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:

• manage your money wisely

• save for your future

• cook simple and delicious meals

• find and apply for your first job

• keep your living space clean and organized

• deal with stress and anxiety

• 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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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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Life Story Therapy is an approach designed to enable children to explore, question and understand the past events of their lives. It aims to secure their future through strengthening attachment with their carers and providing the opportunity to develop a healthy sense of self and a feeling of wellbeing. This comprehensive overview lays out the theory underlying life story therapy, including an accessible explanation of contemporary research in neurobiology and trauma. Featuring tried and tested ideas, with tools and templates illustrated through instructive case studies, the author identifies how life story therapy can be implemented in practice. Finally, the relationships between life story therapy and traditional ‘talking’ therapies are explored. Life Story Therapy with Traumatized Children is essential reading for those working with children and adolescents, including social workers, teachers, child psychotherapists, residential care staff, long-term carers, psychologists and other professionals.

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