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How to Have Happy Children
We're constantly bombarded with advice - and criticism - on how to be good parents. From the press, social media and online influencers right through to our friends and family, it seems everyone has an opinion on what is the right - and wrong - way to raise a child. Bottom line is, it's not easy. But whilst our little ones aren't born with a manual, this pocket book is just the one you need. How to Have Happy Children combines up-to-date academic research and straight-forward, sensible advice into ten bite-sized chapters - the Ten Commandments of Parenting. The vision is simple: to raise children who are comfortable with who they are, and pleased with how they're bought up. The goal is simple: use these golden nuggets to empower your decision-making, and trust your own judgement.
The Island King
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Irony in the Mind's Life
"Represents an effort to examine certain psychological tensions, or "ironies" that develop and persist in our mental life form infancy though the adult years."--Back cover
Billy Winter - Into the Snow and Ice
Not many boys have to go in search of their missing father, but Billy Winter does. Billy steals aboard a cargo ship heading north to Alaska where his father was last seen. On the ship he is befriended by Sergeant Le Bulle, an off-duty Alaskan state trooper. In Alaska they set off on sleds pulled by huskies and meet Amka, an Inuit woman who is searching for her son who has also gone missing. The three decide to work together to solve the mystery of the missing men. But why is someone trying to kill them all? And why do Sergeant Le Bulle and Amka abandon Billy? Very few could survive alone in Alaska but Billy Winter must. This is his story.
Secular Days, Sacred Moments
No writer or public intellectual of our era has been as sensitive to the role of faith in the lives of ordinary Americans as Robert Coles. Though not religious in the conventional sense, Coles is unparalleled in his astute understanding and respect for the relationship between secular life and sacredness, which cuts across his large body of work. Drawing inspiration from figures like Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, Coles’s extensive writings explore the tug of war between faith and doubt. As Coles himself admits, the “back-and-forthness between faith and doubt is the story of my life.” These thirty-one thought-provoking essays are drawn from Coles’s weekly column i...
In God's House
Drawings and comments by various poor, sick, abandoned, or abused children present their views of God and where God lives.
Children's Reading Choices
Children's Reading Choices discusses the reading habits of children aged between 10 and 14. The book reports the findings of the Children's Reading Choices project - conducted by the authors from the University of Nottingham and the largest national survey of children's reading choices since the 1970s. The book includes reports and discussion on: * girls' and boys' reading preferences and the differences between their reading habits * the place of series books, teenage magazines and comics in children's reading * the most popular authors and titles at different ages * purchasing habits and library use.
EBOOK: Developing Leadership: Creating the Schools of Tomorrow
What is our best present understandingof good school leadership? How do I lead my school to make itrelevant to students of the 21st century? The idea for this book grew out of aninternational conference organized by theNational College for School Leadership,An International Future: learning frombest practice worldwide, which exploredinnovative and significant aspects ofeducational leadership and brought together internationalcolleagues to generate new understandings. The conference proved adynamic forum for debate for researchers, academics, policy-makersand practitioners. It was clear at the conference that there was aconsensus of understanding around certain key themes that crossednational...
The Middle Americans
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The Political Life of Children
Children learn not only their language and religion and morality but their politics as their parents' knees. In analyzing the influence on children of family, religion, culture, and a dozen other factors, Dr. Coles interviews children in Quebec, Cambodia, Brazil, South Africa and other places. 16-page color insert.
