months trying to find the right one…
The truth is, it’s much simpler than you think.
With over 10 years of experience in the education and parenting fields, Emily Carter provides your teen with a step-by-step blueprint for finding their dream job and turning that into a highly successful and profitable career without having to spend endless nights just scratching their head and stressing over what they’re going to do with their life.
Here’s just a fraction of what you will discover in Career Planning for Teens:
- An incredibly effective self-assessment that will finally reveal your teen’s true self (And their hidden talents!) – Page 10
- A Simple step-by-step process to finding the profession that suits your teen the best – Page 24
- A 3-step process to developing your skillset to become the best candidate on the job market – Page 36
- How and where to get help when your teen needs it the most – Page 55
- Planning your teen’s education the RIGHT way so that you neither waste time nor money – Page 65
- How to gain highly-valued practical experience already as a teen even if they cannot get a job – Page 79
- Finally, land the dream job and turn that into a highly successful career – Page 123
- And much, much more…
And as a COMPLEMENTARY BONUS, you will receive THREE EBOOKS:
- ”Unleashing Your Potential”: A Teenager’s Guide to Developing a Growth Mindset and Opening Your Path to Success
- ”The Essential Summer Job Handbook”: The Teen’s Guide to a Fun and Profitable Summer
- ”Raising Teens With Confidence”: 10 Exclusive Blog Posts on Parenting Teens
Just imagine how your teenager will feel once they get the burden of not knowing what to do with their life off their shoulders, and how much less stressed and overwhelmed they’ll become.
So even if your teen has already made the wrong decision regarding their career, you can still fix it, get on the right track and start directing them toward their dream life with the help of Career Planning for Teens.
If you want your teen to make the RIGHT career choice and turn that into a success, scroll up and click the “Add to Cart” button to order your copy now!
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A Growth Mindset For Teens: Practical Lessons & Activities To Build Confidence, Problem Solve, Grow Skills, And Become Resilient in 31 Days (You Are Your Mindset)
Turn your setbacks to breakthroughs and fears to power with this guidebook on developing a growth mindset — become a responsible and resilient adult!
You are no longer a child, but not yet an adult. As a teen, you are in a period in your life where more is expected of you as adulthood draws near.
You might find yourself overwhelmed by the pressure from your parents, teachers, and others around you.
What if I fail? What if I don’t know how to be an adult? What if my parents are going to be disappointed in me? What if I don’t land a lucrative career?
Suffocating what-ifs flood your mind, affecting your peace of mind which manifests in difficulties at school and challenges with relationships.
The truth is, you’re not alone in this struggle. Millions of young people share the same dilemma, and even non-teens recognize the woes of emerging adulthood.
A 2021 survey revealed that more than 70 percent of Americans agree that adolescents today face a harder time than previous generations.
Fortunately, there is a solution to all your worries. By equipping yourself with a growth mindset, you’ll be able to discover your potential and bring out the best in you.
Even better, there are strategies to develop a mentality that cultivates and promotes growth, converting your fear of the future into faith in yourself in the process. And adopting these strategies is relatively easy, as long as you have a valuable guide.
This book is a safe space where you can find everything you need to develop persistence, resilience, and inner strength to help you face the exciting challenges ahead. Inside, you’ll discover:
- An in-depth understanding of the growth mindset, how it is developed, how it differs from a fixed mindset, and common misconceptions about it
- How to rewire the brain and cultivate growth — and effective strategies to boost neuroplasticity for brain health and resilience
- The importance of reframing your thoughts and ways to live with your inner critic and turn negative thinking into positivity
- Why you must find your strengths to help you break free from limiting beliefs — leave your comfort zone and traverse into the growth zone
- The role of self-compassion, empathy, and gratitude in your quest to bounce back from challenges
- Stress management skills: emotion regulation, problem-solving, and time management to reduce stress and help you become more productive anywhere
- 31-day growth mindset challenges to help you achieve your goals ASAP – fun to do with family, friends, or by yourself
And much more.
So much of what you can achieve stems not from your innate talent, intelligence, or skills, but from your mentality.
Your mindset will determine whether you choose to give up or try again, whether you rest on your laurels or push yourself further, or whether you continue forward or turn back.
So much of how your life will turn out depends on your mindset. Make sure you’re cultivating the right one.
If you’re ready to work on improving yourself, your mindset is a great place to start!
