Based on his own "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens," this workbook is an engaging companion that allows teens to build on Covey's time-proven principles giving them the tools they need to improve self-esteem, build friendships, resist peer pressure, and strengthen themselves in many other areas.
Sue Bender's follow-up to her phenomenally popular "Plain and Simple" is a conscientious attempt to capture moments from her life that speak powerfully to our shared longing to make each day truly count.
Based on his father's bestselling The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Sean Covey applies the same principles to teens, using a vivacious, entertaining style. To keep it fun, Covey writes, he "stuffed it full of cartoons, clever ideas, great quotes, and incredible stories about real teens from all over the world...along with a few other ...
An essential resource--featuring 50 proven Quick Reference guides--for the millions of parents, siblings, and friends of people with mental illness, as well as professionals in the field.
A compassionate guide to enduring the death of a husband and learning to carry on. In this remarkably useful guide, widow, author, and therapist Genevieve Davis Ginsburg offers fellow widows-as well as their family and friends-sage advice for coping with the loss of a husband. From learning to travel and eat alone to creating new routines to ...
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller "Adult Children of Alcoholics" -- a wonderful book that affirms and encourages AcoAs by developing skills for living. Imagine how good you would feel if: You could stand up for yourself without losing your temper You could make a decision without second guessing yourself You didn't have that ...
If you have been sexually assaulted, you are probably experiencing a mix of fear, anger, and depression. If you are a relative, friend, or lover of someone who has been assaulted, you too may be deeply affected by the incident and by the survivor's reaction to it. However, working together, survivors and their loved ones can recover and may even ...
- Begins with the central reality that teenagers get to design their own lives and that the choices they make today will have an impact later down the road. - Covers every aspect of life that teens need to understand as they become adults: Love, money, jobs, happiness, success, morality, goals, society and more. - Aids in answering fundamental ...
Caine offers practical advice and guidance to women lost in the loneliness and stress of widowhood. She writes candidly about the universal issues of grief--the impact of death, depression, legal and financial problems, re-emerging sexuality, dreams, and more.
Those who have never experienced an abusive or violent relationship often believe that upon finding a way out, victims' difficulties are solved: their life is good, they are safe, and recovery will be swift. However, survivors know that leaving is not the end of the nightmare - it is the beginning of an often difficult and challenging journey ...
With wit, plucky self-confidence, and practical sense, Weaver tackles the difficult questions women must face as they age, sharing ideas and encouraging anecdotes on everything from coping with widowhood and family to making new friends, going back to school, traveling, and support groups. Line drawings.
At last lesbian culture is becoming more visible in the mainstream media. From The O.C. to The L Word, gay women (and the occasional bi-curious straight girl) are portrayed coming to terms with their sexuality and embracing it. But the journey from sexual curiosity to finally coming out can be confusing without proper guidance and empowering role ...
The perfect forum for teens to let off steam, figure stuff out, and ultimately find the confidence they need to succeed in life, this journal includes quizzes, contemporary quotes, pages for photos, stickers, and blank pages for their own poetry and artwork.
In this warm, sensitive, fact-filled book, Paul Tournier deals specifically with many aspects of aging: society's attitude toward the elderly, second careers, the quality of life, financial difficulties, boredom, health, loneliness, and facing death. He maintains the best way to learn to grow old is to prepare for it throughout life.
There is a great tradition in the African-American community of gaining daily inspiration and motivation from recounting the extraordinary words, thoughts, and achievements of people of African descent. Now, at last, there is a book that offers 365 special messages to help African-Americans find the strength to achieve their dreams.
This work gives parents of children from age three through young adulthood proven strategies for teaching children the life skills they'll need to live as independently as possible. It covers getting ready, self-help, toilet training, play, self-care, home care, and information gathering skills.
Activity schedules -- simple, yet revolutionary teaching tools -- enable children with autism to accomplish activities with greatly reduced adult supervision. An activity schedule is a set of pictures or words that cues a child to engage in a sequence of activities. When activity schedules are mastered, children are more self-directed and ...
Discusses the pressures and problems encountered by teenagers and provides information on life skills, stress management, and methods of gaining more control over their lives.
This text is a guide to "living it up" in the senior years, addressing the many issues faced by older women. It covers such areas as: reinventing yourself in the older years; housing yourself "outrageously"; enjoying affordable travel; fostering relationships; and joining social groups.
Assertion is the hazy line between passivity and aggression. With societal preferences in constant flux, so is the amount of confidence and authority that is acceptable for women to display. Many women believe that it is inappropriate to display any anger at all. They are kept subdued by deep-rooted guilt and irrational beliefs, often taking ...
Serving learners from kindergarten through age 21, this field-tested curriculum is a must for professionals and parents devoted to directly preparing a student with disabilities to thrive in the real world. It examines the role of community living domains, functional academics, and embedded skills and includes practical implementation strategies ...
Entertaining and graphically arresting--and featuring checklists, cards to cut out and keep, and journal space to keep track of readers' 101 things as they experience them--this is the perfect book to help one seize the day. Consumable.
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