Parent Education

Written by a 20-year veteran of college admissions at three different colleges and a homeschooling dad, The Homeschool College Planner provides a unique, experienced perspective with all the tools you need to help your student make a successful launch to college - all in a condensed, easy-to-reference format.

Frustrated or overwhelmed by the college admissions process? Imagine how confusing it may be for your college-bound teen. It's important for your maturing high schooler to be in the driver's seat of applying to and choosing the right school. But, how can you support and guide your teen without taking over? This book explains each step in the process and provides clear, concise tips on what your student should be doing, when they should be doing it, and why each step is so important.

Are you a new parent who needs a guide on parenting, or are you already a parent and just want to ensure you are on the right parenting path? This audiobook covers topics that no one teaches and sets you on the right path to being a calm and patient parent.

Through the voices of students themselves, Fires in the Mind brings a game-changing question to teachers of adolescents: What does it take to get really good at something? Starting with what they already know and do well, teenagers from widely diverse backgrounds join a cutting-edge dialogue with adults about the development of mastery in and out of school. Their insights frame motivation, practice, and academic challenge in a new light that galvanizes more powerful learning for all.

In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill's profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo-American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for more than a century.

The Practical Guide to the Montessori Method at Home is aimed at parents who want to integrate the Montessori philosophy at home with their children. The guide is written in a pleasant and accessible tone, and has been structured.

Do you have a child that needs help with math? If you do, please keep reading. According to The National Assessment of Educational Progress, in 2017, only 40 percent of fourth-grade students were at or above proficient in mathematics, up from 25 percent in 2000. Sixty percent of students were not proficient in math. Is your child one of that 60 percent? Additional resources help and this audiobook is one of those resources. Even if you struggled with math in school, you can use this audiobook to help your child.

You want the best for your child, it’s true, and you might think that “the best” is gifting them with material things that will only bring momentary happiness. For those of you who can’t afford to do so, you see yourselves as failing parents. The truth is, what saves our children and what saves a family are the things that can’t be bought, but can only be taught, learned, and practiced.

When I started out on this journey, it all seemed pretty simple: I thought that love would be enough to see me through. I had no idea what it would take to create a fully blended family - just how many factors and emotions would be involved or how deep it would all go. How to Build a Family is the nurturing handbook I wish I'd been given. In it you'll find my experiences, as well as those of other blended families (because every family is unique), along with advice and tips from the experts who have guided me.

Schluss mit Ängsten und Blockaden: Lernen kann und muss Spaß machen! Schlechte Noten, Frust bei den Hausaufgaben, hoher Leistungsdruck: Für viele Familien sind Schule und Lernen ein rotes Tuch. Wie bekommen Kinder wieder Freude am Lernen, Neugierde auf Neues? Wie überwindet man Stagnation und Resignation? Caroline von St. Ange hat die Lösung und kombiniert dafür verschiedene Ansätze und Lernmethoden. Sie gibt zahlreiche fantasievolle und praxisnahe Tipps und entfernt dabei eine Menge Staub von festgefahrenen Lernstrategien und altmodischen Annahmen.

As the female CEO of a tech startup, Dr. Cristal Glangchai was outnumbered 20 to one. At Google, Twitter, and Facebook, women currently fill just 10 to 20 percent of technical jobs. While career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math have increased dramatically in the past 20 years, the achievement gap between men and women has only grown wider. In VentureGirls, Glangchai offers a unique solution based on her own experience as an engineer and entrepreneur as well as the founder of the VentureLab, an academy of entrepreneurship and technology for girls.

Hello kids and parents. Are you looking for an interactive book to help your child with spelling? You have come to the right place. The lessons attached include more than 460 five-letter words and sentences that will help sharpen your child’s thinking skills and help you and your child have some fun together. They are broken up into six different chapters. Words to do with sports, words with an N in them, words to do with work, words with an A in them, and two chapters of miscellaneous five-letter words.

Common Core is not your typical education reform idea. It is a giant step towards the goal of federalized, corporate-run education, the underlying ambition of elitists in this country for more than 100 years. Parents and educators cannot rely on what they read or hear from the creators of the Common Core for the truth. One must dig deeper, past the lies, to understand the implications of the Common Core agenda.

Following the tremendous success of The Distance Learning Playbook, K-12, education authorities Doug Fisher, Nancy Frey, and John Hattie have teamed up with New York Times bestselling author and parenting expert Rosalind Wiseman to bring you the consummate guide to support your child's academic, social, and emotional development in any learning environment—while not overwhelming you in the process.

Community leaders and activists Gómez and Arroyo worked with children, teenagers, and parents - both the victims and the bullies - to put together this searing anthology of original essays, poetry, plays, and commentary on how bullying has affected their lives.

Neil McNerney, a licensed counselor and parenting expert, will share ways to help your child do better in school without arguments, yelling, or guilt. In his 25 years working with school-age children and their parents, Neil McNerney has developed a simple and powerful approach that will increase achievement and decrease aggravation! While most homework books are focused on study techniques, Homework, focuses on how parents can be powerful leaders in their kid's education.

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what? Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League Dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike.

So you're about to have a baby? And you have no idea what to do? This is the book for you armed with 10 of the most important steps to prepare for a baby. Men can be ahead of the game with these 10 steps that can keep you out of the doghouse. Men, get this for yourself; women get this for your guy.

The Ultimate Guide to Home Schooling is an audiobook that every homeschooling family should have! When you homeschool your children, you can shape their education according to your own standards, values, and ideas. This audiobook provides you with all the information, inspiration, and encouragement you need to easily and successfully homeschool your children at almost all level of education. This guide is packed full of ideas to make homeschooling your child easy, affordable, and, most of all, fun.

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