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The bane of Alison Shandling's existence is Harry Roth.  He's obnoxious and rude, and always taunts her or makes comments about her autistic twin brother.  Alison attempts to ignore him, but since she sees him at school and at synagogue, it's hard to avoid him.  Then, Harry is injured in a diving accident and winds up in a wheelchair.  Now Harry feels what it's like to be vulnerable, and Alison finds herself inexplicably drawn to him.  She's initially cautious, but these unlikely companions begin to understand each other, and their relationship grows first into a friendship and then into something more.

I won't let it happen to me is this attitude most people have regarding dangerous relationships.  People don't understand that no one chooses to be in one, and it usually happens without anyone realizing it.  This video clearly identifies the warning signs that you are in a dangerous relationship, whether it be with a parent, sibling, peer or significant other.  It gives you procedures you can take to avoid getting into a dangerous relationship, to get out of one or to help a friend get out.  Learn how to take the necessary steps to keep a dangerous relationship from ruining your life and ruining your dreams.

It seems that these days, there are no good mothers for a variety of reasons.  If you go to work, you're inattentive to your kids, and if you stay home with them, you're overbearing.  If you punish them, they will end up with psychological problems, and if you let them run loose, they will be involved with drugs by the time they reach middle school.  It's not surprising that many women consider themselves at one time or another as bad mothers.  This book is written with extraordinary frankness and it gives very funny and useful advice throughout.  How do you handle it when your daughter dresses up inappropriately for Halloween?  In this cynical, direct and very intuitive narrative on modern motherhood, the author says it's time for women to get over it and get on with life.

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This book is a comprehensive collection of practical behavior management ideas, examples, strategies and resources. It gives you ideas on how to do the following:

• create a caring, safe and positive environment
• implement proactive preventive strategies
• develop positive relationships
• set some clear guidelines of behavior and appropriate consequences
• develop effective procedures, roles, and responsibilities for implementing a behavior management plan
• develop the resources to support a behavior management system
• set up rescue and support services for students and staff
• review, reflect and plan for improvement

This innovative book offers clear-cut instruction for a disciplined, but considerate way to raise children, and introduces new communication methods that change the manner in which parents speak with and listen to their children. Dr. Ginotts inventive approach to parenting has influenced a generation of experts in the field, and now the techniques can work for you, as well. In this revised edition, Dr. Alice Ginott, clinical psychologist and wife of the late Haim Ginott, and family relationship specialist Dr. H. Wallace Goddard bring this top-selling book into the current day, while continuing with the books positive message. It is based on the premise that parenting is a skill that can be learned. This invaluable resource will show you how to discipline without threats, bribes, sarcasm, and punishment, criticize without demeaning, praise without judging, express anger without hurting, acknowledge rather than argue with children's feelings, perceptions, and opinions, and finally, respond so that children will learn to trust and develop self-confidence.

Bobby's Story is about courage and the power inside all of us.  The story is based on unpleasant events that occurred many years ago in the author's own life.  The character, Bobby, is constantly reminded of his grandfather's powerful words of life, "Wrong is wrong - no matter how many people do it, and that it only takes one person to speak out for what is right - The Power of One!"  After Bobby's parents lose everything, including their jobs, their home, and their dreams, his family is forced to leave all their family and friends behind.  They move to the city with hopes of finding jobs and starting over.  For Bobby, the struggle is about acceptance, not only from his new friends, but his new life.  He needs to reach inside himself to find the inner strength necessary to make new friends, live in poverty, and stand up to the red-haired bully.

This video will help young people understand how to create and sustain good relationships.  By watching the program, they'll learn what it takes to build and maintain a happy and healthy relationship.  The emphasis is on the importance of trust, honesty, communication, friendship, respect, consideration, support, intimacy and acceptance.   An interesting, open-forum discussion features 10 diverse young adults who share their own experiences with relationships.  Experts in the fields of psychology and social work complement the young people's comments by sharing the facts on what builds long-term successful relationships.  A host provides additional factual information where necessary, and leads viewers through the program as well as the forum.   It is an excellent program for generating discussion, focusing on character and developing relevant social skills.

