The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom Review

To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As Breathing
Did you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that children learn best when they pursue their own natural curiosities and interests. Without bells, schedules, and rules about what to do and when, the knowledge they gain through mindful living and exploration is absorbed more easily and enthusiastically. Learning is a natural, inborn impulse, and the world is rich with lessons to be learned and puzzles to be solved.
Successful unschooling parents know how to stimulate and direct their children's learning impulse. Once you read this book, so will you!

Raising Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide: A Parenting Timeline of What to Do at Every Age and Stage of Your Child's Development

Raising Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide: A Parenting Timeline of What to Do at Every Age and Stage of Your Child's Development Review

Rasing Your Child: The Complete Illustrated Guide is an information-packed guide that leads parents through the ever changing maze of new behaviors, developments, and challenges present in a child’s first six years. It is filled with essential information, expert advice, practical solutions, and key choices to ensure a child’s healthy development for their first six years—and set them up for success in later developmental stages. In addition to understanding their child’s stage of development, readers are given parenting techniques and activities they can use with their child to maximize physical, emotional, intellectual, and behavioral development at every age and stage.

A comparison of how parents cope with child's cognitive disabilities at different age ranges.

A comparison of how parents cope with child's cognitive disabilities at different age ranges. Review

When children are born it is often an opportunity for a parent to "show off" their child. However, when the unexpected happens, and a newborn is delivered with impairments, the parents often react quite differently from the parents whose child is "normal". Parents' management of stress resulting from their child's cognitive disabilities can affect parents' attitudes and interpersonal-relationships with their children. Their coping strategies in dealing with their child's cognitive disabilities can be critical to a child's development. For the parents of children with various low-incident disabilities, how they cope with their child is considerably different from the parents whose child is more typical. As Ross (1953) found, the success or failure of the family depends on the attitude of the parents toward their child. This can be revealed when parents with children who display low-incident disabilities demonstrate adaptations with time, effort, care, and strategies to meet the needs of their child. As a result, the parents' ways of coping are crucial to the child and the family's development.

Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming

Your Child's Weight: Helping without Harming Review

As much about parenting as feeding, this latest release from renowned childhood feeding expert Ellyn Satter considers the overweight child issue in a new way. Combining scientific research with inspiring anecdotes from her decades of clinical practice, Satter challenges the conventional belief that parents must get overweight children to eat less and exercise more. In the long run, she says, making them go hungry and forcing them to be active makes children preoccupied with food, prone to overeating, turned off to activity, and likely to gain too much weight. Trust is a central theme here: children must be able to trust parents to provide as much food as they need to satisfy their appetites; parents must trust children to eat only as much as they need. Satter provides compelling evidence that, if parents do their jobs with respect to feeding, children are remarkably capable of knowing how much to eat.