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From Good Parents to
Great Parenting
Do you want to be a great parent to your children? Are you struggling
to achieve this in today’s troubled world? Is the advice you
are getting contradictory, perhaps even belongs to a bygone era? Are
you struggling to keep your relationship with your children ‘on
track’ but unsure what ‘on track’ actually is for
your children and your family? Are you loosing sight of the overwhelming
joy and love you experienced when you held your child the first time?
Is parenting sometimes exasperating but at other times pleasurable?
If you are answering yes to most of these questions you are with the
majority of parents in this day and age – you want to do the
right thing for your children but you are uncertain what this actually
involves.
From Good Parents to Great Parenting will
give you a way to navigate through this parenting maze. It will provide
clear, practical directions of what to do as parent when facing the
daily demands that family life brings. To be a great parent, you need
to put on the face of great parenting. The great parenting face is
a blend of five performance roles – parent as wise leader, astute
manager, coaching teacher, caring nurturer, careful monitor. What
your particular blend is will be unique to you. This book provides
you will the opportunity to learn more about each face so that you
can apply the faces to your parenting. After all what children want
are great parents and what parents want is to be great parents for
their children. Children are our future, you are their hope. Go for
great parenting. |
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Childhood Grief and Loss. Exploring
Childhood Bereavement
Support children learn to live with their grief in ways that will
not hinder their healthy development. This is the ideal book for
anyone who has or has not experienced death, dying or divorce and
is desperately trying to understand the pain of that loss so that
they can help children grieve by showing true empathy and compassion.
It is a MUST read for anyone who is supporting children deal with
grief and loss. Children need to experiencethe loss associated with
grief. They need to move on in their own time, not someone else's.
Topics include:
• Childhood grief cycle
• Children’s perceptions of death
• Helping children following a death
• Explaining death and divorce to children
• Indicators of problematic grief
• Supporting children when someone they know dies by suicide
• Family members with a terminal illness
• Memorial / funeral services
• Grief and divorce
• Death of family pet
• Children’s book dealing with death, dying, divorce |
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Take a Stand Lend a Hand - Stop
Bullying Now
This book is aimed at adults wanting to teach children responsible
ways of responding to bullying incidents – as bully, victim,
peer bystander. Proven practical tactics are explained along with
environmental structures, systems and instructional processes.
Topics include
* Defining bullying behaviours·
* Impact of bullying incidents
* Characteristics of bullies, victims, bystanders
* Reasons why children choose to bully / not to bully
* Role of adults, including parents, in responding to bullying
* Practical strategies for all involved in bullying incidents –
society, school/centre, group, individual |
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Young Children's Social Behaviour
What's not okay is not okay Describes a contemporary paradigm approach
to developing and managing young children’s social behaviour.
Authoritative practical tactics for implementing this approach –
in care, education and home settings - are named and explained.
This book is for adults working with children
across the Early Years of life. If you are interested in guiding,
teaching, managing and leading young children’s social behaviour,
then this book is for YOU.
Comments about this book:
• A wonderful resource that gives adults powerful ideas for
supporting children learn social behaviour
• Much-needed and long awaited book for the early years
• Both a guide for teacher educators, manual for practitioners
already in the field.
• An outstanding resource for early years staff wanting to
lead and manage the development of young children’s social
behaviour
• Brilliant book for parents and professionals wanting to
guide children as they develop their social behaviour
• An essential resource to support all areas of learning |
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Behaviour Teaching and Learning
in Educational Settings
Learn contemporary non-blame approaches to developing, guiding, leading
and managing children’s social behaviour. Explore the role of
the adults in behaviour development and management. Learn about environmental
systems and instructional practices that support behaviour teaching
and learning. Learn practical ways of supporting children develop
ownership for their behaviour.
Comments about this book:
• An informative and practical
text for professional practitioners keen to implement contemporary
behaviour development, management and leadership systems, processes,
practices and strategies.
• A breath of fresh air –
at least a book for professional practitioners by a professional practitioner.
