This down-to-earth guide provides tools for raising emotionally healthy boys. Included among the guidelines are attitudes adults should cultivate when interacting with boys as well as practical ways in which adults can enhance boys' mental and emotional health
This practical set of guidelines for improving the self-image of young girls features esteem "boosters" and "busters"--plus do's and don'ts for parents, teachers, and caretakers who help raise girls.
Based on the latest research from around the world, 21ST CENTURY BOYS provides parents, teachers and others with a clear pathway to bringing up boys. paperback 342 pages Extended Description
As a founder of UCLA's Affective Disorder Clinic and a co-author of a standard medical text, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison may be the foremost authority on manic-depressive illness. She is also one of its survivors. And it is this dual perspective -- as healer and healed -- that makes Jamison's memoir so lucid, learned, and profoundly affecting.
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You'd think a Miss America swimsuit winner would feel completely confident about her body, right? Not always! So I decided to write the book I wish I'd had as a teen and in college - an honest, funny, practical, medically accurate, totally reassuring guide to how women's bodies actually look, smell, feel, behave, and change. A highly visual book, its the first of its kind for women: filled with real information and real photographs of real bodies, to celebrate all our different shapes and sizes. Paperback 272 pages Extended Description
Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation rates has widened dramatically. While Emily is working hard at school and getting A's, her brother Justin is goofing off. Paperback 273 pages Extended Description
Current debates about boys and schooling in many Western nations are increasingly characterised by a sense of crisis as government reports, academic research and the day to day experiences of teachers combine to indicate that:.... Extended Description
Every teen can be a leader. That's because leadership is not just about taking the lead in big ways, but in everyday small things, too. The sessions in this book guide teens to explore what it means to be a leader, how to work with others, ethical decision-making, risk-taking, team-building, communication, creative thinking, and more. Extended Description
Even though anger is a regular part of every teen girl's world, there are appropriate ways students can respond to situations that make them angry. Deal With It is a program of 12 lessons that will help girls deal with their anger. Through activities that include reading and responding to stories about Maria, a fictional teen, students will learn to recognize their anger and find healthy ways to express their emotions. Paperback 173 pages
Illicit drugs are a major problem affecting many young people and their families – and no family is completely immune from the dangers of drug use.
Author, Tom McGill, knows the problem first hand as a professional drug counsellor, lecturer and consultant, but also as the parent who understands what it is like to have a child using drugs. Paperback 120pages
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