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms. Topics covered in this book include:  Class rules, working together, good decisions, communicating, respect, honesty, the environment, bullying and more. 

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include: friendship, fair play, goals, worrying, values, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, time management and more.

This practical series will help students to deal with all the non-academic issues that can affect academic success.  Based on the latest research and classroom studies, these books provide motivating and appropriate reproducible activities in a ready-to-use format that teachers will appreciate.  Each topic area is treated with an activity that includes lesson with answers, discussion questions, additional activities, student work page and useful background activity.  The teacher's section includes a method overview, setting up the class environment, collaborative learning, differentiating instruction, assessment indicators and assessment forms.  Topics covered in this book include:  Roles, responsibility, goals, stress, stereotypes, tolerance, bullying, conflict resolution, peer pressure and more.

Child Behavior has become classic reading for parents and professionals around the world since it was first published.  This authoritative guide offers the basics of child development, addressing exactly how children's bodies can affect their behavior.  The authors not only discuss what to do to treat specific behavior problems but actually advise parents on how, in many instances, they can prevent many common and more serious problems.

In this book, the author will help you understand how your child interacts with the world.  She begins with the basis that every child has their own dominant sensory interface with the world.  A child may be very sensitive to touch, sound, sight, and a few are uncommonly sensitive to all external stimuli, especially taste and smell.  Using this principal sensitivity affects how your child will learn, behave, and communicate from the day they are born.  By knowing what your particular dominant sense is, and then determining your child's dominant sense, you will be able to find a common ground and create a closer relationship to become much closer to your child.  You can use this book to take a comprehensive sensory test to determine your child's and your own dominant sense.  It will also help you to understand how sensory overload affects them from infancy to age five.  Learn how and why your child's sensory personality will shape the way they instinctively react to new experiences and help your child thrive in the outside world!

This book contains forty-one black and white photographs showing children in many settings and moods. The photos are accompanied by words/phrases in Spanish and English that describe those moods. The multicultural collection of faces are fascinating to observe, and can be used to reassure children that, no matter the color of their skin, they are all part of the human race.  This help to extend their understanding of the differences and sameness of people.

For many different reasons, families change over time. Sometimes a baby is born, or an adult gets married, or maybe a child gets a new foster parent or a new adopted mom or dad. Children needs to know that if this happens, it?s not their fault. They need to understand that they should still value and love their birth family as well as their new foster family. Using straightforward words and full color, supportive illustrations, this book offers hope for children facing or experiencing change. It also includes resources and information for birth parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.

Some girls can find it very difficult to forgive and forget when relationship hurts are deep and friendships fractured. Girl Grudges:  Learning How to Forgive and Live, was written by two experts with many years of experience, and has helped to address deep-seated conflicts that cause ongoing pain for everyone. This book offers a variety of practical and educational activities to help girls in middle and high school either one-on-one or in groups.  It is based on the ERA model (Educate, Relate, and Integrate) that first exposes girls to new information, and then helps them apply this to their own situations.  Finally, it encourages internalization of healthier relationship alternatives.

This CD is the companion to the Conscious Discipline Program . "It Starts In The Heart" is a wonderful collection of 19 songs, 3 of which are in both English and Spanish. It uses music and movement activities to promote caring connections, build a school family, increase emotional intelligence, develop social skills and strengthen self-esteem.  The CD also includes bonus lyrics and movement sheets.

A Book for Children in Foster Care
It is very important for kids have a safe place to live and play.  For some kids, this means living with foster parents.  With simple words and colorful illustrations, this book explains why some kids have to move to foster homes, what foster parents do, and ways kids might feel during foster care.  Many children believe that they were put in foster care because they did something wrong.  This book makes them understand that the troubles in their lives are not their fault.   The emphasis throughout the book is one of hope and support.   It also includes resources and information for parents, foster parents, social workers, counselors, and teachers.