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Flake
**WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION**
**A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR**
A stunning first graphic novel by a Cape/Comica/Observer graphic short story competition winner – a tale of a skirmish in the ice-cream wars that is worthy of Alan Bennett
In the small seaside town of Dobbiston, Howard sells ice creams from his van, just like his father before him. But when he notices a downturn in trade, he soon realises its cause: Tony Augustus, Howard’s half-brother, whose ice-cream empire is expanding all over the North-West…
Flake, Matthew Dooley’s debut graphic novel, tells of how this epic battle turns out, and how Howard – helped by the Dobbiston Mountain Rescue team – overcomes every obstacle and triumphs in the end.
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Night, Night: A touch-and-feel board book for your baby to explore
The perfect first book to share with your baby!
Sparkly, bold, high-contrast novelty board book that stimulates a baby’s developing coordination and vision. The perfect introduction to a good bedtime routine.
Join Little Bunny after a busy day to get ready for bed. Eye-catching illustrations in black and white with shiny foil will capture your baby’s focus and attention and aid their visual development. Night, Night introduces a gentle bedtime routine of bath, book, bed with simple text, noises to copy and striking images.
Babies are able to react and respond to simple patterns and contrasting colours just a few weeks after being born. As their eyes develop, high-contrast shapes, patterns and reflective surfaces give newborns something simple to focus on, respond to and interact with. Babies will react with delight as they reach for the shiny textures and the simple text prompts parent interaction.
Also available: Moo Peek-a-Boo, Splish Splash, On the Move, Funny Faces, Animal Train
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The Simple Guide to Child Trauma: What It Is and How to Help (Simple Guides)
· What is trauma?
· How does it affect children?
· How can adults help?Providing straightforward answers to these complex questions, The Simple Guide to Child Trauma is the perfect starting point for any adult caring for or working with a child who has experienced trauma. It will help them to understand more about a child’s emotional and behavioural responses following trauma and provides welcome strategies to aid recovery. Reassuring advice will also rejuvenate adults’ abilities to face the challenges of supporting children.
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Breathe Out: A Creative Guide to Happiness for Teen Minds (Wellbeing Guides)
Life can often feel overwhelming and with pressure from school, relationships and social media it can be hard to remember to take a bit of time for ourselves – to take care of what’s going on for us on the inside.
Breathe Out has been written specifically for young minds and the unique challenges that teenagers face today, it is filled with exercises and techniques for anxiety relief and tips specially designed to help you to take a step back and take a moment for yourself.
With a variety of exercises that encourage you to be present, to be a better listener, articulate your feelings and get a handle on your screen time among many others, this is a hands-on journal that will allow you to track your moods and feel more in control when things can be a bit overwhelming. There are also mindfulness and breathing techniques to allow you to keep on top of your emotions wherever you are.
By unlocking your creativity – whether that’s using colour, list making, noting your thoughts and experiences – you’ll explore what makes you you, build new inner strengths and discover how to prioritize your wellbeing every day. The result? A happier, more fulfilled you.
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Good Inside: The new Sunday Times bestselling gentle parenting guide for fans of Philippa Perry
‘The voice of reason for a generation of… mums and dads’ – The Guardian
Wildly popular parenting expert Dr Becky Kennedy shares her groundbreaking approach to raising kids in a way that feels good.
Over the past several years, Dr Becky Kennedy―known to her followers as ‘Dr Becky’―has been sparking a parenting revolution. Millions of parents, tired of following advice that either doesn’t work or simply doesn’t feel good, have embraced Dr Becky’s empowering and effective approach, a model that prioritises connecting with our kids over correcting them.
From reward charts to time-outs, many popular parenting approaches are based on shaping behaviour, not raising humans. These techniques don’t build the skills kids need for life or account for their complex emotional needs. Add to that parents’ complicated relationships with their own upbringings and it’s easy to see why so many of them feel lost, burned out, and worried they’re failing their kids.
In Good Inside, Dr Becky shares her parenting philosophy, complete with actionable strategies, that will help parents move from uncertainty and self-blame to confidence and sturdy leadership. Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios―including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more―Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.
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The Explosive Child [Sixth Edition]: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children
Now in a revised and updated 6th edition, the groundbreaking, research-based approach to understanding and parenting children who frequently exhibit severe fits of temper and other challenging behaviors, from a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the field.
What’s an explosive child? A child who responds to routine problems with extreme frustration—crying, screaming, swearing, kicking, hitting, biting, spitting, destroying property, and worse. A child whose frequent, severe outbursts leave his or her parents feeling frustrated, scared, worried, and desperate for help. Most of these parents have tried everything-reasoning, explaining, punishing, sticker charts, therapy, medication—but to no avail. They can’t figure out why their child acts the way he or she does; they wonder why the strategies that work for other kids don’t work for theirs; and they don’t know what to do instead.
