Marriage Coaching is an essential book for any couple motivated to heal, strengthen or protect their own marriage and interested in helping other couples. It is written by a Master Coach and Master Coach Trainer with a background in Professional Clinical Counseling and his wife of 26 years who has helped to develop Marriage Coaching for their own relationship and to help couples globally. It is filled with stories from their own marriage and work with other couples. Part I presents the uniqueness of Marriage Coaching and illustrates how a couple can learn to coach their own marriage. Part II details the core skills of the process that includes loving listening, curious asking and effective goal-setting. A step by step process is laid out for couples to set goals for their relationship that they are motivated to achieve. The book concludes with an exhortation for couples to help other couples as a way to enrich the purpose of their marriage even while they enjoy abundant hope, pleasure and purpose in their own marriage. A bonus chapter provides practical help to couples in crisis. Marriage Coaching is a great introduction to a proven method couples can use to build a great marriage and to help other couples.

Operating on two levels, this book aims to help students and practitioners understand how to plan and use time effectively within the foundation stage setting. The book examines how children learn and play at different times of day, how they fiction when they might be tired or hungry and how best to organize the learning day with this in mind. The authors discuss the issue of environment, how children relate to different areas within their own room, and what happens when routines of time and place are altered. The book also discusses how to develop children's understanding of time and how to incorporate the theme of time into children's play. The book includes: practical activities and examples that will allow children to fully comprehend the concept of time advice on how to create time for children to learn through play, inquiry and investigation sections on how time can be used to include parents, colleagues and the local community. This book provides in-depth analysis of how effective use of time can be beneficial for parents, children and staff in early years setting.