School Development

Transform your life with this essential guide and empathetic companion. It makes your parenting journey easy and enjoyable while enabling your tween to thrive in middle school and life.

Dear Diary Boy is an intensely personal, heartwarming, and heartbreaking chronicle of one mother and child's experience in a prestigious private Tokyo school. It's a tale that will resonate with all parents as we try to answer the age-old questions of how best to educate our children and what, truly, is in their best interests versus what is in our own.

Unleash your inner brilliant vixen, pick the right high-quality man, and live your dream of a romantic happy-ever-after. How many times have you met a new man and been filled with hope that this time you’ve met Mr. Right only to find a few dates later that he’s Mr. Wrong? But what if you could stop wasting precious time? What if you could bring out your best self and attract a high-quality man? The good news is you can!

Discover the power of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, rewire your brain, free your mind from negativity and set yourself up for success.

This book teaches you how to raise your gifted child from infancy. It is designed to meet you where you are, regardless of whether your child is a toddler, middle schooler, high schooler, college student, or adult. This book has a wealth of information. You will learn how to navigate the different stages of your child as they advance from infancy to adulthood. This book also contains tips and real-life scenarios that give you wisdom for handling other challenges with your child, including hyperlexia.

Synthesizing cutting-edge research and first-hand reporting, Peg Tyre offers parents far smarter and more sophisticated ways to assess a classroom and decide if the school and the teacher have the right stuff. Passionate and persuasive, The Good School empowers parents to make sense of headlines; constructively engage teachers, administrators, and school boards; and figure out the best options for their children.

Unlock an entire new level of ability, and gain the street-knowledge and confidence to have real conversations in Spanish. This book will teach you 101 of the most popular Spanish idioms and phrases that take you beyond the basics you may have learned in school.

Through the stories of kids and parents in the middle school trenches, a New York Times best-selling author reveals why these years are so painful, how parents unwittingly make them worse, and what we all need to do to grow up.

You Were Born to Be More Than a Bystander. You weren’t made to sit on the sidelines. You were made to speak up, build something bold, and lead with confidence—right now, not “someday.” Street Smart, Life Ready is a guide for teens who want to take control of their future before the cap and gown. It’s not just motivational—it’s a practical roadmap filled with real-world tips to help you build your personal brand, find your voice, and launch your first hustle while you're still in school. If you’ve ever felt underestimated, overlooked, or told to wait your turn—this book is ...

Kids today are facing unprecedented pressures—and their mental health is suffering. Building Happier Kids offers practical, concrete steps you can take to help your kids and yourself! Dr. Bhargava prescribes taking an intentional pause from modern life's nonstop pace to focus on ways you can meaningfully impact your family's emotional well-being. Overscheduling, homework, and ever-present electronic devices may make these seem easier said than done, but Dr. Bhargava offers realistic, balanced advice that will help you prioritize health and restore the happiness of childhood.

Every parent’s dream is within your reach. In Parenting Siblings Without Rivalry, you will discover how to equip your kids with the right skills to manage conflicts on their own, so you won’t have to, how to prepare your children for a new arrival in the family, the essential family activity you should regularly schedule to defuse any issues before they escalate, why you shouldn’t treat your children equally, and how to treat them instead, how to handle your child’s feelings of jealousy when one child needs or gets more attention than the other, and more.

In Angry Child No More, Laurence Pierce provides a step-by-step roadmap for parents to address their child’s anger at its core while also managing their own frustrations. With science-backed strategies and practical techniques, this book equips families with tools to break the anger cycle and create a peaceful, happy home. You might think, “This won’t work for my family. My child’s anger is different.” But Angry Child No More isn’t about quick fixes or generic advice.

Overcoming School Avoidance tackles one of the fastest-growing issues facing families everywhere: the increasing number of children who are refusing or reluctant to attend school. Often misunderstood as defiance or opposition, school avoidance can be a sign of deeper emotional or mental health challenges. Yet, many parents find themselves unprepared when these behaviors arise and struggle to find the right support.

Welcome to "Playground Stories," an anthology that delves into the richness of human experience through the lens of playground interactions. These spaces are more than just areas for play; they are microcosms of society where foundational skills of human interaction are first developed. In the playground, children and adults alike engage in activities that teach them vital life lessons about communication, sharing, and conflict resolution. On the playground, games are more than mere entertainment—they are lessons in leadership, teamwork, rivalry, and deceit. Team sports like soccer and ...

We can’t always plan for what’s next—that’s been made more and more clear in the past few years. The truth is that life is never predictable, especially as parents. What is possible is your unlimited capacity for compassion, and caring—for yourself and for your children. As you navigate the uncertainty with openness and humility, you find the clarity, connection and community that is Zen Parenting.

Anger is, without a doubt, one of the most difficult emotions to talk about. In many of our cultures, anger is viewed with fear and suspicion due to the ways in which it manifests. And even in our own personal lives, angry reactions and ineffective ways of dealing with conflicts usually result in discord and resentment. It is, therefore, very essential that we gain a clear understanding of anger and the influence it has on our lives.

This interactive spelling practice is all your first, second, or third grader needs to excel at spelling. The follow-along style is optimal for the fastest learning and mastering of spelling.

A word-of-mouth best seller which has become one of the best loved and most successful books in the parenting field. Steve Biddulph's Raising Boys is to be released on audio with some startling new research on what helps - and what harms - boys. In this expanded and updated audio edition, Steve Biddulph shares and gives practical and honest advice to parents so they can recognise the different stages of boyhood and learn how to raise happy, confident and kind young men.

Parenting has never been the easiest job in the world, but with all the parenting advice out there, it's hard not to become bewildered. Today everybody has a different method for dealing with the madness. And who's to say one method is better than another? How do you choose? The truth is that whatever drumbeat you march to, all parents would agree that we just want our kids to be happy. But in the face of all the many parenting theories out there, happiness feels like it has become incidental.

Late school projects? Missing tennis shoes? Sibling squabbles? Arguing over the fact that laundry belongs in the hamper? Rushing out the door in the morning? If any of this sounds familiar, you're in the right place.