• A contemporary resource that will form the backbone of any
schools’ behaviour management program
• Give clear
guidelines of setting and implementing behavioural boundaries
• Explains step-by-step how to respond when children make social
mistakes
• The easy-to-use re-entry plans are exactly what
we have been looking for – children reflecting on the effectiveness
/ appropriateness of their own behaviours and what needs to change
to re-enter the group setting. |
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It's time for you! Me Time
This book provides uncomplicated and unpretentious ways of taking
care of you by taking ‘Me’ time. Taking time for you
is not done thoughtlessly but unselfishly, taken unashamedly and
with intent. To take the best care of others you need to prioritize
your own self care. ‘It’s time for you! Me Time’
sets the course for this to eventuate.
Comments about this book:
• Learn guilt free ways of caring
for yourself.
• Vital source of simple knowledge on self care which everyone
caring for others needs to read
• Down-to-earth uncomplicated ways of caring for yourself. All
suggestions are inexpensive and easily accessible
• A ‘must have’ and ‘must read’ book
for all of us who care for others
• Learn practical ways of care for yourself
• Timely and valuable resource |
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Conflict Resolution for Children
A practical resource, rich with processes, procedures, strategies
and plans for teaching children constructive ways of resolving conflict.
Topics include: Definition of conflict resolution terms; Conflict
resolution processes; Communicating with children; Conflict resolution
tools; Working IT out problem solving plans
Comments about this book:
• A teacher resource suitable
for all primary year levels
• An invaluable resource for
adults wanting to empower children to solve social problems
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A practical, hands on non-blame approach to teaching children conflict
resolution
• Can be used in conjunction with your existing
behaviour support program
• Great ideas to create caring,
safe and positive environments
• Enhances the teaching and
learning of values education |
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Emotion Fitness for kids: Setting
kids up for the game of life
A dynamic fun way of teaching children emotion well-being skills so
they can develop emotion fitness competencies.
Part one is written specifically for adults and explores the what
and how of coaching children with emotion fitness. Topics include:
defining emotion fitness, the adult's role in supporting children's
emotion fitness, the necessity to teach emotion fitness, environmental
practicalities and positive achiever thinking.
Part two is written for the children. There are 55 topics including
- about me, confidence, dial-a-smile, friendship, kindness, love bag,
organization, special interest, taking turns, what to do when.
Comments about this book:
• Timely and indispensable
resource for adults and children
• At last, a book about
emotional well-being that doesn't send you to sleep
• Open
ended activities which encourage discussion of emotions
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Easy to read, comprehend and implement
• The multiple intelligence
approach to teaching emotion fitness is brilliant
• Great
activities to develop all areas of emotion fitness
• Independent
and collaborative learning opportunities – suitable for whole-class
instruction, or for use with individuals or small groups |
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Pirates
An Early-Years K-3 Group Program for Developing Social Understanding
and Social Competence for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
and Related Challenges by Dr. Margaret Anne Carter and Josie Santomauro |
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Space Travelers
This interactive social skills program, developed for students with
ASD and other social cognitive challenges, takes students on a journey
into space. Here they learn major social skills, including understanding
emotions, feelings and thinking patterns, reflective problem solving,
stress release, dealing with bullying, goal setting and self-regulation.
The space theme is sure to appeal to students in 4-5 grade. An accompanying
student manual gives students a permanent record of their accomplishments
and allow teachers and parents to review and assess children’s
progress. |
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Cool Comics
A new resource by Dr. Margaret Carter and Josie Santomauro
Cool Comics is a fun method to teach children constructive ways of
responding to/in social situations. The main character in the comic
scenes experiences all sorts of challenges in the social world. The
comics illustrate how to respond to these challenges using positive
self-talk. Students are introduced to resolving social conflicts in
a positive manner.
This resource consists of five
comics centred around school scenes, eg: how to deal with bullying
on the playground to asking for help in the classroom, with prompts
to assist with feelings, thinking and doing. Also included is a guide
for adults to further discuss comic scenes with students. |
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