365 Games Smart Toddlers Play

Author: Sheila Ellison
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402250452
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 443

Book Description
365 Games Smart Toddlers Play will help you make the best of the time you and your toddler share, every day of the year. Each day with your toddler brings new experiences for them and new opportunities for you to teach, share and grow closer to each other. Bestselling parenting author Sheila Ellison fills each page with fun, practical ways to create and enhance those special everyday moments. Perfect for: Parents Grandparents Child-care providers Baby-sitters Praise for the 365 series: "Parents struggling to discover new playtime ideas can finally relax. Now there is a solution to every day of the year." —Parenting Magazine "Imaginative ways to raise healthy, happy families." —Healthy Kids

365 Games Smart Babies Play

Author: Sheila Ellison
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402250703
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
"A marvelously simple, clear and practical guide to parenting in the first days, months and years!"—Diana Huss Green, Parents' Choice "Wonderful ways to help parents and babies enrich each other's lives."—Sesame Street Parents Each day with your baby brings new moments of caring, teaching, holding and growing through baby's first experiences. Filled with magical ways to create and enhance those special everyday moments, 365 Games Smart Babies Play will help you celebrate each once-in-a-lifetime opportunity you and your baby share. Illustrated by children.

Serving Teen Parents

Author: Ellin Klor
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1598846949
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
A comprehensive guide to working with teen parents and their children that provides practical program ideas for successful school and public library program development, implementation, and evaluation. Teen parents and their children represent an underserved, high-need population in many communities. Libraries have the potential to significantly influence the quality of life for teen parent families by providing free access to information and resources, developing specific programs, and serving as a safe, public learning environment. Serving Teen Parents: From Literacy to Life Skills helps library staff support teen parents as their children's first teachers, positively affecting two generations at once. The authors explain how to successfully communicate with this group and build upon their competencies and strengths. They offer best practices, professional anecdotes, and step-by-step direction on connecting with teen parents, collaborating with community partners, locating funding options, and implementing successful programs. This invaluable guide is the most comprehensive resource currently available that directly addresses the needs of librarians serving the teen-parent demographic.

Working Mother

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Languages : en
Pages : 142

Book Description
The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.

365 Manners Kids Should Know

Author: Sheryl Eberly
Publisher: Harmony
ISBN: 0307888258
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
If you’ve ever cringed at the sight of your ten-year-old waltzing through the neighbor’s front door without an invitation, or struggled to teach your teenager proper “netiquette” for navigating the complicated world of social networks, you know the importance of teaching kids that manners matter. Sheryl Eberly’s bestselling 365 Manners Kids Should Know gives clever and insightful advice for the myriad situations where consideration counts, but is sometimes forgotten. This new edition incorporates tips for every aspect of digital communication into her straight-forward format. Using a smart one-manner-a-day organization, parents, grandparents, and teachers alike can find practical ways to teach essential manners like: - When and where it’s appropriate to text - How to write a thank-you note - The proper way to handle an online bully - How to behave at events like birthday parties, weddings,and religious services Full of role-playing exercises, games, and other activities that adults can do with children, 365 Manners Kids Should Know explains not only what manners to teach, but also how—and at what ages—to present them.

365 Smart Afterschool Activities

Author: Sheila Ellison
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402250282
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 425

Book Description
From making a monster mask to going on a bike photo safari, 365 Smart Afterschool Activities will let kids' imaginations soar with terrifically fun things to do during those valuable afterschool hours and beyond. 365 Smart Afterschool Activities is perfect for parents, teachers, grandparents, babysitters and youth leaders. Illustrated by children, a terrific variety of adventures await you, including activities for: • Crafts • Dance and movement • Drama • Games • Hobbies • Nature • Self-Esteem • Writing "Engaging and fun-filled activities that are sure to keep kids playing, imagining and creating all year long!"—Brenda Pilson, Creative Classroom magazine

The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Play Groups

Author: Marian Edelman Borden
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1436291348
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 195

Book Description
Make the most out of precious playtime! For busy parents-and children-The Pocket Idiot's GuideTM to Play Groups offers suggestions and advice on forming and organizing play groups and keeping them going. This book covers such issues as setting up rules for caregiver and parent attendance, child anxieties, uncooperative parents, and much more. *First information-packed guide on the market *Features great ideas for indoor and outdoor activities for play groups of various sizes

365 Games Toddlers Play

Author: Sheila Ellison
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 9781402201769
Category : Child development
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Shares hundreds of ideas on how to play, grow, and bond with a toddler, in aollection of craft, home decoration, and floor-time activity ideas forarents and grandparents.

Resourcing Early Learners

Author: Sue Nichols
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415897599
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's waiting rooms and supermarkets. It also investigates the ways in which governments and corporations are transforming early childhood education and creating an early learning industry.

The Toddler's Busy Book

Author: Trish Kuffner
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 1442404868
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 480

Book Description
Fun and creative activities to stimulate your toddler every day of the year The Toddler's Busy Book contains 365 screen-free activities for one-and-a-half- to three-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and daycare providers how to: Prevent boredom during the longest stretches of rainy days with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects. Stimulate your child's natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities. Encourage your child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with fun music, food, water, and outdoor activities. Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities. Keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or crosstown errands. The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching toddlers.