Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (Experience the Life)

Wounded Children, Healing Homes: How Traumatized Children Impact Adoptive and Foster Families (Experience the Life) Review

Why doesn’t our child return our love? What are we failing to understand? What are we failing to do? These questions can fill the minds of adoptive parents caring for wounded, traumatized children.

Families often enter into this experience with high expectations for their child and for themselves but are broadsided by shattered assumptions. This book addresses the reality of those unmet expectations and offers validation and solutions for the challenges of parenting deeply traumatized and emotionally disturbed children.

Taste of Home: Busy Family Cookbook: 370 Recipes for Weeknight Dinners

Taste of Home: Busy Family Cookbook: 370 Recipes for Weeknight Dinners Review

Save time, and your sanity, with the 370 recipes that feature simple prep techniques, and easy cooking methods?some take as little as 10 minutes to make?from the experts at Taste of Home, the #1 cooking magazine in the world.

Tired of coming home to calls of ?What?s for dinner?? from your family. This collection of 370 family-pleasing recipes will help you get a delicious dinner on the table?fast?every night of the week. Each chapter is arranged by speed, with the quickest recipes first. So, if you have only a few minutes, make one of the 10-minute entrees. If you have a little more time, choose a 20- minute recipe. There are also 30- and 60-minute choices. Each recipe features a short ingredient list, simple prep techniques and easy cooking methods.

The best part is these time-saving recipes are packed with flavor and variety?from beef, poultry and pork to seafood, meatless, sides and desserts. Plus, there are 226 full-color tempting, mouthing-watering photos! And it?s all from the editors of Taste of Home, America?s #1 cooking magazine! Taste of Home The Busy Family Cookbook is just the kitchen helper you need for fast and flavorful meals!

Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Involvement

Home, School, and Community Collaboration: Culturally Responsive Family Involvement Review

Using the culturally responsive family support model, this text prepares teachers to work effectively with the diverse families of their students

Filled with practical suggestions and reflective opportunities, Home, School, and Community Collaboration uses the culturally responsive family support model to prepare readers to work with children from diverse families. This text includes contributions from 24 experts in the field in addressing the issues in family involvement that today’s teachers are likely to encounter.

Key Features

• Covers family systems theory, family involvement models, and the family support approach
• Includes a wide range of practical strategies for use in today’s schools, as well as activities that help readers make connections between the course content and their own experiences
• Features case studies and vignettes that provide opportunities for reflection and help readers apply text information to real-life settings

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• Instructor Resources on CD offer valuable resources for qualified adopters, such as sample syllabi, teaching tips, PowerPoint presentations, and a comprehensive test bank. Contact Customer Care at 1-800-818-SAGE from 6 AM-5 PM, PT, to request a copy.                                                                                                                              
• A Student study siteoffers practice tests, flashcards, web resources, and SAGE journal articles on topics covered in the text.

New Diabetic Cookbook: Delicious recipes for the whole family (Better Homes & Gardens)

New Diabetic Cookbook: Delicious recipes for the whole family (Better Homes & Gardens) Review

At last—a cookbook for people with diabetes that allows them to prepare and share delicious, as-good-as-it-gets meals with their families. Guaranteed nutrition and inspired taste from America’s number one publisher of cookbooks.

150 recipes designed for diabetics and tasty enough for everyone in their families.

Diabetics will take pleasure in flavorful, imaginative, and healthful meals.

Comprehensive, in-depth section discusses all aspects of managing diabetes—from the basics to healthful food selection and meal planning, as well as the importance of physical activity.

Includes complete list of food exchanges.

Every recipe includes nutrition facts and exchanges based on the American Diabetes Association’s exchange system.

More than 50 enticing, full-color photographs to inspire cooks.

Menus to help in meal planning.

Tasty recipes use familiar ingredients.

Edited by a registered dietitian in consultation with health professionals and other food professionals.

List of resources to contact for additional help with diabetes.

Family Child Care Homes: Creative Spaces for Children to Learn

Family Child Care Homes: Creative Spaces for Children to Learn Review

In family child care settings, it is important that the environment promotes the comfortable feeling of home while also supporting children’s needs and maximizing their learning experiences. Filled with wisdom from an experienced family child care professional, this resource includes advice to enhance any setting and knowledgeable suggestions for item selection, furniture arrangement, storage, and more. Loaded with color photographs and architectural illustrations of indoor and outdoor family child care settings, this resource provides plenty of inspiration and practical information to create a comfortable, home-like setting that benefits children of all ages.

The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide

The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide Review

Question: Where can parents go when they need quick answers to tough questions about discipline, schooling, money, living with a toddler or teenager, creating a strong spiritual foundation, sex education, sibling rivalry, self-esteem, and making marriage work?

Answer: The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide by Dr. James Dobson, America's most respected expert on marriage, parenting, and the family. This comprehensive, easy-to-access resource offers time-tested, biblically based information to help build healthy, God-honoring families. This is a softcover release of the book Solid Answers, previously published in hardcover.

Taste of Home Kid-Approved Cookbook: 300+ Family Tested Fun Foods

Taste of Home Kid-Approved Cookbook: 300+ Family Tested Fun Foods Review

For the first time, over 300 beloved kid-friendly recipes from the real home cooks at Taste of Home are gathered into one beautifully photographed volume. More than a cookbook for kids, and not just a collection of recipes that kids will love, Taste of Home Kid Approved Cookbook offers fun, achievable ways to bring families together and celebrate childhood fun!    

 

Recipes include:

• French Toast Sticks
• Berry Ba-nanza Smoothies
• Chicken Alphabet Soup
• Our Favorite Mac & Cheese
• Scooter Snacks
• Veggie Cheese People
• Pigs in a Blanket
• Cheeseburger Cups
• Chocolate Malt Crispy Bars
• Pink Velvet Cupcakes
• S’more Ice Cream Pie

 Icons throughout the book highlight recipe activities for all ages. And a special chapter is devoted to the youngest of cooks. Each recipe is perfect for the whole gang, making your little one a proud contributor to the family meals.

When Disaster Strikes Home! 101 ways to protect your family from unthinkable emergencies

When Disaster Strikes Home! 101 ways to protect your family from unthinkable emergencies Review

This book is a great source of easy-to-understand family disaster planning strategies that can protect you from many of life's emergencies. It will help get you prepared and ready for virtually any emergency that could happen to you and your family at home or at work.