Schwangerschaft & Elternschaft

Today's teachers are tasked with maintaining rigorous class, office, and grading schedules, seeing to their students' needs, and maintaining communication with parents who are just as stressed as they are. It's no wonder parents and teachers run into miscommunications. As a parent and teacher herself, Christina Singh dives deep into many of the issues parents and teachers face during the school year, such as disagreements on how to handle children who misbehave or fall behind. This insightful and informative guide for parents and teachers outlines communication strategies, parenting and teaching tips, and personal experiences in order to help parents and teachers communicate more effectively.

Learning in Lockdown is a judgment-free handbook for parents manoeuvring through the major family disruption of a school closure. Regardless of whether you are facing impending school shutdown, your campus is closing again, or you are now several weeks into managing remote learning, this handbook is for you. You will find that it is never too late to reflect and make changes - whether big or small - to de-stress and streamline learning at home with young children. IN THE COVID-19 ERA FAMILY LIFE HAS SUDDENLY AND DEEPLY CHANGED. Hailed by parents as "validating" and "confidence building", it contains sound advice and practical tips, based on first-hand experience. Its message resonates with parents anywhere that schools have shut their gates and remote learning at home has begun. Among Learning in Lockdown's most valuable insights: How to prepare your children for remote learning, and design a positive learning environment at homeHow to motivate your child - and keep them motivatedWhy routines can make or break your home during lockdownWhat your child's teacher expects of you, and what you need from themWhy self-care and keeping remote learning in perspective is so important right nowHow to design learning at home so that your child increases their independence and finds their own version of success And you will also find affirmation, honesty and advocacy for you because your family can't make it without you. "After months of struggling with (and repeatedly failing at) the facilitation of my own children's distance learning, its sound advice, real-world strategies, and relatable stories offered me immediate comfort. In a world that was feeling increasingly isolated, Learning in Lockdown made me feel less alone" - Mother of two, USA"As an educator myself, I naively believed I was well-equipped to facilitate my own children's distance learning. Instead, two weeks into lockdown, I found myself overwhelmed, ill-prepared, and ready to throw in the towel. Learning in Lockdown could not have landed in my lap at a better time. It spoke to, and validated, the many emotions and experiences our family was undergoing. It might be an overstatement to say that Learning in Lockdown saved our family this year...but I don't think so" - Mother of two & qualified high school teacher, USA..."Learning in Lockdown offered me the confidence and real-world strategies to tackle distance learning with relative ease" - Grandmother of four, Australia

Have you ever thought about how the placenta is born? Did you know that there are actually three different approaches to the birth of the placenta within maternity care? Are you aware that research has shown significant advantages to the baby in taking a slower approach, however the placenta is born. Or that there is plenty of evidence to support a more natural approach for healthy women who would prefer that?This book has been written to help women make decisions about the birth of their placenta. We examine the different options, detail the evidence relating to each and discuss the wider context in which these decisions are made. No matter what kind of birth you are hoping for, this book will help you understand the different options.Dr Nadine Edwards and Dr Sara Wickham are world renowned and respected researchers and writers who have a long-standing interest in the birth of the placenta and the evidence relating to this. This is a completely revised and updated edition of their popular book on this topic.

Every three minutes, a child is born with a disability. Every three minutes, a parent is tossed upon an emotional roller coaster of raising a child with a disability. The steep climbs and sharp curves of emotions in raising a child with a disability are not something a parent is prepared for. These parents will flounder around in a maelstrom of negative emotions for months or years until they can finally work their way out.Hang On! Navigating the Emotional Roller Coaster of Raising a Child with a Disability addresses these issues to allow parents to recognize when they are in the grasp of a negative emotion and how to overcome its impact. In doing so, the parent can then move on to the positive emotions that can be experienced in raising their child with a disability. Hang On! first addresses the negative emotions parents of a child with a disability face by 1. Providing a brief description of twelve negative emotions 2. Examining the dangers of experiencing each negative emotion 3. Allowing the parent to recognize if they are experiencing that emotion 4. Providing ways to leave that negative emotion behindHang On! then continues to the fourteen positive emotions a parent can experience in raising a child with a disability by 1. Providing a brief description of fourteen positive emotions 2. Examining the benefits derived from each emotion 3. Providing ways to enhance the experiences of each of these positive emotions

Mothers and daughters share a special bond that ebbs and flows throughout their lives. It may not always be solid, but no matter what difficulties they face, their relationships are usually unbreakable.Take a step back in time to uncover the engaging lives of four mothers and daughters. As pioneer women's rights leaders, Martha Wright, Abby Kelley Foster, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Lucy Stone worked diligently for what they believed women deserved. Letters, diary entries, and journals reveal the strong mother-daughter relationships that not only enriched their personal lives, but the woman suffrage movement as a whole.From the mid-1800s to the early 1900s, these women struggled to make the world a better place. Through their actions and beliefs, they forged a path for future generations and raised daughters to be determined young women who merit our attention today.

Turn your gymnasium or playground into that magical space that your students will look forward to visiting week after week. Jim Eagan shares over 60 of his tried and tested activities developed over his 40 year career as one of the top Elementary Physical Education Teachers in New England. This book delivers a unique set of individual Physical Education activities that incorporate all of the components of an outstanding curriculum. Each of these activities (games), in many cases, has been modified over the course of several years to better meet the individual needs of today's physical education students. Not only is this a terrific resource for new teachers, but it will help experienced teachers introduce new activities into their established curriculum. The students will love these activities. Detailed instructions with diagrams, and in many cases, "modifications," are provided for every activity. This publication will also be an invaluable tool in helping Principals, Physical Education Directors, and even Camp Directors, to provide their staff members with a complete "skill based" set of over 60 activities that are easy to implement in even the most challenging teaching environments.