Quick Guide to Good Kids

Quick Guide to Good Kids
Author: Virginia Bentz
Publisher: Frederick Fell Publishers
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780883911532

Being a good parent is more complicated than ever. Kids are exposed to a jungle of dangers: premature sex, underage drinking, drug use, etc. Yet, parents are so busy that many despair of their ability to transform their children into high-functioning adults. In Quick Guide to Good Kids, Virginia Bentz shows how parents can be a strong line of defense for their children. By managing the environment of your offspring when you are with them, you'll help ensure that they make the right decisions when you aren't. Bentz's strategies are simple: . Spend lots of time with babies; it's the age at which they're most receptive.. Don't criticize. Children come to believe what you tell them.. The teacher's word is law-don't argue with her.. Don't quit. You must teach by example how work gets done.. Know where your teenagers are. Period.The bottom line? Parents have lots of time to help their children grow into successful and happy adults-they simply have to know how to use it. For more information, visit www.QuickGuideToGoodKids.com.

Quick Guide to Good Kids

Quick Guide to Good Kids
Author: Virginia Bentz
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2005-07
Genre: Child rearing
ISBN: 9780883911389

Being a good parent is more complicated than ever. Kids are exposed to a jungle of dangers: premature sex, underage drinking, drug use, and so on. Yet, parents are so busy that many despair about their ability to transform their children into high-functioning adults. In "Quick Guide to Good Kids," Virginia Bentz shows how parents can be a strong line of defense for their children. By managing the environment of your offspring when you are with them, you'll help ensure that they make the right decisions when you aren't.

Emily Post's The Guide to Good Manners for Kids

Emily Post's The Guide to Good Manners for Kids
Author: Cindy P. Senning
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2009-04-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0061903744

Since 1922, the name Emily Post has represented good manners based on kindness, courtesy, and unselfishness. Today, the third generation of Post authors, Peggy Post and Cindy Post Senning, offers the children of the twenty-first century a comprehensive guide to good manners. This book is full of the simple, practical advice that Emily herself would have offered. Written with kids in mind and full of bold illustrations, emily post's the guide to good manners for kids is a reference guide that children will use and parents can trust. It covers just about every situation a kid will face: writing thank-you notes attending after-school events using the Internet safely speaking -- politely -- on cell phones participating in weddings helping out at home Emily Post's The Guide to Good Manners for Kids has all the information on etiquette busy children -- and busy parents -- will need as they go about their daily lives.

The Giver

The Giver
Author: Lois Lowry
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2014
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 054434068X

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.

A Parent's Guide to Snapchat

A Parent's Guide to Snapchat
Author: Axis
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 8
Release: 2018-08-01
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0830777016

Why are teens so obsessed with Snapchat? And what do they even do on it? This guide will help you better understand the app itself, why it’s appealing, and how to have conversations about it with your teens. Parent Guides are your one-stop shop for biblical guidance on teen culture, trends, and struggles. In 15 pages or fewer, each guide tackles issues your teens are facing right now—things like doubts, the latest apps and video games, mental health, technological pitfalls, and more. Using Scripture as their backbone, these Parent Guides offer compassionate insight to teens’ world, thoughts, and feelings, as well as discussion questions and practical advice for impactful discipleship.

Xenocide

Xenocide
Author: Orson Scott Card
Publisher: Tor Books
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429963964

The war for survival of the planet Lusitania will be fought in the heart of a child named Gloriously Bright. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought. Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to become adults. The Starways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second xenocide seems inevitable. Xenocide is the third novel in Orson Scott Card's The Ender Saga. THE ENDER UNIVERSE Ender series Ender’s Game / Ender in Exile / Speaker for the Dead / Xenocide / Children of the Mind Ender’s Shadow series Ender’s Shadow / Shadow of the Hegemon / Shadow Puppets / Shadow of the Giant / Shadows in Flight Children of the Fleet The First Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) Earth Unaware / Earth Afire / Earth Awakens The Second Formic War (with Aaron Johnston) The Swarm /The Hive Ender novellas A War of Gifts /First Meetings At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Quick Guide to Smart Food for Smart Kids

A Quick Guide to Smart Food for Smart Kids
Author: Patrick Holford
Publisher: Piatkus
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2014-03-27
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 0349404828

Every parent wants their child to be happy, healthy and perform well at school. So how can you help your child achieve this? Surprising as it may seem, your child's diet plays a large part. In this concise, easy-to-follow book Patrick Holford and Fiona McDonald Joyce show parents how to maximise their child's health - and brainpower - by improving their diet. Based on Smart Food for Smart Kids, an in-depth book by the same authors, this guide distils the main points of that book and includes the four golden rules for ensuring your child is getting everything they need from their diet. Food builds the very structure of your child's brain and governs how your child thinks and feels to a massive degree, so it's vital you understand the basics of giving your child the best possible foods. A Quick Guide to Smart Food for Smart Kids will help you make the best decisions on what to include - and exclude - from you child's diet. NOTE: the information in this book is taken from Smart Food for Smart Kids, by the same authors.

The Kids' (and Parents', Too!) Book of Good Sportsmanship

The Kids' (and Parents', Too!) Book of Good Sportsmanship
Author: Leslie Susskind
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2015-08-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9781516830107

Do you have little athletes in your family? Then this colorful, engaging book is the perfect way to help them understand what it means - and how important it is - to be a Good Sport. Soccer? Dancing? Swimming? Whatever sport they do, they'll learn easy, basic sports manners through reading familiar situations featuring kids just like them. Parents, you'll also find handy reminders for you with each tip, so that the entire family can learn to be Good Sports together.

Good Kids, Bad Habits

Good Kids, Bad Habits
Author: Dr. Jennifer Trachtenberg
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2010-10-12
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0062035029

When kids start going on TV binges or devouring fistfuls of cookies, it's easy to say, "They'll grow out of it." More likely, they're acquiring bad habits that could lead to childhood obesity and chronic adult diseases, from diabetes and depression to heart trouble and osteoporosis. But by making simple changes now, you can help your children avoid these problems later. Good Kids, Bad Habits supplies the tools you need, starting with the unique RealAge® Healthy Kids Test. Based on the proven RealAge Test, which measures biological—not calendar—age, the Healthy Kids Test reveals where children are doing fine and where they're headed for health trouble. Regardless of the problem—from sleeplessness to video-game addiction—Dr. Jen has seen and solved it all, working with parents and kids together. Her insightful tips, preventive steps, and kid smarts, learned from working with thousands of children, make this book invaluable. It will help your kids grow into the healthiest adults they can be—while still allowing them to be kids.

Ready to Go!

Ready to Go!
Author: Anne Giulieri
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Board books
ISBN: 9781438076270