life skills

Combines photography and text in an upbeat approach to elementary childhood milestones that encourages young children to practice such independent skills as tying shoes, making beds, and writing letters and numbers.

Practice Good Hygiene! focuses on hygiene skills while discussing steps children can take to practice healthy lifestyles. Readers are introduced to basic body care and why cleanliness is important. Body odor, bad breath, germs, and selfesteem are discussed. Callouts prompt inquiry, further thinking, and close examination of photographs. Additional text features and search tools, including a glossary and an index, help students locate information and learn new words.

A celebration of the enduring power of love in which a mother shares her own hopes and dreams, and lets her child know that whatever challenges life brings, she encourages the child to follow his heart, hopes, and passions so that his dreams can come true.

A collection of helpful tips for kids for becoming more organized at home and at school.

Provides techniques for dealing with embarrassing, emotional, or frightening situations, including forgetting your lines on stage, being threatened by a bully, or losing your parents in a big city.

Presents a collection of two hundred reproducible activity sheets, discussion questions, applied exercises, and suggestions forteaching social skills to students with special needs in grades six through twelve.

"In their second term at Great Rapscott School for Girls of Busy Parents, Ms. Rapscott teaches her students that the path to The Top starts at the Bottom of the Barrel and other silly lessons"--Provided by publisher.

The experts at Kaufmann Mercantile provide detailed how-tos on fifty topics ranging from building a fire and making soap to frying an egg and brewing coffee.

"Twelve-year-old Clea wants to do her homework, follow instructions, pay attention in school, and play chess on the school team, but somehow she cannot focus on whatever is in front of her, and the other kids at school are starting to notice and make fun of her; when her worried parents take her to be tested she finds out that she has ADHD (only without the hyperactivity)--and with help from the psychiatrist who seems to really understand her she is determined to learn how to focus"--Provided by publisher.

Shows readers the steps to the fundamental social skills of accepting "no" and disagreeing appropriately. When RJ learns to use these skills the right way, he finds that rewards come his way, instead of arguments.