Calm Down Time

• Author : Elizabeth Verdick
• Publisher : Free Spirit Publishing
• Release : 01 May 2010

Every parent, caregiver—and toddler—knows the misery that comes with meltdowns and temper tantrums. Through rhythmic text and warm illustrations, this gentle, reassuring book offers toddlers simple tools to release strong feelings, express them, and calm themselves down. Children learn to use their calm-down place—a quiet space where they can cry, ask for a hug, sing to themselves, be rocked in a grown-up’s arms, talk about feelings, and breathe: “One, two, three . . . I’m calm as can

• Author : Sheila Wagner
• Publisher : Future Horizons
• Release : 07 July 1999

Maximize your child or student's potential with a child-centered education program! Winner of the Autism Society of America's Literary Work of the Year Award, this first book in Sheila Wagner's Inclusive Programming series provides an inclusion program for students with autism spectrum disorders. Teachers, parents, and students alike will benefit from Sheila's insight and presentation as she outlines both theories and applications of inclusive programming for elementary school students. Her engaging and readable style, coupled with her extensive knowledge and

• Author : Carolyn Webster-Stratton
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 01 October 1999

This book is for teachers of children aged four-eight years. It shows how teachers can collaborate with parents in addressing children's educational and emotional needs. The author presents a variety of classroom management strategies, which teachers can choose from to strengthen children's social and academic competence. She believes that children's emotional literacy is as important as academic literacy. The book shows how teachers can set up individualized programmes which address the special social and emotional needs of children at particular

• Author : Daniel L. Daly, Ph.D.,Daniel L. Daly,Michael Sterba
• Publisher : Boys Town Press
• Release : 07 July 2022

Angry, aggressive, or violent youth threaten the well-being of themselves, other children, and caregivers in any setting. They may need medicztion and therapy to treat their problems, but they also must learn how to control negative thoughts and emotions without turning to aggressive behaviour. Professionals will learn how to build good relationships with youth and teach them pro-social behaviour. Also offered are sample treatment plans to address both proactive and reactive aggression in youth and guidelines on how to promote

• Author : Connie Schnoes, Ph.D.
• Publisher : Boys Town Press
• Release : 23 January 2018

Children get angy for many different reasons. Exhausted parents often try to avoid anything that might trigger their anger. Author Dr. Connie Schnoes, however, tells parents not to shield children from situations that make them angry. Instead, all children must learn that feeling angry sometimes is normal and there are appropriate ways to control and express anger without hurting themselves or others.

• Author : Tedd Judd
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 06 December 2012

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of interventions for emotional and behavioral problems following all types of brain illnesses and injuries in adults. It is a unique guide to different settings, families, cultures, illnesses and levels of severity. It takes neuropsychotherapy outside the clinic to the real life situations and dilemmas of people with brain illnesses. It contains case studies, summaries of major techniques and principles in frequent tables which can serve as clinical guides.

• Author : Emma Jenner
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 15 July 2014

The former star of Take Home Nanny outlines holistic, guilt-free approaches to parenting children ages 7 and under, explaining how to assess a child from an objective standpoint that empowers parents and corrects habit-based negative behaviors.

• Author : Robert Bruce Newman,Ruth L. Miller, Ph.D.
• Publisher : North Atlantic Books
• Release : 12 December 2006

With disease statistics rising and health-care costs soaring, Calm Healing is a timely book indeed. Written in an accessible style, the book shows readers how to take an active role in their health by developing their innate skills for healing themselves and others. Part I presents a history of mind-body medicine, describing meditation methods across cultures and meditation research in the United States. Part II creates a new model of the human body based on a synthesis of disciplines, including

• Author : Heather Turgeon MFT,Julie Wright MFT
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 29 March 2022

An intimate glimpse inside a silent epidemic that is harming teens and how parents can help them reclaim the restorative power of sleep. If you could protect your teen from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their life, wouldn’t you? In Generation Sleepless, the authors of the classic guide to helping babies and young children develop healthy sleep habits The Happy Sleeper uncover one of the greatest threats to

• Author : Chynna Laird
• Publisher : Loving Healing Press
• Release : 07 July 2022

As a mom of a newly diagnosed child with Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), I relentlessly sought experts in SPD, as well as top nutritionists, biopsychologists, and neurologists. I figured that if I understood the major functions of the brain, and how it's supposed to take in, process and respond to stimulation, I could discover how SPD interferes with these functions. Understanding the whole picture - the combination of body, brain and nutritional health - led me to embrace the "Sensory

• Author : Robert Puff, Dr,Robert Puff,Elizabeth Cappelletti Lmft
• Publisher : eBookIt.com
• Release : 01 February 2013

Raising Healthy Children and Teenagers is one of the most important things that we will ever do in life. How they turn out, how life goes for them, whether they experience joy and happiness because of their inner strength and resources, or struggle with life because of inadequate coping skills is largely in our hands. In this book we discuss three main areas that are crucial to raising healthy children: how you treat your children, what you expose your children

• Author : Rich Allen,W.W. Wood
• Publisher : Corwin Press
• Release : 24 October 2012

Find customized playlists, sample lessons, and anecdotes from teachers across all subjects and grades who use music to manage mood, energy, and learning in this one-of-a-kind handbook.

• Author : Melissa Hood
• Publisher : Practical Inspiration Publishing
• Release : 27 April 2016

The Parent Practice team, led by Melissa Hood and Elaine Halligan, have been delivering positive parenting courses since 2004 designed to make families happier by giving parents skills and strategies that allow them not only to parent more effectively, but to enjoy their children more. Based on science and tested in families, Real Parenting for Real Kids provides realistic and workable solutions for real families living real lives in the 21st century. Melissa Hood draws on years of experience as a

• Author : R. Martin Reardon,Jack Leonard
• Publisher : IAP
• Release : 01 May 2020

Recent crises—whether policy-induced (e.g., family separation at the Mexico/U.S. border) or natural disaster-related (e.g., hurricanes in Florida and North Carolina and wildfires in California)—have galvanized the attention of the U.S. and international public on the plight of children who endure these traumatic events. The sheer enormity of such wrenching events tend to overshadow the trauma endured by many children whose everyday life circumstances fall short of affording them a safe, stable, and nurturing

• Author : Maggie Dent
• Publisher : Pennington Publications
• Release : 01 December 2018

It is easy in our fast-paced, competitive, consumer-driven world to forget that children are not mini-adults, projects to be managed or problems to be solved. This common-sense guide to parenting and caring for children under eight, reminds us that a child’s development cannot be rushed, or crudely measured again milestones. It takes an entire childhood to grow and there is no perfect when it comes to parenting. In her informed, heartfelt way, one of Australia’s favourite parenting authors