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Help Your Child Excel at Reading: An Essential Guide for Parents
by Katherine BatesFor fathers and their partners, a humorous laugh-out-loud introduction to the chaotic world of parenting, packaged as a retro car manual Regardless of the model you have taken delivery of, your baby will have certain standard equipment in common with all babies, and some which vary from model to model. No two Mother Nature Heavy Industries (MNHI) babies are identical. A humorous operating guide for fathers, this book likens a new baby to the other love in a man's life—no, not his wife, his car! This essential handbook covers everything from delivery of baby from Mother Nature Heavy Industries, regular servicing of your baby, standard equipment, the cooling system and liquid waste disposal, warning signs, even optimizing economy, and getting the most out of your baby. This is a must-have book for any father-to-be.
Help Your Child Feel Happier: 101 Ways to Boost Positivity and Self-Confidence
by Caroline RoopeSeeing your child experience unhappiness is difficult for any parentWith so many possible reasons for low mood, it can be challenging to know how best to support them. This guide will help you to communicate with your child and equip them with the tools to express themselves. Offering ideas for simple lifestyle tweaks, it will help you to help your child foster a more positive outlook and to build their resilience and self-confidence for life.Identify the source of your child’s low moodNurture a positive mindsetBuild self-confidenceLearn mood-boosting activitiesKnow when to seek support
Help Your Child Feel Happier: 101 Ways to Boost Positivity and Self-Confidence
by Caroline RoopeSeeing your child experience unhappiness is difficult for any parentWith so many possible reasons for low mood, it can be challenging to know how best to support them. This guide will help you to communicate with your child and equip them with the tools to express themselves. Offering ideas for simple lifestyle tweaks, it will help you to help your child foster a more positive outlook and to build their resilience and self-confidence for life.Identify the source of your child’s low moodNurture a positive mindsetBuild self-confidenceLearn mood-boosting activitiesKnow when to seek support
Help Your Child Make Friends: 101 Ways to Nurture Healthy and Happy Friendships
by Poppy O'NeillThis guide will help you teach your child what makes a healthy friendship, and equip them with the tools they need to build stronger bonds and feel more confident in making new friends. Offering ideas, information and simple tips that will help you talk to your child and show them how to develop their social skills.
Help Your Child Make Friends: 101 Ways to Nurture Healthy and Happy Friendships
by Poppy O'NeillThis guide will help you teach your child what makes a healthy friendship, and equip them with the tools they need to build stronger bonds and feel more confident in making new friends. Offering ideas, information and simple tips that will help you talk to your child and show them how to develop their social skills.
Help Your Child Manage Their Moods: 101 Ways to Cope With Big Feelings, Including Anger
by Louise BatyLearn to talk to your child about their big feelingsWe can all feel overwhelmed by big feelings, and this is especially true for children. They are still developing their emotional awareness and may struggle to manage their moods. While there’s nothing wrong with an emotionally sensitive child, it can make life a little more difficult for them if they become easily frustrated, cry more readily and experience low self-esteem and feelings of powerlessness. This guide will teach you the skills to nurture your child’s ability to notice, regulate and articulate their feelings in healthy, adaptive ways.Instil good sleeping and eating habitsHelp your child create a list of calming actions for when they feel angry or upsetIntroduce simple relaxation exercisesKnow when to seek support
Help your Child or Teen Get Back On Track: What Parents and Professionals Can Do for Childhood Emotional and Behavioral Problems
by Kenneth TalanHelp Your Child or Teen Get Back on Track offers specific self-help interventions and a wide-ranging, practical discussion of the types of professional help available for a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems. The book covers topics that would be discussed during a consultation with a child psychiatrist. The first section offers practical guidance and ideas to help parents understand their child's problems and learn to distinguish between normal disruption and that which warrants professional treatment. The second section of the book includes useful information for those parents who are considering, seeking, or already involved with professional help for their child. Essential reading for parents who are worried about a child or adolescent with emotional and behavioral problems, this book is also a useful resource for social workers, psychologists, school counselors, pediatricians, and adult psychiatrists.
