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This practical, hands-on guide from the No. 1 homeschooling Web site gives readers everything they need to create a customized education plan that works with children's unique intelligence and learning style. Veteran homeschoolers and interested newcomers alike can benefit. (July)
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Discover practical strategies to make reading aloud a meaningful family ritual.
The stories we read--and the conversations we have about them--help shape family traditions, create lifelong memories, and become part of our legacy. Reading aloud not only has the power to change a family--it has the power to change the world.
But we all know that connecting deeply with our families can be difficult in our busy, technology-driven society. Reading...
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2018.
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A best-selling expert on education shows how to make the school system work for your child. How many parents have a child struggling in school? The answer: a great many. This book is an informed, practical resource for such parents. As the author of the classic book on home-schooling, The Well-Trained Mind, Susan Wise Bauer knows how children learn and how schools work. Her advice here is comprehensive and anecdotal, including material drawn from...
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Beyond Piggy Banks is written for you: the loving, responsible and overworked parents of young children. It takes the stress and mystery out of finance, and focuses on the basic fundamentals elementary children should understand so they can make smart decisions as they grow. This usable, light hearted, real-world guide provides parents with the specific tools and step-by-step lessons needed to teach their child. The lessons provided are easy to teach...
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Simply Unhurried
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[2024]
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"Are you a boy mom struggling to understand how to raise your son in a world that seems to be increasingly hostile toward men? Raising boys in the current cultural climate is challenging. Boys are often misunderstood and misdiagnosed when they are simply doing what their Creator wired them to do. As moms of boys, we can struggle to understand them and respond in a way that will encourage our boys toward the kind of manhood to which God calls them....
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Publishers Weekly bestseller · A joyful and accessible homeschool guide to making learning a part of everyday life
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture...
Parents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture...
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A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as technology pulls in the other direction.
A miraculous alchemy occurs when one person reads to another, transforming the simple stuff of a book, a voice, and a bit of time into complex and powerful fuel for the heart, brain, and imagination. Grounded in the latest neuroscience...
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Charlotte Mason was a late nineteenth-century British educator whose ideas were far ahead of her time. She believed that children are born persons worthy of respect, rather than blank slates, and that it was better to feed their growing minds with living literature and vital ideas and knowledge, rather than dry facts and knowledge filtered and pre-digested by the teacher. Her method of education, still used by some private schools and many homeschooling...
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Cambridge University Press
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2019.
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"Are you raising your child bilingually, or planning to do so in the future, but are unsure how to proceed? Using a question-and-answer format, this practical and reassuring guide will enable you to make informed decisions about how to raise your child with two or more languages. To grow up bilingually is a necessity or an opportunity for more children today than ever before. However, parents are frequently uncertain about what to do, or even fear...
16) Baby read-aloud basics: fun and interactive ways to help your little one discover the world of words
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AMACOM
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c2006
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English
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¿Por qué algunos padres y madres se sienten inseguros ante la responsabilidad de educar a sus hijos? ¿Tienen dudas sobre qué enseñarles, qué valores transmitir o qué pueden exigirles según su edad y grado de madurez? ¿O quizás creen que la sociedad espera de ellos que sean unos padres perfectos?
La psicóloga Mª Jesús Comellas se propone devolver la confianza a padres y madres y lo hace a partir de una tesis bien simple: educamos a cada...
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El libro aborda la relación entre la escuela y la familia en tanto instituciones sociales que comparten la misión de acompañar y generar aprendizajes en las nuevas generaciones. Los sujetos de la educación están en la intersección de ambas: son los hijos/as para una, y alumnos/as para la otra.
Hasta hace pocos años, las familias contaban con elementos de solidez propios, que les permitían acompañar a sus hijos a través de la escolaridad....
19) Daddy Loves You
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Clint Arthur wrote and illustrated "Daddy Loves You" as a Christmas present for his 2-year-old daughter. It went on to become a cherished staple of their nightly bedtime-story-reading sessions for years, along with Goodnight Moon, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Gorilla, and others of the genre.
He wrote the book because, as a single father, Clint wanted his daughter to know that his love for her was constant, even if he couldn't be with her...
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With so many discussions and theories on reading and how children learn to read, it can be very confusing for parents to know the best way to get their kids to read. In Raising a Reader, Bonnie Schwartz lays out simple, researched and practice proven approaches that a parent can do to promote literacy in the home and encourage children to explore the great adventures to be found in books. The first step in fostering literacy and good reading strategies...
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