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Cover of How to grab the coffee cup. The statistical reasoning in everyday life
by Simone Di Zio
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015

In today’s society, we are inundated by data, but the lack of familiarity with the statistical reasoning is widespread and produces an infinite number of wrong choices. Sometimes with minor impact, sometimes with serious consequences for our health or public safety. Yet to think statistically does...
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Helping Parents Understand Schools

A Different Perspective on Education and Schooling in America

by Lyndon G. Furst
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom. Parents, even relatively young parents, perceive that public schools are just like when they attended. This faulty perception is held by a large portion of the general public. In...
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by Alison Griffith, Dorothy Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2005

Griffith and Smith explore the innumerable, hidden, seemingly mundane tasks like getting kids ready for school, helping with homework, or serving on the PTA can all have profound effects on what occurs within school. Based on longitudinal interviews with mothers of school-age children, this book exposes...
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Breaking Through

Using Educational Technology for Children with Special Needs

by Barbara Albers Hill
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

While one-on-one therapy is certainly beneficial, for some children, the process of developing social skills, manual dexterity, and educational competency presents much more of a challenge. Fortunately, the introduction of new and easy-to-use technological devices has created a quiet revolution in...
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The End of American Childhood

A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child

by Paula S. Fass
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016

The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed...
Cover of Discipline Children: How to Discipline Children Positively and Help Them Develop Self-Control, Resilience and More
by Joseph R. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018

Have you wondered if you're making the right decisions when it comes to raising your child? Over the last years, there has been a lot of confusion about the role of boys and girls in our society. It's easy to see why parents are left with lots of unanswered questions when they're raising their...
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by Allen Appel, Sherry Conway Appel
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

We can never thank our fathers enough for the special moments that make us cherish our childhood memories. It's those little things - fixing toys, barbecuing the perfect burger, applying a thousand band-aids - that count for so much and that we sometimes take for granted. Illustrated throughout...
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If You Had Controlling Parents

How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World

by Dan Neuharth
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009

Do you sometimes feel as if you are living your life to please others? Do you give other people the benefit of the doubt but second-guess yourself? Do you struggle with perfectionism, anxiety, lack of confidence, emotional emptiness, or eating disorders? In your intimate relationships, have you found...
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by Bob Roth
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017

Welcome to college life. Scott and Jackie use their campus radio show to talk about every aspect of life during the college years. Doug, Scotts longtime friend, narrates this storyone that every current, future, and past student will appreciate. Although humorous stories and events punctuate each...
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How to Deal with 21St Century American Women

Co-Creating a Successful Relationship

by Frosty Wooldrige
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2013

How to Deal with 21st Century American Women teaches men from all walks of life how to understand and adapt to the evolving male-female paradigm shift occurring at every level of American society. Today, women run companies, become school principles, military generals, police chiefs, corporation CEOs...
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Our Mothers, Ourselves

How Understanding Your Mother's Influence Can Set You on a Path to a Better Life

by Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015

In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth. No one has influenced the person you are today like your mother. The way she handled your needs as a child has...
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When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us

Letting Go of Their Problems, Loving Them Anyway,

by Jane Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2008

How do today's parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our twenty- and even thirty-somethings who can't seem to grow up? How can we help our depressed, dependent, or addicted adult children, the ones who can't get their lives started, who are just...
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by Julian V. Crosby Sr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016

What inspired me to begin writing poems? I grew up in a place called the hill district in Pittsburgh, PA. It wasnt normal and manly to express his true feelings, out of fear of being put down or run over. So I would write mine down on paper and start saving them from 1989 up until this date in time....
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For Mothers of Difficult Daughters

How to Enrich and Repair the Relationship in Adulthood

by Charney Herst
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011

The first mother-daughter book for mothers, featuring a new Afterword and a Reading Group Discussion Guide ¸ Do you long for a better relationship with your daughter? ¸ Do you occasionally feel as though you have failed as a mother? ¸ Do you blame yourself because your relationship with...
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