Help Your Child to Read: Teach Yourself
by Dee Reid Diana BentleyHelp Your Child to Read: Teach Yourself shows you how to develop your child's skills and foster a love of books from an early age. From discovering the benefits of singing and rhyming together to learning letters and later helping them at school, it gives you all the practical advice you need to confidently help your child, whatever their age and reading ability.Teach Yourself - the world's leading learning brand - is relaunched in 2010 as a multi-platform experience that will keep you motivated to achieve your goals. Let our expert author guide you through this brand new edition, with personal insights, tips, energising self-tests and summaries throughout the book. Go online at www.teachyourself.com for tests, extension articles and a vibrant community of like-minded learners. And if you don't have much time, don't worry - every book gives you 1, 5 and 10-minute bites of learning to get you started.- Gives your child a head start- Shows you how to read with your baby- Explains how to teach basic letters- Shows you how to help them make progress at school
Help Your Children Cope With Your Divorce: A Relate Guide
by Paula HallChildren of all ages can be devastated by the news that their parents are splitting up. Even those who have been living in a highly conflictual situation are often shocked by their parents' final decision to separate. For most children, separation means major changes to family life and often losing a parent. The long-term impacts of divorce are now widely recognised with increasing chances of problems at school, criminal behaviour, problems in their own relationships and mental illness.This guide will provide you with clear advice and guidance on how to minimise the impact of your relationship breakdown on your children. Including:- An explanation of the age-specific issues that children face when they find out their family is breaking up- Professional comment, stories and quotes from children- Checklists and case studiesAcknowledging the personal difficulties faced by the adult who has made the decision to leave, as well as the adult who feels they are being abandoned, this sensitive, accessible guide is a must for all parents going through divorce or separation who are concerned for their children.
Help Your Kids with Adolescence: A No-Nonsense Guide to Puberty and the Teenage Years (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKDeal with the ups and downs of growing up. This visual guide to puberty and adolescence is a must-read for all parents and tweens embarking on those scary teenage years. This growing up book covers contemporary issues such as internet safety and tackles key topics such as sexuality and body image. Demystify puberty with this must-read home reference ebook. From your menstrual cycle to sexting, and even cyber-bullying.This straightforward, unpatronizing approach to tricky topics is the essential illustrated guide to adolescence for both parents and their teens. The stunning graphics and illustrations make this invaluable for tweens and teens alike.Help Your Kids With Adolescence is a guide for modern kids coming into their teen years. It addresses topical issues like body image, the effects of social media, and sexting. It also offers a biological explanation for the physical side of being a teenager from mood swings, periods, and breaking voices. This ebook offers a no-nonsense, non-judgemental approach to help parents and their kids navigate their way through puberty and adolescence. Sexuality, Confidence, Social Media, Emotions, Stress!Puberty and adolescence can be a confusing and complex time. Help Your Kids With Adolescence offers straightforward advice to help parents and children survive and thrive during the turbulent teenage years. Emotional well-being, physical changes, online safety, family dynamics, relationships, sexuality, and much more are discussed and explained through jargon-free text and simple, clear illustrations. Engaging graphics and illustrations make this modern, comprehensive guide to adolescence invaluable for tweens and teens alike. Whether as a quick-reference guide or cover-to-cover read.This self-understanding and self-development ebook will discuss and explain the following topics:- Growing Up- Female Puberty- Male Puberty- Healthy Body- Healthy Mind- Achieving Potential - Digital Life- Sexuality- Relationships - And more.DK&’s bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help with children get the most out of life. Get help with anything from geography and music to maths, SATs, and growing up.
Help Your Kids with Computer Coding: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide, from Binary Code to Building Games (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKDon't just play computer games with your kids—build them! All you need is a desktop or laptop with Adobe 10.2 or later, and an internet connection to download Scratch 2.0 and Python 3. Coding with Scratch can be done without download on https://scratch.mit.edu.Help Your Kids with Computer Coding is a straightforward, visual guide to helping kids understand the basics of computer coding using Scratch and Python coding languages. Essential coding concepts like scripts, variables, and strings are explained using build-along projects and games.Kids can create online games to play like Monkey Mayhem and Bubble Blaster, draw mazes and shapes, build animations, and more using the step-by-step examples to follow and customize. Seven projects let kids—and their parents—practice the skills as they are learning in each section of the book. Kids get instant results, even when completely new to coding.Packed with visual examples, expert tips, a glossary of key terms, and extras such as profiles of famous coders, Help Your Kids with Computer Coding lays a hands-on foundation for coding so adults and kids can learn together.Supporting STEM education initiatives, computer coding teaches kids how to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically, and is quickly becoming a necessary and sought-after skill. DK's computer coding books are full of fun exercises with step-by-step guidance, making them the perfect introductory tools for building vital skills in computer programming. Series Overview: DK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.
