life skills guides

Explains how to use activity schedules--sets of words or pictures that cue activities--to help autistic children perform home, school, and leisure activities with little adult assistance or supervision.

Provides advice for working parents on successfully combining work and family; includes a disk with customizable checklists, charts, and write-in calendars to manage family and work time.

A guide to managing life as a single mother, discussing children, careers, finances, credit, retirement, home ownership, wills, home repair, romance, and other related topics.

Describes seven habits teenagers can cultivate to help them improve their self-images, build friendships, resist peer pressure, achieve goals, get along with parents, and make other positive changes in their lives.

Describes the importance of getting to know oneself, thinking about consequences before taking actions, and caring enough to say no to things that could be harmful or have negative effects on one's life.

Presents letters written to "American Girl" magazine from girls asking for advice about the problems they face in everyday life.

Introduces the different ways to keep safe when children are in the park, in stores, or out in the street.

Gives motherly advice to graduates, newlyweds, and singles on the art of living an organized and self-sufficient life.