Creative Child

Tonight, don't read your child a story. Instead, dim the lights, lie down, and create storytelling magic. Weave a spell that will enchant your child. Tell Me a Story in the Dark provides you with every tool you need to tell great and entertaining stories. In a day when parents want to spend more quality time with their children, this shows you how to prepare and tell a story, communicates the enormous benefits ending the bedtime battle of wills, building vocabulary, making room for effective parenting moments, and more.

Zebra Tales - Nature Talks is the 7th book in the Wisdom of Mr. Stripes series. This book is designed to help alleviate bedtime stress by guiding a child through a magical visualization technique. Visualizations if taught at an earlier age will enhance many areas of a child's life. Visualization helps to improve concentration and encourages artistic creative abilities. The techniques create a more balance centered state, and stimulate a child imagination. Visualizations are very effective in helping children who tend to scatter their thoughts in different directions. Often after reading a ...

Parenting through the teenage years can be challenging and overwhelming. With more than 20 years of clinical practice, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune has devised a simple and proven 15-minute parenting model packed with practical, playful, and creative communication techniques to strengthen your relationship with your teenager.

Dive into the fascinating world of engaged learning with your child in this remarkable new eBook, Engaged Learning. Explore the rich tapestry of child development, the critical role of play, and the indispensable part parents play in their child's learning journey. Staying true to its title, Engaged Learning presents an entire chapter dedicated to understanding and implementing learning through play. Discover the benefits it brings to the educational process and experience firsthand the moments of joy and wonder that come with it. Creating an ideal learning environment goes beyond school ...

Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation-or if they're already in too deep.

With plenty of research-based guidance and step-by-step activities, this book will help your toddlers to speak in no time. And with proven strategies and easy-to-follow fun activities for toddlers, this book of 20 activities is an ideal addition to your homeschool educational material.

One in six women is the victim of sexual assault. Using her own hard-won wisdom, author Jen Cross shows how to heal through journaling and personal writing. Writing Ourselves Whole is a collection of essays and creative writing encouragements for sexual trauma survivors who want to risk writing a different story. Each short chapter offers encouragement, experience, and exercises.

Andreas Souvaliotis was raised at a time when being on the autism spectrum wasn't easily diagnosed or even discussed. Minds like his were simply considered odd. He also knew from an early age he was gay, and it terrified him as he was growing up with openly homophobic parents in one of Europe's least tolerant societies. Andreas' differences made him an outsider, right through to his mid-40s. And then suddenly, everything changed. Misfit is the extraordinary memoir of a man who realized there was strength in his strangeness, that it could be used as a force for good.

In this raw and revealing memoir, Lisa LeBlanc pulls back the curtain on her life as the youngest child growing up in a large farm family influenced by religious legalism. You will get a dose of hope when you listen to Lisa May LeBlanc narrate the story of her journey to hope and healing from trauma-induced mental illness.

A Culturematic is a little machine for making culture. It’s an ingenuity engine. The Culturematic acts as a probe into the often-alien world of contemporary culture, to test the atmosphere, to see what life it can sustain, to see who responds and how. Culturematics start small but can scale up ferociously, bootstrapping themselves as they go. Because they are so inexpensive, we can afford to fire off a multitude of them simultaneously. This is evolutionary strategy, iterative innovation, and rapid prototyping all at once.

Searching for a roadmap to raise a successful child who makes a positive difference in this world? Neuroscientist and mother Erin Clabough teaches that to thrive as adults, children need to learn self-regulation, a master life skill founded in empathy, creativity, and self-control. The lack of even one of these intertwined skills underlies nearly all of the parenting problems we face.

Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg realizes this means he's going to be sent to a different school than his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, he changes his tune. Can Greg and his classmates save their school before it's shuttered for good? Or is this the start of a whole new chapter for Greg?

Muzzle your shadow, and it will find a way to speak and act for you. It will say things you wish you had never said. It will deny, subvert and suppress your creative talents and it will be afraid of what will happen if you reveal your spiritual gifts. Shadow work will change your life. When you have the courage to meet, greet and explore the darkness within your psyche, you are graced with powerful insights into how you have been denying and repressing yourself. "The Shadow Work Diaries- How the Darkness You Fear Holds the Treasure You Seek,” is book two in the Embracing Your Shadow ...

Unleash your storytelling passion and bond with your child like never before with "The Giant Forest - Making of a Preteen Novel." Authored by an inspiring father-daughter duo, this book is more than a guide—it's an adventure into the heart of collaborative storytelling. Experience the thrill of creating a captivating six-book series, from the first idea spark to the final touches of proofreading and illustration. But there's more: enjoy an exclusive alternate ending and choose your side—Team Mia or Team Dad. This journey is about strengthening family bonds, unlocking creativity, and ...

Dive into the world of imagination, discovery, and connection with The Power of Play. This essential guide for parents and educators highlights the incredible impact of play on child development, covering everything from cognitive growth to emotional intelligence, and even physical skills. Unlock the secrets of enhancing problem-solving abilities and nurturing natural curiosity through playful activities. Develop emotional intelligence by helping children recognize and manage their emotions while fostering empathy and perspective-taking. Learn how play can improve both fine and gross motor ...

Having a safe harbor to call home is the bedrock of all cultures, nations, faiths, and societies. This foundational truth is clear. What is not always clear, however, is how we can pursue this goal for ourselves and our children. Parents are often busy, stressed, overworked, and have many concerns. Enjoy this easy-to-listen-to book filled with encouragement, best practices, and common sense reminders about how to create for you and your precious family the harbor home you always imagined you would have.

Even the youngest listeners and writers need to learn about plagiarism. Give listeners and writers the tools they need to evaluate and understand ownership of work.

Take a wild ride through fatherhood with Dale Alderman and his two young sons, Chase and Logan. You will laugh out loud as this goofball dad and his kinetic kids turn normal daily activities into hilarious escapades. Based on actual events that occurred over his first twelve years as a father, Dale presents a collection of funny stories including: Breast Pads and Nipple Cream, Honey, I Shrunk My Underpants, Do Not Hit Your Brother With a Stick, I Will Have the Prime Rib With a Side Order of Valium, The Hooter Fairy, and The Farmer Cuts the Cheese. Before he became a father, no one told Dale...

Weaving together philosophy, social science and neuroscience research, personal anecdotes and dialogues, The Philosophy of Childing takes a radically different approach to the traditional boundaries between childhood and adulthood to reveal how rather than lapse into adulthood, we can achieve what the Greeks arete - all-around excellence - when we look to children and youth as a lodestar for our development.

Packed with Montessori-based preschool activities and educational games that build confidence and independence through active learning, this authoritative illustrated guide helps raise self-reliant and creative children. Celebrate physical and intellectual milestones from birth to age six with activity checklists, and encourage development through proven child-centred teaching methods.