A groundbreaking approach to building learning habits for life, based on a major new study revealing what works – and what doesn’t Life is different for kids today. Between standardized testing, the Common Core Curriculum, copious homework assignments, and seemingly endless amounts of “screen time,” it’s hard for kids – and parents – to know what’s most essential. How can parents help their kids succeed – not just do well “on the test” -- but develop the learning habits they’ll need to thrive throughout their lives? This important and parent-friendly book presents new solutions based on the largest study of family routines ever conducted. The Learning Habit offers a blueprint for navigating the maze of homework, media use, and the everyday stress that families with school-age children face; turning those “stress times” into opportunities to develop the eight critical skills kids will need to succeed in college and in the highly competitive job market of tomorrow – skills including concentration and focus, time management, decision-making, goal-setting, and self-reliance. Along with hands-on advice and compelling real-life case studies, the book includes 21 fun family challenges for parents and kids, bringing together the latest research with simple everyday solutions to help kids thrive, academically and beyond.

The Learning Habit: A Groundbreaking Approach to Homework and Parenting that Helps Our Children Succeed in School and Life

Parenting & Relationships

Donaldson-Pressman, Stephanie

Jackson, Rebecca

PRESSMAN, Dr. ROBERT

Reference

TarcherPerigee

Gifts of Power: The Writings of Rebecca Jackson, Black Visionary, Shaker Eldress

Gifts of power: The writings of Rebecca Jackson, black visionary, Shaker eldress

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

University of Massachusetts Press

GoodParentGoodChild books, give parents successful techniques to solve specific parenting challenges. They are written from the perspectives of a pediatric psychologist, a clinical social worker, and the mother of both a toddler and a 'tween. The GoodParentGoodChild series presents actual case stories, making the books more interesting and real. The series also features companion story books for your children, Matilda and Maxwell. These beautiful and very funny books will help and delight your children, and make you laugh. ABOUT GOODNIGHT: Good Night introduces you to a simple, thoughtful, and effective technique called "What's the Rule." The authors have taught parents this technique for over 35 years, and now present it in a clear and often humorous light in Good Night. Parents can expect great changes in nighttime behavior. What's even more interesting is that with better bedtime behavior, a recent study shows children's overall behavior improves. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, LICSW is the author of the best selling Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment. She has been working with adults, children and families for over 20 years. Dr. Robert Pressman is a pediatric psychologist with over 35 years of experience. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology and is the author of five texts. Rebecca Jackson is the founder and CEO of Good Parent, Inc. She is the working mother of both a toddler and a 'tween. REVIEWS: "This book is a small miracle. 'What's the Rule?' is extremely sensible, the technique is explained very clearly, and the parent stories are terrific." --Dr. Laurence E. Bouchard, Family Physician and Past President, American Osteopathic Association. "Good Night is as helpful as it is entertaining. After decades of treating children and training doctors, I believe that Good Night offers the clearest and most practical system for changing children's behavior."-- Joel K. Weltman, MD, PhD, Pediatric Allergist, Clinical Professor Emeritus, Brown University Medical School. "This beautifully written book is the answer for so many parents who struggle with getting their children to bed." --Dr. Jack G. Wiggins, Past President, American Psychological Association "After using What's the Rule? for only three nights, for the first time ever, our kids slept peacefully in their own beds all night." Amy Byron, mother of three.

Good Nights Now: A Parent’s guide to helping children sleep in their own beds without a fuss! (GoodParentGoodChild)