Dr. Ross Greene, a distinguished clinician and pioneer in the treatment of kids with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, has worked with thousands of explosive children, and he has good news: these kids aren’t attention-seeking, manipulative, or unmotivated, and their parents aren’t passive, permissive pushovers. Rather, explosive kids are lacking some crucial skills in the domains of flexibility/adaptability, frustration tolerance, and problem solving, and they require a different approach to parenting.
Throughout this compassionate, insightful, and practical book, Dr. Greene provides a new conceptual framework for understanding their difficulties, based on research in the neurosciences. He explains why traditional parenting and treatment often don’t work with these children, and he describes what to do instead. Instead of relying on rewarding and punishing, Dr. Greene’s Collaborative Problem Solving model promotes working with explosive children to solve the problems that precipitate explosive episodes, and teaching these kids the skills they lack.
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Adopting a child – 10th edition: The Definitive Guide to Adoption in the UK
Now replaced by the eleventh edition published in 2021: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adopting-Child-Jenifer-Lord/dp/191338408X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=9781913384081&qid=1619685747&s=books&sr=1-1Read more
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Parenting a Child Affected by Parental Substance Misuse (Parenting Matters)
Prospective adopters and carers are often faced with the prospect of having to decide whether they can care for a child with a health need or condition they know little about and have no direct experience of. It can be difficult to know where to turn for reliable information. What lies behind the diagnoses and “labels” that many looked after children bring with them? And what will it be like to live with them? How will they benefit from family life?Parenting a Child affceted by Parental Substance Misuse explores general issues around substance misuse and children entering care as well as the impact on children of exposure to substances during pregnancy, including both specific effects (such as Foetal Alcohol Syndrome) and wider issues (such as genetic susceptibilities).
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Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children: Creative Ideas for Therapy, Life Story Work, Direct Work and Parenting
Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counseling, life story work or direct work. Psychologist Kim S. Golding shows how you can use stories to build connections with children aged 4 16 and support their recovery from trauma and stress. She illustrates the techniques with 21 stories adapted from her own clinical work with children and families, and explains how you can expand or adapt them to make them more relevant for a particular child. Advice and stories are arranged into sections dealing with common psychological issues, including looking back and moving on, lack of trust and need for attention. Golding also gives invaluable tips for planning stories and life story work, and for storymaking with children. She also describes how stories can be used therapeutically with parents of traumatized children and as a tool for self-reflection by counselors. Imaginative and practical, this book will be enormously useful for counselors, psychologists, therapists and social workers working with traumatized children, and will also be helpful for parents and carers involved in therapeutic parenting.Read more
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This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting: The SUNDAY TIMES bestseller from the hilarious teacher duo and podcast hosts, the Two Mr Ps
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
The side-splittingly hilarious and heart-warming new book from your favourite teacher duo and hosts of Two Mr Ps in a Pod(cast)
Remember the distant days of lockdown and those futile attempts to homeschool distracted, disinterested kids?
Parents rejoiced to send them back to school, while teachers prepared to face them all again … Five. Days. A. Week! Coming out the other side of the pandemic years, podcast sensations Lee and Adam Parkinson – aka the Two Mr Ps – bring you the most hilarious, ridiculous anecdotes from inside our primary schools.
Join in on the classroom antics as they share the unexpected pitfalls of online teaching, all the reasons you need a strong stomach to take on Early Years and why not every household item makes a suitable Harry Potter wand …
Lee Parkinson and Adam Parkinson’s book ‘This Is Your Own Time You’re Wasting’ was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 25-07-2022.
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CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education
Help your students master the knowledge and skills they need for the new CACHE Level 3 Award, Certificate and Diploma in Childcare & Education (Early Years Educator)
Written by experts Carolyn Meggitt and Tina Bruce, this is the only resource for the Level 3 Diploma in Childcare & Education (EYE) endorsed by CACHE. The approachable writing style makes learning key concepts both easy and enjoyable for all learners, and all aspects of the qualification are covered and linked to specific learning outcomes. This book will support your students through their assessment and the start of their careers.
– Communicates all the requirements of the new qualification fully with clearly stated learning
outcomes and key terms
– Shows how concepts are applied in real settings with numerous case studies
– ‘In Practice’ boxes give students the opportunity to check and reflect on their understanding
– Includes activity boxes linked to assessment criteria to prepare learners for examinations
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£28.20£30.40CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education
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