Help Your Kids with Geography: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKHelp your kids to be the best in their geography class. This book will help you to understand what they&’re being taught so you can answer all their geography questions. This book is what every frustrated parent needs. Its innovative approach combines colorful diagrams and illustrations with step-by-step explanations, making geography easier to understand than ever before. Covering all the core subjects for 10–16 year olds, from oceans and volcanoes to climate change and population growth, this invaluable guide allows parents and kids to work together to understand even the trickiest topics. You will both soon be experts in map reading, plate tectonics, data handling, and much more.Explore the pages of this great geography book for kids to find:- Concepts of human and physical geography, including fieldwork skills, are made simple, with clear text and step-by-step explanations.- Covers not just aspects of physical geography and human geography, but presents practical skills necessary for succeeding in the subject.- Stimulates children&’s interest in geography, maps, geological features, and human interaction- All content reviewed by educational consultants.- Provides key support for developing geography skills at home alongside school studiesFully revised and updated for 2023, Help Your Kids with Geography is guaranteed to build confidence, reduce stress, and make even the most difficult aspects of this subject simple, clear, and accessible.
Help Your Kids with Geography, Grades 5-10: A Unique Step-By-Step Visual Guide (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKWhen homework feels like a big mountain to climb for your kids, help them reach the top of their geography class with this unique step-by-step visual guide. Covering all the core subjects for kids ages 10-16, from oceans to volcanoes to climate change and population growth, this invaluable guide allows parents and kids to work together to understand even the trickiest topics.Inside of the pages of this subject aid, you&’ll find: • Concepts of human and physical geography, including fieldwork skills, using easy to follow explanations. • Presentations about practical skills necessary for succeeding in the subject. • Key support for developing geography skills at home alongside school studies. Fully revised and updated for 2021 to include global pandemics, climate change, mega cities and data science, Help Your Kids with Geography builds confidence, reduces stress and makes even the most difficult aspects of this subject simple, clear, and accessible for kids in grades 5-11. Brush up on your own knowledge of the earth sciences, weather systems, topography and biogeography with interesting facts to help your kids navigate the longitude and latitude of their homework.Help Your Kids With series covers a range of school subjects like Math, Science, English, Computer Coding and Computer Skills, and there&’s even a Help Your Kids With Study Skills to make schoolwork less frustrating for students and parents.
Help Your Kids with Language Arts: A Step-by-Step Visual Guide to Grammar, Punctuation, and Writing (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKIf English is sounding like a foreign language, make it easy and effortless with the ultimate study guide.This visual reference book takes you through all the different parts of the English language, leaving you ready to help your children tackle the trickiest of subjects. DK's unique study aid encourages parents and children to work together as a team to understand and use all aspects of the English language, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling. This latest title in the best-selling Help Your Kids series… combines pictures, diagrams, instructions, and examples to cover the components of the school syllabus, while building knowledge, boosting confidence, and aiding understanding. With your support, children can overcome the challenges of English, leaving them calm, confident, and exam ready. Series Overview: DK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.
Help Your Kids with Math: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide (DK Help Your Kids)
by Barry LewisIf you and your child find math mindboggling, then you can count on this ultimate home-study guide to get all the answers you need. This visual reference book gets you ready to help your children tackle the trickiest of subjects. From algebra and angles to sequences and statistics – and everything in between – Carol Vorderman's unique study companion sums it all up. Help Your Kids with Math encourages parents and children to work together as a team to solve even the most challenging problems on the school syllabus. Made with home learning in mind, this book uses a clear mix of pictures, diagrams, and instructions help to build knowledge, boost confidence, and gain understanding. With your support, children can overcome the challenges of math, leaving them calm, confident, and exam ready.Series Overview: DK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple graphics and jargon-free text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.
