All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration/m-/but some do it much more often than others. If you have a “smart but scattered” child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. The expert authors guide you to identify your child's executive strengths and weaknesses, boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce [ital]everyone's[/ital] stress. Including new research, new and updated vignettes, and "A Good Place to Start" suggestions for each skill, the revised and updated second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Helpful practical tools can be downloaded and printed. See also the authors' Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults).
CONTRIBUTORS: Smart but Scattered, Second EditionEAN: 9781462554591COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: 328WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 254 cm
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[School Neuropsychology / School Psychologist] "A revolutionary guide for parents. The second edition offers fresh perspectives on important issues like the impact of technology on developing minds. Smart but Scattered gives parents skills and confidence to enhance their child's success--with strategies that take just 5 to 10 minutes a day."--Julie Gettman, PhD, NCSP, ABSNP, Executive Director, School Neuropsychology Institute "As a pediatric neuropsychologist, I have recommended Smart but Scattered to hundreds--if not thousands--of parents. I didn’t think it was possible to improve on a classic, but the authors have done just that! With deep insight and empathy, the book provides abundant ideas and activities to increase executive function skills. Information about technology--a distraction for most 'scattered' kids--is a wonderful addition to the second edition. I love this book."--Ellen Braaten, PhD, author of Bright Kids Who Can't Keep Up "The second edition improves on the original masterpiece! The authors empower you to foster your child's self-awareness and growth--even if executive skills aren't your own strong suit. What sets this book apart is its user-friendly format, combining scientific insights with actionable advice. The questionnaires alone make the book worthwhile, providing crucial insights into your child's strengths and weaknesses. This is an invaluable resource for anyone dedicated to nurturing a child's potential."--Michael Delman, MEd, Founder and CEO, Beyond BookSmart "This masterfully written book is an indispensable resource. It is packed with practical, evidence-based strategies that you can readily implement to support your child's development. I cannot recommend this book highly enough!"--Lynn Meltzer, PhD, President and Director, Research Institute for Learning and Development, Lexington, Massachusetts-Groundbreaking....Comprehensive, accessible, and hopeful....Dawson and Guare's work should be considered essential. (starred review). (on the first edition)--Library Journal, 12/15/2008
Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist who provides professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. She was previously on the staff of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International School Psychology Association, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults); and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). Dr. Dawson is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Richard Guare, PhD, BCBA-D, is a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst who frequently consults to schools and agencies on attention and executive skills difficulties. He is former Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults); and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults) He is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Colin Guare MS, BCBA, is a Rhode Island-based behavior analyst and writer. He is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; and Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults). Mr. Guare currently works with schools, organizations, parents, and kids of all ages. He has a special interest in motivation and behavior change, and has worked on several projects developing new techniques to help adults seek and achieve their long-term career and personal goals.
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All kids occasionally space out, get sidetracked, run out of time, or explode in frustration/m-/but some do it much more often than others. If you have a “smart but scattered” child, take heart. This encouraging guide is grounded in research on the crucial brain-based skills that 4- to 13-year-olds need to get organized, stay focused, and control their impulses and emotions. The expert authors guide you to identify your child's executive strengths and weaknesses, boost skills that are lacking, fix everyday routines that don't work, and reduce [ital]everyone's[/ital] stress. Including new research, new and updated vignettes, and "A Good Place to Start" suggestions for each skill, the revised and updated second edition features a new chapter on technology and a greatly expanded school chapter. Helpful practical tools can be downloaded and printed. See also the authors' Smart but Scattered Teens, Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults), and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults).
CONTRIBUTORS: Smart but Scattered, Second EditionEAN: 9781462554591COUNTRY: United StatesPAGES: 328WEIGHT: HEIGHT: 254 cm
Peg Dawson, EdD, is a psychologist who provides professional development training on executive skills for schools and organizations nationally and internationally. She was previously on the staff of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Dawson is a past president of the New Hampshire Association of School Psychologists, the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), and the International School Psychology Association, and a recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from NASP. She is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults); and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults). Dr. Dawson is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Richard Guare, PhD, BCBA-D, is a neuropsychologist and board-certified behavior analyst who frequently consults to schools and agencies on attention and executive skills difficulties. He is former Director of the Center for Learning and Attention Disorders at Seacoast Mental Health Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Dr. Guare is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults); and The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success (with a focus on adults) He is also coauthor of The Work-Smart Academic Planner, Revised Edition, and books for professionals including Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition. Colin Guare MS, BCBA, is a Rhode Island-based behavior analyst and writer. He is coauthor of bestselling books for general readers, including Smart but Scattered, Second Edition; Smart but Scattered Teens; and Smart but Scattered--and Stalled (with a focus on emerging adults). Mr. Guare currently works with schools, organizations, parents, and kids of all ages. He has a special interest in motivation and behavior change, and has worked on several projects developing new techniques to help adults seek and achieve their long-term career and personal goals.
My name is Gwendoline Leghlo, from South Africa, I came across this children's book by this author in America and didn't regret the purchased. I purchased it for my grandson who is age 7 and he absolutely loved it, and I could see the excitement in his eyes while reading the book. I genuinely love to put a smile on my grandchildren's faces; He loves reading and mentioned to me that it was fun reading it and it is wonderful to witness that kind of pure joy and engagement. I'm thrilled to share that it is Highly recommended book for children. Thumbs up to the author Charmaine J Forde ***** I am already interested in her next book.
Kan 'n groepie met uitsonderlike vermoëns 'n planeet red?
