psychological aspects

Offers parents of overweight children advice on how they can help their child lose weight and cope with the emotional and physical issueas surrounding obesity in adolescents.

Explores the pressures teens feel to fit in at school and to be accepted by their classmates. Shows positive steps that can be taken to change how teens perceive themselves and how they treat others.

Provides exercises for women joggers, with advice on a daily running program, diet, and clothing.

Provides advice and specific suggestions for overcoming anxiety about working with mathematics.

Presents a parable designed to teach people how to be successful in business and in their personal lives by practicing delayed gratification--holding out for what they really want.

Provides advice for children of divorced parents to help them get through the tough times, with comments from over twenty-five people, ages sixteen through twenty-eight, who have lived through the experience, telling how they dealt with their feelings of anger, confusion, and pain.

Offers educators practical guidance, case studies, reproducibles, reflection and discussion questions, and other resources to help them combat bullying at the school, class, and individual levels.

Examines the process of grieving for a pet, sharing anecdotes and poems by celebrities and ordinary people who have experienced the loss of a beloved animal, and includes a list of organizations devoted to pet care and burial.