Help Your Kids with Music, Ages 10-16: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide & Free Audio App (DK Help Your Kids)
by Carol VordermanDemystify the subject of music theory with this visual guide, reducing the stress of studying music and helping your child with their music homework. With free online audio.Covering everything from semitones and note values to harmony and music appreciation, Help Your Kids with Music takes you on a clear and easy step-by-step path through all things music. With free supporting audio available. This straightforward guide uses clear, accessible pictures and diagrams to approach even the most complex musical theory with confidence. The use of bright colors breaks up the black and white confusion of musical notes and helps you to easily understand key topics. You&’ll also find a glossary of key musical terms and symbols for quick reference, and a supporting audio to help you understand the music you are seeing. This visual guide clearly explains key concepts in five step-by-step chapters:- The Basics explains the types of instruments, notation for keyboard and stringed instruments, the "musical alphabet," and counting a beat.- Rhythm covers the length of notes and rests, as well as basic rhythms and meters, phrasing, syncopation, tempo, and using a metronome- Tone and Melody includes everything a student needs to know about tones and how they work together to build a melody- Chords and Harmony shows how intervals work together and includes examples for horn and woodwind instruments- Form and Interpretation helps students understand how musical form can aid appreciation and interpretation for classical, jazz, blues, and other musical styles.Suitable for those working on music at school or as an extra subject, this valuable guide covers music theory from Grades 1-5. Whether you're approaching the subject yourself or simply supporting someone else through their studies, Help Your Kids with Music simplifies the world of musical notation and study for everyone.Series OverviewDK's bestselling Help Your Kids With series contains crystal-clear visual breakdowns of important subjects. Simple illustrations and clear text are key to making this series a user-friendly resource for frustrated parents who want to help their children get the most out of school.
Help Your Kids with Study Skills: A Unique Step-by-Step Visual Guide (DK Help Your Kids)
by DKStressed about your studies? Struggling with subjects? Anxious about exams?This fantastic visual guide is here to help children and parents get the most out of school and make curriculum learning an enjoyable experience. With bright visuals and brilliant step-by-step content, this is the helping hand parents need to guide their children through the challenges of education. You&’ll discover all the best practical techniques to gather knowledge, master revision, boost memory, create study plans, and excel at exams. You&’ll also learn to keep calm with workable ways of building confidence, getting motivated, handling pressure, and managing anxiety. Help Your Kids with Study Skills offers invaluable advice on how to support your child's classwork, homework, and revision right up to the exams. Covering everything from staying healthy and creating a work space to setting goals and studying online, this absolutely essential book encourages real world skills for lifelong learning. The book presents crystal-clear bite-sized text and jargon-free explanations to conquer difficult concepts and tricky subjects, including maths, science, history, and geography. DK&’s best-selling Help Your Kids series ensures frustrated parents and confused children find studying more simple and straightforward than ever before.
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
by Daniel Le Grange James LockIf your teenager shows signs of having an eating disorder, you may hope that, with the right mix of love, encouragement, and parental authority, he or she will just "snap out of it." If only it were that simple. To make matters worse, certain treatments assume you've somehow contributed to the problem and prohibit you from taking an active role. But as you watch your own teen struggle with a life-threatening illness, every fiber of your being tells you there must be some part you can play in restoring your child's health. In Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, James Lock and Daniel Le Grange--two of the nation's top experts on the treatment of eating disorders--present compelling evidence that your involvement as a parent is critical. In fact, it may be the key to conquering your child's illness. Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder provides the tools you need to build a united family front that attacks the illness to ensure that your child develops nourishing eating habits and life-sustaining attitudes, day by day, meal by meal. Full recovery takes time, and relapse is common. But whether your child has already entered treatment or you're beginning to suspect there is a problem, the time to act is now. This book shows how.
