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  • The Brightening Glance

    Imagination and Childhood

    by Ellen Handler Spitz ...
    In this remarkable book, Ellen Handler Spitz shows how to promote children’s creative and emotional growth by making the most of the unlimited possibilities of everyday experiences.Through delightful anecdotes about real children and their treasures, bedrooms, play spaces, music, scary things, and birthday parties, The Brightening Glance will inspire you to create a life of wonder, inventiveness, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Right-Brained Children in a Left-Brained World

    Unlocking the Potential of Your ADD Child

    by Laurie Parsons, Jeffrey Freed ...
    Jeffrey Freed and Laurie Parsons provide an effective method for helping children with Attention Deficit Disorder excel in a classroom setting.In straightforward language, this book explains how to use the innovative "Learning Styles Inventory" to test for a right-brained learning style; help an ADD child master spelling—and build confidence—by committing complicated words to visual memory; tap an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • I Wish My Teacher Knew

    How One Question Can Change Everything for Our Kids

    by Kyle Schwartz ...
    One day, third-grade teacher Kyle Schwartz asked her students to fill-in-the-blank in this sentence: "I wish my teacherknew _____." The results astounded her. Some answers were humorous, others were heartbreaking-all were profoundly moving and enlightening. The results opened her eyes to the need for educators to understand the unique realities their students face in order to create an open, safe ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life Skills for Kids

    Equipping Your Child for the Real World

    by Christine Field ...
    Does your child know how to use a check book? Boil an egg? Do the laundry? Read a map? Homeschooler Christine Field helps parents systematically teach kids - from preschool to the teen years - what they need to know to thrive as adults. ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • From Learning Disabilities to Success

    by Kathy Johnson ...
    A step-by-step guide for Parents and Educators to treat the symptoms of Learning Disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia and more! ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Most Important Year

    Pre-Kindergarten and the Future of Our Children

    by Suzanne Bouffard ...
    An eye-opening look inside pre-K in America and what it will take to give all children the best start in school possible.At the heart of this groundbreaking book are two urgent questions: What do our young children need in the earliest years of school, and how do we ensure that they all get it? Cutting-edge research has proven that early childhood education is crucial for all children to gain the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

    Cultural Guidance for Professionals

    Edited by Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy ...
    With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Children, Media and Playground Cultures

    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    by R. Willett, C. Richards, J. Marsh, A. Burn, J. C Bishop ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Youth
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Being a Parent

    Unchanging Values in a Changing World

    by Karl Bernhardt ...
    Series series Heritage
    During his thirty years with the Institute of Child Study of the University of Toronto the late Dr. Karl S. Bernhardt wrote hundreds of articles and gave hundreds of talks to parents on the best way to bring up children. His philosophy is based on a belief in the worth of the individual. He believed that the goal of child-rearing should be to develop a feeling of security in the individual, and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Roman Girlhood and the Fashioning of Femininity

    by Lauren Caldwell ...
    Elite women in the Roman world were often educated, socially prominent, and even relatively independent. Yet the social regime that ushered these same women into marriage and childbearing at an early age was remarkably restrictive. In the first book-length study of girlhood in the early Roman Empire, Lauren Caldwell investigates the reasons for this paradox. Through an examination of literary, ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Promising Practices for Fathers' Involvement in Children's Education

    Edited by Hsiu-Zu Ho, Diana Hiatt-Michael ...
    Series series Family School Community Partnership Issues
    A timely collection of sound research addresses father involvement in their children’s education. Promising Practices for Fathers’ Involvement in Their Children’s Education visits a less known side of parent involvement, the side of fathers’ active engagement with their children’s education in the home and that is less visible in the schools. Their contributions from preschool to career decision ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Passages to America: Oral Histories of Child Immigrants from Ellis Island and Angel Island

    by Emmy E. Werner ...
    More than twelve million immigrants, many of them children, passed through Ellis Island's gates between 1892 and 1954. Children also came through the “Guardian of the Western Gate,” the detention center on Angel Island in California that was designed to keep Chinese immigrants out of the United States. Based on the oral histories of fifty children who came to the United States before 1950, this ... Read more

    $16.95 USD