Science tells us the brain is governed by the heart.  Kindness Counts does much more than teach social skills and manners!  It's all about helping adults and children feel safe, connected and valued. It's the building block of all learning! With this foundation in place, children can thrive academically and socially. 17 delighted songs by Dr. Becky Bailey and Mr. AL, plus a movement guide!

This is the resource you need to solve your child's friendship problems and boost their social competence.  Nobody Likes Me shows how to teach your child the 25 most essential friendship building skills kids need to find, make, and keep friends, as well as survive that social pressure from peers.  You'll be able to help your child make more friends or keep the ones they have, and help your child to handle those play dates, sleepovers, being shy, too sensitive, too competitive, or having a bad reputation.

Parents should understand that their daughters face unique challenges growing up, and need to help their girls mature and succeed in this world. This book provides parents with solid guidelines, given in a distinct and simple to read format for helping them raise their daughters. The author, who is a psychologist and family therapist, provides her own unique experiences as a mother, along with knowledge acquired from many years of professional experience of counseling families. She explains the important aspects of a young woman's development and details ways for parents to create a bond with them. Also included in this book are conversations about social conditioning, family dynamics, peer relationships, communication styles, self-esteem, and education issues appropriate to the stages in a girl's life. From a young child to a teen and then to young woman, this resource will show parents how to understand their daughters better, how to promote their special abilities and help them live better lives.

Signs of unhealthy relationships include manipulation, control, possessiveness, insecurity, depression, lying, dependency, anger, uneven effort, poor communication, blame and baggage.  This educational video helps young people recognize the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships.  The program centers on a discussion featuring 10 diverse young adults who share their own experiences with unhealthy relationships.  Experts in the fields of psychology and social work supplement the young people's testimony by describing concrete warning signs that identify if a relationship is in trouble, and by offering advice on handling failing relationships.  A host provides additional factual information where necessary, and leads viewers through the program as well as the forum.  This informative and practical program helps young people learn the difference between what is healthy in relationships and what is not. This video is part of the Relationships Video Series.

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 1-2, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 3-4, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Teaching values education has always been a part of learning, often taking place indirectly during the school day.  Respect, Grades 5-6, takes a focused approach to values instruction, taking up current pedagogy, the most up-to-date research, and effective conflict resolution models.  The reproducible activities help students to recognize and internalize the core values practiced in their school and community.  Children learn the difference between "inner power" and "power over" as they work to develop a personal value framework that incorporates respect for themselves and others.

Each of these six unique board game has players discuss the solutions to socially challenging situations.  These are no correct or incorrect answers.  Together the group decides upon the best action encouraging all players to communicate, listen and participate in the game.

Trudy Ludwig delivers a story about real kids and real situations occurring everyday.  In this book, Charlie, Jack's friend, has learned that one magic word can get him out of almost any jam.  If you get caught, just say you're sorry.  Even though it makes Jack feel bad, Charlie's flip and insincere apologies get by most people until Charlie ruins a classmate's science fair project and Jack stands by to watch.  Jack and Charlie learn their lesson when a teacher makes them prove their apology by actually doing something.  The book is great for motivating children to think the sincerity of their words when making apologies or in their interactions with friends; but it also encourages adults to keep kids accountable for the authenticity of their words.

Inspired by Lexie Potamkin's series of books - What is Spirit?, What is Peace? and What is Love? she offers this stylish bag.   The Messages from the Heart series of books are a labor of her love and a gift to humanity.  This bag can be used anywhere, the beach, or as an eco-friendly shopping bag.

Inspired by Lexie Potamkin's series of books - What is Spirit?, What is Peace? and What is Love? she offers this stylish cap.  The Messages to the Heart series are a labor of her love and a gift to humanity.  This cap can be worn by a child or adult.  One size fits all.