Die Fluisteraar is ’n baie interessante aanbieding in die toekomsfiksiegenre. Die jaar is 2075. Die wêreld se natuurlike hulpbronne is uitgeput. Natuurrampe, oorloë, plae en voedseltekorte het miljoene uitgewis, lees ons in die Proloog. Kato, ’n intelligente sewentienjarige, leerling by Solaris Internationaal deel nie sy onderwyser, meneer Flink, se geloof dat die klimaatbalans kan herstel nie. “Die harde feit is dat niks lewe nie en niks meer gáán lewe nie.” (p.21 e-boek)
Dit blyk dat Kato oor ’n spesiale vermoë beskik wat plantegroei kan stimuleer en woude herstel. Daarvoor word hy gewerf deur die IPN, Die Instituut vir Planetêre Navigasie, om te gaan “werk” in Uganda. Hy voel dat sy ouers hom opoffer ter wille van die planeet. (p.119 e-boek). Sy opstand daarteen en sy heimwee na die see van die Kaapse kom, gee aanleiding tot ’n spannende verloop van omstandighede wat hom uiteindelik by ’n belangrike morele besluit uitbring.
Wat die verhaal vir my onderskei, is dat daar wel wetenskapfiksie elemente teenwoordig is, soos hommeltuie, oktokopters en uberbotte, maar dit bly in essensie ’n verhaal oor mense en nie robotte nie. Weliswaar mense met uitsonderlike vermoëns, maar dit is heel geloofwaardig. Daar is familiebande, vriende, selfs troeteldiere.
Skrywer, Jacolet van den Berg, het haarself deeglik bewys as ’n sukses in die liga van jeugboekskrywers. Die Fluisteraar is sopas aangewys as naaswenner in die Lapa Jeugverhaalkompetisie van 2025, ’n prestasie wat sy ook in die 2024 kompetisie behaal het.
Daar is 'n onmiddellike konneksie tussen Elara en Marko, 'n lieflike liefdesverhaal
Na die intensiteit van Mariette Wenhold se Myner van my hart, het Felicia Snyman se nuutste Romanza, Harte in harmonie, gevoel soos ’n sagte bries. ’n Gemaklike, ongekompliseerde storie oor Elara Hartwell en Marko Roos. Totdat dinge naby die einde skielik skeef loop en albei partye in uiterste mistroostigheid beland.
Elara het ná ’n slegte ervaring met ’n man wat haar en haar oorlede pa uitgebuit het, die mansgeslag afgesweer. Sy is nie sosiaal nie en fokus net op haar werk as ouditeur. Marko is die broer van ’n sangeres en vriendin vir wie Elara liede skryf. Sy werk neem hom regoor die wêreld, maar wanneer hy vir Elara ontmoet verander sy prioriteite. Daar is ’n onmiddellike konneksie tussen hulle. “Toe ek jou by die ateljee gesien het, het die vreemdste ding gebeur. Dit was asof ek jou ken.” Hy gaan verder: “Skielik het ek ’n rede om te bly.” (p.21)
Die mooi liefdesverhaal word pragtig ingekleur deur ’n lied of twee wat sorgvuldig gekies is vir bepaalde tonele. Eintlik vat die lirieke die essensie van die storielyn perfek saam. Ek wil jou nooi om Elara en Marko se verhaal te lees en dan te luister na die liede.
As ek Mariette Wenhold se Myner van my hart in een woord moet opsom, sou ek sê dit is intens. Waarom sê ek so? Hoofsaaklik omdat die onverwerkte trauma waarmee Katarien Roos spook, veel erger is as dit wat mens normaalweg in ’n romanse teëkom. Ek het iets redelik aardskuddend begin vermoed toe sy nie by haar huis kan ingaan nie.
Haar volatiele geaardheid, wat ’n paar maal lei tot uitbarstings of onversetlike optrede, kan ook grotendeels toegeskryf word aan dit wat in haar verlede gebeur het en haar genoop het om Suid-Afrika te verlaat. Die skrywer gebruik hierdie element om deurentyd afwagting en spanning te skep deurdat die volle waarheid nie sommer vroeg in die storielyn onthul word nie.
Verder is die liefdestoneel ook nogal intens. Armand du Toit is ’n held waaroor menige romanseleser sal swymel. Hoewel Katarien haarself as “emosioneel onbeskikbaar” beskou (p.141) is hy presies die man wat sy nodig het om deur haar skanse te breek. Hy, en ’n predikant wat as berader optree.
Familiebande kry baie aandag in hierdie verhaal en die tienerseun laat mens sommer weer glo in die jeug. Tweede kanse, op enige ouderdom, laat ’n romantiese leser sommer goed slaap as jy die boek neersit.
Misverstande is volop in romantiese verhale. Dit gee vir ’n skrywer lekker materiaal om die storie mee te weef. Beslis só in Ballade van die liefde, die nuwe Romanza deur Mari Roberts.
Ons vind die hoofkarakter, Carli, in Botswana, waar sy werk by Die Park, ’n privaat wildtuin langs die Kgalagadi. Sommer uit die staanspoor is dit duidelik dat sy hier wegkruip, maar die wat en hoekom word nie sommer dadelik uitgelap nie. Daar is ’n lieflike dogtertjie betrokke en ’n oupa en ouma waarvoor sy baie lief is.
Die storielyn kry momentum wanneer ’n toergroep by die lodge aandoen en die rede vir haar jarelange wegkruipery, skielik voor haar staan. Mens wil aggressie te wagte wees, maar Ruben verras met vasberadenheid en geduld wat voortduur totdat al die misverstande opgeklaar is.
Die skrywer het goed daarin geslaag om spanning en afwagting te skep, en die gelukkige einde is besonder bevredigend. Knap gedaan, Mari.
