High Risk: Children Without A Conscience MH 05

High-Risk Families--Learning Kit for the Home-Based Practitioner F V-02

This kit describes and demonstrates the skills you need to identify and build the unique strengths of each family member to promote changes that enable the family to stay together. This is a 265-page comprehensive manual that details how home-based practitioners can teach skills to troubled families. You will learn how to establish treatment plans oriented to achieving measurable goals. In clear, step-by-step language and format, the book outlines strategies for dealing with crises and maintaining focus in chaotic situations. The 115 minute set of two videotapes is packed with realistic demonstrations by actual Boys Town Family Preservation Consultants of these techniques in a variety of  family settings. You'll see 13 practitioner skills in action that build relationships, minimize resistance, and keep treatment focused on the family's goals. This learning package will give you, as an in-home worker, the knowledge and skills for empowering families to function independently. It's the framework you need to help high-risk families say together and be successful.

Home Schools An Alternative: You do Have a Choice ED 25

The type of education that your children receive will affect them for the rest of their lives. Learning is as natural to children as growing. They learn because they want to, not because they are forced. This true learning style would continue throughout life, except that we force kids to go to school.

Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants SPH 06

In this comprehensive book, the nations' leading homeopathic educator provides everything parents need to know about treating their children's ailments at home with homeopath medicines. Included is a complete guide to the correct use of homeopathy, recommended remedies for the treatment of more than seventy-five common physical, emotional, and behavioral conditions, and valuable information on the essential medicines that all parents should have in their home medicine kits.

Homeschooling: A Parents Guide To Teaching Children ED 37

More and more parents today are disillusioned with public education, whether due to increased crowding and violence in the schools, incompetent teachers, or differences in teaching philosophy. Instead of merely tolerating a faulty system, expanding numbers of parents are turning to alternative education - specifically homeschooling - for their children.   Homeschooling is now the fastest-growing educational phenomenon in the United States. This book not only describes what homeschooling is all about, it helps parents decide whether this choice fits their family lifestyle. This book covers virtually every aspect of homeschooling: Why parents choose homeschooling; Devising and implementing a personal philosophy of education; What to teach and how to teach it; Handling the need for socialization; Dealing with the bureaucratic system; And much more. Even if parents can't homeschool full-time, the will find that this book offers useful, practical information on how to educate their children at home part-time. If there ever was a liberation movement in America, this is it.

Homework Without Tears ED 26

A parent's guide for motivating children to do homework and to succeed in school.

Homework?--I'll Do It Later P V-08

Through dramatized vignettes, this video shows you how to find out if your child is having difficulty with homework and how to motivate and teach your youngster the most effective way to do homework. The video is accompanied by a viewer's guide that allows parents to study the ideas presented.

Honorable Intentions MH 19

A parent's guide to educational planning for children with emotional or behavioral disorders.

Hope for the Families: New Directions for Parents MSC 02A

If you are the parent of a child with a disability and sometimes have felt that you were completely unable to cope with the unique problems confronting you, let Robert Perske be your guide to an enlightened and rewarding life for you and your child. In 28 brief, optimistic chapters, he shows the many ways that parents and families can overcome their fears and inhibitions. He looks at such varied and practical topics as changing world-views, theology, human dignity, sexual development, and family systems, and explores the numerous opportunities open to persons with retardation or other disabilities. To emphasize his meaning and to encourage discussion, "Consider These Options" sections are included with most chapters. Adding still more warmth to this forward-looking volume are 24 extraordinarily sensitive drawings by Martha Perske.

How About a Hug C 18

Life is certainly a happy experience for the little girl in this book. Though it takes concentration and a great desire to do each task, this little girl with Down's Syndrome has many loving helpers to share her happy times. Have fun with her as she shares her day, her tasks, and her hugs. All young children will enjoy reading this special hug book.

How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop LD V-01

This informative and entertaining film allows the viewer to look at the world through the eyes of a learning disabled child. It features a unique workshop attended by parents, educators, psychologists and social workers. They participate in a series of classroom activities which cause Frustration, Anxiety and Tension . . . Emotions all too familiar to the student with a learning disability. Following the workshop, the participants enter a lively discussion of topics ranging from school/home communication, sibling relationships and social skills.

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