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Author
Publisher
Editorial OB STARE
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
¿Tu hijo no soporta el roce de las etiquetas de la ropa, tiene miedo al calor, sufre con el ruido ambiental o, por el contrario, no controla la fuerza de sus gestos? ¿Tal vez ya te hayas planteado llevar a tu hijo a un especialista? Independientemente de si el especialista ha diagnosticado o no a tu hijo de hiperreactividad o hiporreactividad a los estímulos sensoriales, quieres ayudarlo a regularse con tranquilidad. ¡Este libro de actividades...
Author
Series
Alex Delaware novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage sniper is gunned down when he opens fire on a crowded playground and Alex Delaware, a psychologist, begins therapy sessions with the traumatized children, but when the sniper's father asks him to perform a "psychological autopsy" on his child, Alex discovers a bloody trail and a vicious plot.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
With over two decades experience working directly with parents, acclaimed clinical psychologist and bestselling author Dr. Shefali offers a profoundly practical and groundbreaking parenting solution that helps parents actualize their deepest desires for their children. This step-by-step guide disrupts toxic inherited patterns and replaces them with authentic connections that allow us to see and respond to our children for who they are and who they...
44) Raising adventurous eaters: practical ways to overcome picky eating and food sensory sensitivities
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Children who are picky eaters often have sensory sensitivities that contribute to their food aversions-whether it's smell, taste, texture, or appearance. Written by a pediatric occupational therapist with a specialty in feeding, eating, and swallowing, this book offers eight evidence-based sensory strategies to help kids develop a positive relationship with food, so they can become healthy and adventurous eaters for life"--
"Help kids develop a...
Publisher
School of Life Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Our minds are beautifully complicated and brilliant machines. For much of our lives, these machines run efficiently with minimal maintenance. However, just like our other organs, they do require some proper attention every now and then. Recognizing this at an early age can only help as children progress into adulthood. Happy, Healthy Minds is a guide designed to help children become more aware of their emotional needs and examines a range of topics...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Dr. James Dobson has completely rewritten, updated, and expanded his classic best seller The Strong-Willed Child for a new generation of parents and teachers. The New Strong-Willed Child follows on the heels of Dr. Dobson's phenomenal best seller Bringing Up Boys. It offers practical how-to advice on raising difficult-to-handle children and incorporates the latest research with Dr. Dobson's legendary wit and wisdom. The New Strong-Willed Child is...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Go
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning brings the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into the digital age. It focuses on six skills and mindsets that parents and educators can foster in kids -- curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication, perseverance, and empathy -- by leading with a Mister Rogers anecdote, then connecting the logic behind what Mister Rogers did on his show to the latest science, followed by tips for...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Esther Wojcicki--"Woj" to her many friends and admirers--is famous for three things: teaching a high school class that has changed the lives of thousands of kids, inspiring Silicon Valley legends like Steve Jobs, and raising three daughters who have each become famously successful. What do these three accomplishments have in common? They're the result of TRICK, Woj's secret to raising successful people: Trust, Respect, Independence, Collaboration,...
Author
Publisher
Square One Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"As children grow, some of the terms listed on this book's front cover may be used to describe them on occasion. When there seems to be a recurrent pattern of one or more of these types of behavior, however, something may be wrong. As a parent, if you have noticed something "off" about the way your child has been acting, perhaps it's time to take a closer look at what might actually going on--before it gets worse. What to Do About Your Troubled Child...
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Cómo despertar para el crecimiento mutuo, desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia. Tras la publicación de Educa bonito, María Soto nos brinda un libro, hilado desde su experiencia personal y profesional, con los valores necesarios para conseguir despertar nuestra labor educativa centrada en el respeto, buscando la conexión con nuestros hijos y el crecimiento mutuo, «poniendo el foco en las fortalezas de cada etapa para poder preservarlas». Esta...
Author
Publisher
Shambhala
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Parents of toddlers can find themselves overwhelmed and struggling with self-doubt when their child is willful, or is having trouble navigating difficult emotions and circumstances. Mindfulness can help! In The Little Frog Awakes, Eline Snel offers parents of children -ages 18 months--4 years--advice and tools for responding mindfully and effectively in the moment. These skills help us regain trust in ourselves and in the integral wholeness of our...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
For parents, teachers, counselors, and psychotherapists alike, children's physical and mental development is the cornerstone of parenting work. Not only so that they spend their childhood in the greatest possible well-being, but also so that they become adults with the necessary capacities to successfully adapt to an increasingly demanding world. For this, it is essential that we teach them to develop essential emotional capacities: that we guide...
Author
Publisher
Muddy Pearl
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Ours is a worried world. Children are growing up with anxiety, uncertainty, and low self-esteem, and the COVID-19 pandemic, bringing lockdowns and yet more life online, has only intensified this. Many parents feel helpless as their happy, easygoing children are overwhelmed by a tsunami of pressure and worry. How can we help them flourish in these infamously "unprecedented" times? Katharine Hill, UK director of Care for the Family, throws us a lifeline....
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An encyclopedic reference for parents concerned with maintaining the mental health of their children, this will help you help your child to deal effectively with stress and pressure, to cope with everyday challenges, and to rebound from disappointments, mistakes, trauma, and adversity.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Book of Radical Answers is a groundbreaking work of non-fiction by author and activist Sonya Renee Taylor that gives honest, empowering and age appropriate answers to real questions from young readers about health, sex, gender, race and justice. Steeped in joy and possibility, Taylor's writing assures kids that, as they mature, life will be fun, complicated, strange and wonderful, and most importantly, that they are amazing and have the ability...
59) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
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Language
English
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Description
"The fascinating-and eerily timely-tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Français
Description
Les parents de Matthew pensent qu'il devrait jouer dans une ̌quipe sportive. Comment pourra-t-il apprendre le travail d'̌quipe s'il ne fait que dessiner des images toute la jourňe? Sa m̈re l'inscrit au baseball. Mais sur le terrain, Matthew est trop occup̌ ̉regarder des choses. pour attraper la balle. Lorsqu'une balle tombe directement dans son gant, il dessine une image dessus et la rejette. Les joueurs lui en lancent une autre, une autre et...
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