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SmartHelp for Good ‘n’ Angry Kids provides the reader with an innovative tool for determining a child’s individual learning strengths, and for pairing this information with specific, carefully crafted activities that teach the child about anger and its appropriate...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2009-09-17
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The Novartis Foundation Series is a popular collection of the proceedings from Novartis Foundation Symposia, in which groups of leading scientists from a range of topics across biology, chemistry and medicine assembled to present papers and discuss results.The Novartis...
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Wiley
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2009-09-16
Collection :
Novartis Foundation Symposia
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Nearly 90% of all brain growth occurs in the first five years of life. Parents can capitalize on this impressionable time by improving and varying the sights, sounds, and smells in a child's immediate surroundings. With this eminently practical guide in hand, parents...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-07-21
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Applying to college can be a stressful process, and it's never too early in high school for students to start thinking about what will make their application stand out from the crowd.An easy-to-read handbook for freshmen and seniors alike,Applying to College will help...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-06-17
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Every parent wants to raise a bright, happy, and moral child, but until Stanley Greenspan investigated the building blocks of cognitive, social, emotional, and moral development, no one could show parents how and when these qualities begin. In this book Dr. Greenspan,...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-06-16
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In Children and Pictures , Richard P. Jolley critiques both the historical and contemporary studies conducted in the field of children’s making and understanding of pictures.
Some highlights of Children and Pictures are:
What ...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-05-13
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We all dream of having children who can, for lack of a better way to say it, get on with it and do well in life. A curiosity about life and a love of learning can be the attributes that ensure this goal. How can parents foster this kind of spirit in their...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-30
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You're an independent career woman suddenly dropped into the chaos of Babyville. You have a newborn to care for, three months (if you're lucky) of unstructured time to fill, a work decision to make (to go back full-time? part-time? job share?), childcare to acquire, and...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-29
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The teasing, squabbling, competition, and ferocious fights of brothers and sisters can drive any parent to frantic desperation. At the same time, Drs. Brazelton and Sparrow point out, siblings are learning from one another and deep, close relationships are forming that...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-29
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Critically ill and unlikely to survive. A recent Harvard University study on pediatric end-of-life care has shown that the medical community is failing such children and their families. Indeed, in their effort to be ever-hopeful and cure-oriented in the face of a...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Finally a comprehensive guide has arrived for frustrated parents who have trouble feeding their children. Dr. Macht, a respected educational psychologist, has originated strategies that have achieved remarkable results in getting children to eat right. Dr. Macht cuts to...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Boys need encouragement and praise to develop healthy self esteem, but they can also feel swamped and suffocated by what they see as constant commentary on their every move-and as a result they can be inclined to act out. How can parents strike the right balance between...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-28
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They may look sweet and compliant, but these days children aged between 8 and 12 -- "tweens" -- are fast emerging as a force to be reckoned with. Gaining in confidence, expecting more freedom, and increasingly targeted commercially, they present many new and...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-28
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Beyond childcare theories and early childhood gurus, here is how children have actually been raised in America over the last four centuries. From wet nurses and Southern mammys, settlement houses and orphan trains, to rigid British nannies, foster care, and the modern...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-28
ePub
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Undertaken at orphanages in Russia, this study tests the role of early social and emotion experience in the development of children. Children were exposed to either multiple caregivers who performed routine duties in a perfunctory manner with minimal interaction or...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-27
Collection :
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
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The kids are sick but the boss needs the presentation on her desk by ten.The parent-child kindergarten brunch can't be missed, yet the business meeting beckons. When the only thing she knows for sure is that her day will bring a new set of challenges and priorities to...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-27
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In Neurology of Autism, Mary Coleman, Catalina Betancur, G. Robert DeLong, Christopher Gillberg, Yoshiko Nomura, Lorenzo Pavone, Martin Ruggieri, and Michele Zappella use the tools of neurological analysis to address a number of the major questions that have arisen in...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2009-04-23
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Adolescence is often thought of as a period during which parent–child interactions can be relatively stressed and conflictual. There are individual differences in this regard, however, with only a modest percent of youth experiencing extremely conflictual relationships...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-04-20
Collection :
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
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One of the most important steps that parents can take to prevent childhood obesity or simply to get their children to a healthier weight is to teach them good eating habits. Establishing such habits at an early age will contribute to lifelong health. Indeed, when kids...
Editeur :
Balance
Parution :
2009-04-20
ePub
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