Pressman, Robert

Parenting

Good Parent Good Child

GoodParentGoodChild books, give parents successful techniques to solve specific parenting challenges. They are written from the perspectives of a pediatric psychologist, a clinical social worker, and the mother of both a toddler and a 'tween. The GoodParentGoodChild series presents actual case stories, making the books more interesting and real. The series also features companion story books for your children, Matilda and Maxwell. These beautiful and very funny books will help and delight your children, and make you laugh. ABOUT GOOD NIGHTS NOW: Good Night introduces you to a simple, thoughtful, and effective technique called "What's the Rule." The authors have taught parents this technique for over 35 years, and now present it in a clear and often humorous light in Good Night. Parents can expect great changes in nighttime behavior. What's even more interesting is that with better bedtime behavior, a recent study shows children's overall behavior improves. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, LICSW is the author of the best selling Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment. She has been working with adults, children and families for over 20 years. Dr. Robert Pressman is a pediatric psychologist with over 35 years of experience. He is certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology and is the author of five texts. Rebecca Jackson is the founder and CEO of Good Parent, Inc. She is the working mother of both a toddler and a 'tween. REVIEWS: "Good Nights Now is as helpful as it is entertaining. After decades of treating children and training doctors, I believe that Good Nights Now offers the clearest and most practical system for changing children's behavior I have encountered. I recommend the book highly." --Joel K. Weltman, MD, PhD. After reading the book once to my son, I have only had to ask him What's the Rule? once, and bedtime has been easier." --Mommy Moment Blog "The answer for parents who struggle with getting their children to bed! Using the "voices" of three different authors was pure genius." -Dr. Jack G. Wiggins, Past President, American Psychological Association

Good Nights Now

Family Relationships

Good Parent Inc.

The first book-length empirical investigation of writing center directors’ labor, The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors presents a longitudinal qualitative study of the individual professional lives of nine new directors. Inspired by Kinkead and Harris’s Writing Centers in Context (1993), the authors adopt a case study approach to examine the labor these directors performed and the varied motivations for their labor, as well as the labor they ignored, deferred, or sidelined temporarily, whether or not they wanted to. The study shows directors engaged in various types of labor—everyday, disciplinary, and emotional—and reveals that labor is never restricted to a list of job responsibilities, although those play a role. Instead, labor is motivated and shaped by complex and unique combinations of requirements, expectations, values, perceived strengths, interests and desires, identities, and knowledge. The cases collectively distill how different institutions define writing and appropriate resources to writing instruction and support, informing the ongoing wider cultural debates about skills (writing and otherwise), the preparation of educators, the renewal/tenuring of educators, and administrative “bloat” in academe. The nine new directors discuss more than just their labor; they address their motivations, their sense of self, and their own thoughts about the work they do, facets of writing center director labor that other types of research or scholarship have up to now left invisible. The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors strikes a new path in scholarship on writing center administration and is essential reading for present and future writing center administrators and those who mentor them.

The Working Lives of New Writing Center Directors

McKinney, Jackie Grutsch

Caswell, Nicole I.

Words, Language & Grammar

Utah State University Press

Within these pages meet David Arben, a violinist who treasured life above all else. He experienced the loss of all those he held dear while yet a boy in war-torn Poland. He endured privation and torture in seven Nazi detention facilities. En route to Dachau and the crematoria, Allied aircraft strafed and disabled his train, killing half those on board. He escaped during mass confusion, then became a displaced person wandering the streets with no food or shelter. Joining other concentration camp survivors, they formed an orchestra that later played for judges at the Nuremberg trials. David crossed multiple borders without adequate money or travel documents, following his dream to pursue further violin study. Within a few weeks of sailing the Atlantic and speaking only rudimentary English, he received a letter of recommendation from Leonard Bernstein and auditioned at America's premier music school, gaining immediate admission. After finishing formal studies he quickly secured employment with a major symphony orchestra and began performing around the globe. David Arben retired as associate concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, after soloing with them twenty-seven times.

ARBEN: David Arben's Life of Miracles & Successes

Biographies & Memoirs

Jackson, Dr. John

Arts & Literature

Naches Press

Within these pages meet David Arben, a violinist who treasured life above all else. He experienced the loss of all those he held dear while yet a boy in war-torn Poland. He endured privation and torture in seven Nazi detention facilities. En route to Dachau and the crematoria, Allied aircraft strafed and disabled his train, killing half those on board. He escaped during mass confusion, then became a displaced person wandering the streets with no food or shelter. Joining other concentration camp survivors, they formed an orchestra that later played for judges at the Nuremberg trials. David crossed multiple borders without adequate money or travel documents, following his dream to pursue further violin study. Within a few weeks of sailing the Atlantic and speaking only rudimentary English, he received a letter of recommendation from Leonard Bernstein and auditioned at America's premier music school, gaining immediate admission. After finishing formal studies he quickly secured employment with a major symphony orchestra and began performing around the globe. David Arben retired as associate concertmaster of the Philadelphia Orchestra, soloing with them twenty-seven times. His life provides valuable lessons and remarkable inspiration for any reader.

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