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
by James Lock Daniel Le GrangeEating disorders are among the most dangerous--and misunderstood--adolescent mental health problems. When your teenager shows signs of an eating disorder, where can you turn? Now in a revised and updated third edition, this trusted resource helps you separate fact from myth and play an active role in your child's recovery. Treatment experts James Lock and Daniel Le Grange spell out what parents need to know about anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID). They guide you step by step to find the right care, monitor your teen's eating and exercise habits, manage family meals, end weight-related power struggles, and team successfully with professionals. The revised third edition incorporates key research and treatment advances, new vignettes, and expanded coverage of ARFID. When families work together to get the most out of treatment and prevent relapse, eating disorders can be beat--this book is your essential roadmap.
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, Second Edition
by Daniel Le Grange James LockTens of thousands of parents have turned to this compassionate guide for support and practical advice grounded in cutting-edge scientific knowledge. Top experts James Lock and Daniel Le Grange explain what you need to know about eating disorders, which treatments work, and why it is absolutely essential to play an active role in your teen's recovery--even though parents have often been told to take a back seat. Learn how to monitor your teen's eating and exercise, manage mealtimes, end weight-related power struggles, and partner successfully with health care providers. When families work together to get the most out of treatment and prevent relapse, eating disorders can be beat. This book is your essential roadmap. Featuring the latest research, resources, and diagnostic information, the second edition has been expanded to cover binge-eating disorder.
Help Your Twentysomething Get a Life...And Get It Now
by Ross CampbellAn up-to-date guide for parents of kids in their twenties, this insightful resource gives proactive strategies for dealing with today's over-tolerant, media-driven, issue-crazed society. Includes how to measure maturity, whether or not to remodel the basement, guidance on dealing with lifestyle disagreements and spiritual issues, and whether or not to help financially. Help Your Twentysomething Get a Life...And Get It Now guides parents in helping without enabling or manipulating, encouraging their twentysomething to make wise decisions and take responsibility for all areas of their life.
Helpers In Childbirth: Midwifery Today
by Ann Oakley Susanne HoudFirst Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Helping (Berenstain Bears Gifts of the Spirit)
by Mike BerenstainWhile Mama Bear is away, Papa thinks he can handle everything. The cubs offer to help out when Papa learns that he bit of more than he can chew in this humorous Berenstain Bears Gifts of the Spirit storybook!Families will enjoy this sweet, faith-based story filled with fun, colorful illustrations—it&’s the perfect read-aloud for any day!When Papa Bear makes a mess of things while Mama is away, the cubs come to the rescue with a little help around the house! This 32-page hardcover storybook, created by Mike Berenstain, son of Stan and Jan Berenstain, includes a soon-to-be classic story about the joy of helping others.The Berenstain Bears Gifts of the Spirit series celebrates the joy of faith, family, and friends—values essential to a wholesome and fulfilling life!
Helping Adults with Asperger's Syndrome Get & Stay Hired: Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the Autism Spectrum
by Barbara BissonnetteEmployment expert Barbara Bissonnette provides strategies that professionals and parents need to guide individuals with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder) to manageable jobs, and keep them employed. Career counselors and coaches, vocational rehabilitation specialists, other professionals, and parents are often unsure of how to assist people with Asperger's Syndrome. Traditional career assessments and protocols do not match their unique needs. In this practical book, readers will gain insight into how people with Asperger's Syndrome think and the common employment challenges they face. It explains how to build rapport and trust, facilitate better job matches, improve interpersonal communication and executive function skills, and encourage flexible-thinking and problem-solving. With tried-and-tested advice, assessment tools, and in-depth profiles of actual coaching clients and innovative companies that are utilizing the specialized skills of people with Asperger's, this book shows the way to a brighter employment future for those on the autism spectrum.
Helping Autistic Teens to Manage their Anxiety: Strategies and Worksheets using CBT, DBT, and ACT Skills
by Dr Theresa KiddDrawing on the author's extensive clinical and research experience, this book presents practical strategies purposefully developed for parents, therapists and teachers working with autistic adolescents experiencing anxiety. In addition, it features chapters dedicated to assisting parents in supporting their anxious child.The book outlines the co-occurence of anxiety and autism, highlights specific anxiety risks and triggers, and presents practical solutions for overcoming barriers to therapeutic engagement. A collection of CBT, ACT and DBT-informed practical worksheets are included, making this book ideal for use at home, at school or in OT, Psychology and Speech sessions.