This book has been entirely updated, adding the latest information on medications, ADHD, and uses a caring approach to deal with all aspects of childhood behavioral disorders.  It is the respected book on parenting those difficult children that are hard to raise, and contains new sections on ADHD and the latest medications for childhood disorders.   Dr. Stanley Turecki is a highly respected expert on children and discipline, and was also the father of a difficult child at one time.   He offers compassionate and useful information to parents of these type of children.  Using his experience with many families in the highly successful Difficult Children Program that he created for Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, his approach, one step at a time, shows you how to use a ten-point test to identify your child's temperament.  You will be able to isolate specific difficulties and learn to handle common, but sometimes unmanageable situations expertly and calmly.

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This book takes a sensible, monthly tour of the first year of daddy's new life. In this revised, expanded edition for today's dad, the author presents timely and appropriate subjects from pre-natal care through year one of being a dad.  He covers topics including detecting an infant's illnesses, evaluating a baby's development, and learning proper ways to play with the newest family member.  The author uses his fathering background and medical knowledge to cover everything, ranging from the tasks of changing a diaper, feeding your baby, packing a diaper bag to choosing the right babysitter.  He informs you on many subjects, including: Important physical, emotional, health, and developmental milestones for your baby, Identifying and coping the feelings often experienced by new dads, Maintaining a healthy relationship with your partner through your new experiences, and much more!

This book is an updated edition, filled with stories, songs, activities, recipes, and much more.  Everything was designed for dad to call his own, including text by a variety of authors, such as Bill Cosby, Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, and illustrations from the artists Jessie Wilcox Smith and Kate Greenway.  This book offers a lot of great reading time for dad and his children, and the activities also include things like making sandcastles, playing identification games, funny riddles and jokes.   There are even some enjoyable recipes to try with the kids in the kitchen, like sloppy joes, macaroni and cheese, and chicken finger.   Overall, it's a great book that dads and kids will spend lots of quality time together with.

Using these 162 engaging group activities, children learn to find friends, get along with others, and respect each other's feelings and differences.  Every activity uses easily-accessible materials and incorporates the joy of music, movement, puppet-making, playdough fun, gardening and more.  Children will learn some great skills, including: Cooperation, Gentleness, Consideration of Others, Problem Solving, Generosity, and Recognition of Emotions.  This is a great book for fostering sharing and caring.

The best way for young children to learn is by doing, and that includes learning values.  The Values Book is packed with easy activities, ideas, and projects that will help children learn values and build character, both individually and in groups.  Each chapter addresses one of 16 different values, including understanding, patience and tolerance.  After defining the value, each chapter begins with questions to help adults clarify what that value means to them.  This is the perfect book to introduce and strengthen the teaching of values in any early childhood classroom or home.

What is Love? It's a question as vast as the universe, and as personal and intimate as  a sensuous kiss or a touch of a child.  From the dawn of humanity, the greatest minds and those form the humblest of origins have taken on the challenge of finding an answer.  What is Love? Messages from the Heart examines the experience of love through the thoughts of a diverse array of people through the ages.

Spirit is something that we all have in common, but experience in different ways.  This beautiful book contains a unique collection of quotes and inspirational stories about Spirit from many public figures, including Donald Trump, Tommy Lasorda, Gloria Steinem, Roma Downey, and Jimmy Carter, just to name a few.  It also includes vibrant full-color artwork by internationally acclaimed artist Peter Max.

Managing a busy life with children and a job can be very difficult, but also very satisfying and rewarding.  This book will show you how to deal with this lifestyle.  The author is a woman who is loves her kids and career, and she shows you examples of how actual people, some famous and some you'll meet for the first time in the book, are able to manage their lives.  By using her background as a mom, wife, writer and college professor, she helps families and couples find the way to enjoy life together and have a purpose.  By using good humor, imaginative ideas, insight and encouragement, Working Families will help you navigate through a sea of demands with the confidence you need to change the world, along with your children.