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Books > Health, Home & Family > Family & health > Advice on parenting > Child care & upbringing > General
This guide offers one hundred free or low-cost educational
activities that inspire children age six and up to explore the
world God made. 100 Ways to Motivate Kids offers challenging
projects and activities for children ages six through eighteen to
engage with the world in relevant, creative, faith-based, and
educational ways. Dividing this guide by age group and subject
area-covering math, nature, world cultures, and more-Julie Polanco
includes fresh ideas that help develop twenty-first century skills
through fun, developmentally appropriate experiences. In addition,
100 Ways encourages community involvement, a love for the
environment, and an entrepreneurial spirit. There is no need to buy
expensive kits or subscriptions because this pocket-sized book
covers the same STEAM principles (Science, Technology, Engineering,
Arts, and Math) at a fraction of the cost-and includes the
humanities.
'Primarily aimed at adoptive parents, but of considerable use to
foster carers of young children, this publication approaches
attachment and developmental issues arising when even the smallest
child is in your care. Extremely well researched, it offers
practical, sensitive guidance through the dark areas of separation,
loss and trauma in early childhood. It reassures that no problem
faced as a result of your child's early experiences is
insignificant or undeserving of a solution. Neither is the reader
patronized by assumptions that some matters should already be
common knowledge. Archer sets out purposefully to encourage
confidence and thereby to enable enjoyment of the young life in
your care, confessing this to be the book she herself would have
welcomed 20 years ago.'
'A 'must have' book for both adoptive parents and for those
professionals who help adoptive families forge new family ties. The
author, herself an adoptive parent, addresses a wide variety of
very complex topics with a marked sensitivity to the varying needs
of children who may have had a wide range of early life
experiences. Although in general the text is easy to read and
understand, there is a glossary for those who might be unfamiliar
with some of the terminology. References are made to well
established issues as well as to some of the newer research on the
impact of early abuse and neglect on brain development. I
particularly appreciated the special focus on identifying abnormal
arousal patterns and helping the child with these. Parents and
professionals alike will value the specific ideas provided for
coping with problem behaviors and for building closer family
ties.'
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