Caring For Kids

In Caring for Kids from Hard Places, Jayne and David Schooler discuss the reasons behind why children and teens sometimes exhibit potentially disruptive behavior. Together, they offer practical strategies on training, equipping and resourcing staff and volunteers to provide a responsive environment for children with behavioral challenges.

Empower your young listeners with uplifting environmental science that transforms them into real planet protectors. Instead of overwhelming facts, this gentle audio experience uses playful imagination and simple language to explain big ecological ideas. Children are invited on an interactive...

Quick Practical Guide — From Problem to Solution. Simple. Actionable. Transformative. Raising a child with Down syndrome comes with challenges—but also deep joy, strength, and growth. You don’t need to have all the answers. You just need the tools to support your child’s development with love and confidence. 🌟 Caring for a Child with Down Syndrome is a compassionate, practical guide designed to help parents and caregivers navigate daily life with clarity and purpose. Inside, you'll discover: 🧠 What Down syndrome really means—beyond the diagnosis 🗣️ How to support speech...

Empower kids with an uplifting wildlife conservation journey that teaches them how to protect endangered species. Perfect for family road trips or homeschooling routines, this warm and hopeful audio experience transforms complex environmental topics into gentle, engaging lessons. Young listeners...

Empower young nature lovers with a hopeful wildlife conservation adventure that turns eco-anxiety into positive action. Perfect for family road trips or engaging bedtime learning, this gentle educational listen guides children through a giant global nature puzzle. Kids will explore diverse...

Give kids the tools to conquer big feelings and everyday anxiety with simple, calming emotional regulation strategies. This warm, engaging guide explains complicated inner struggles in kid-sized ways, making mental wellness as normal and routine as brushing your teeth. Perfect for peaceful...

Overwhelmed and overworked—and caring for kids who feel the same? We weren't made to live like this. It's time to start "rehumaning" our lives. Right now, kids and adults are trying to thrive amid the daily grind, addictive technology, crowded calendars, and rising uncertainty. It's an impossible task—and it's taking a toll. Bestselling author Stephanie Malia Krauss offers a lifeline.

A shipwreck. A mysterious island. And one cheerful, spotty dog who refuses to give up! Meet Dotty—a lovable dog who stays happy and hopeful even when life takes an unexpected turn. After surviving a shipwreck, Dotty washes ashore on an unfamiliar island. Where is she? Is she alone? How will she find her way home? Join Dotty through five entertaining short stories as she explores her surroundings, faces surprising challenges, and discovers what can happen when courage, kindness, and a positive attitude lead the way. Inside this illustrated children’s book: 5 fun short stories featuring ...

Bring the lessons of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood into the digital age, as this book helps guide parents to raise more creative, curious and caring kids—from the founder of the acclaimed education network Remake Learning. Playful and practical, When You Wonder, You're Learning introduces a new...

In this fascinating half-memoir, half-parenting guide, Lisa Katayama shares her quest to raise her American kids using Japanese parenting principles—combining unconditional love with unwavering rules. While Bringing Up Bébé introduced readers to the French way of raising obedient children...

Nothing could be more basic than food. However, food is only one part of the concept of nourishment, but it has consumed our focus and eclipsed something far more critical for thriving connection. We have lost sight of the fact that feeding our families is about human relationship and emotional well-being. In Nourished, developmental and relational clinical counsellor Dr. Deborah MacNamara shows us how feeding is part of the caretaking relationship and cannot be separated from it.

Kelly Oriard and Callie Christensen, early childhood experts and founders of the Slumberkins brand of characters supporting emotional learning, provide accessible products and tools for empowering kids to build lifelong emotional intelligence. Written for parents and caregivers, All Feelings Welcome helps you support children in noticing, naming, and welcoming all feelings through the everyday parenting moments and in the more challenging times when you and your child need support.

Unlock your child's potential with essential social skills that foster happiness, confidence, and lasting friendships. Strong social skills are vital for children’s success and happiness, enabling them to communicate their ideas, collaborate with others, and resolve conflicts peacefully.

You are holding everyone together. Your aging parent calls from across town or the next room. Your children need you fully present. Your job still expects everything. Your marriage — the relationship you keep meaning to get back to — runs mostly on logistics and exhaustion. And somewhere in the middle of all of it, you are quietly disappearing. You are the sandwich generation. And you are burning out. Held Together is the compassionate, clinically grounded, powerfully practical workbook that sandwich generation caregivers have been waiting for — a book that finally acknowledges the ...

Little Oliver Learns Good Manners is a gentle and heartwarming story that helps young children discover the beauty of kindness, respect, and everyday courtesy. Through simple moments and peaceful adventures, Little Oliver learns important habits like saying please and thank you, sharing with others, listening carefully, being honest, helping someone new, and showing kindness every day. Written in a calm, comforting style and filled with positive lessons, this charming story is perfect for bedtime reading and for families who want to nurture good manners and caring hearts. Perfect for ...

Every little step into nature can become a wonderful adventure. Join Little Oliver as he explores forests, gardens, meadows, streams, and star-filled skies, and discovers that there is something special waiting around every corner. Through fifteen gentle nature adventures, children will meet birds, butterflies, trees, animals, changing seasons, and the many wonders of the world around them. Along the way, Oliver learns that caring for nature, helping living creatures, and appreciating the Earth can be simple and meaningful. Little Oliver Learns About Nature is a warm and beautifully ...

Chompy the Shark: Fix-It Friends to the Rescue! 8 Silly Stories That Teach Confidence, Sharing, and Caring What if the bravest shark in the ocean wasn’t the scariest — but the kindest? Meet Chompy, a sweet, vegetarian shark with a big heart and an even bigger smile. Alongside his loyal friends — Jilly the jellyfish, Buzz the swordfish, Slick the seal, and Flashy the starfish — Chompy forms the Fix-It Friends, a team dedicated to helping solve everyday friendship problems under the sea. From learning how to share and take turns… to finding courage when things feel scary… to ...

Peter Pan and the Enchanted Friends A Gentle Bedtime Chapter Book About Imagination and Caring High above the Enchanted Forest, one bright star refuses to sleep. When Princess Aurora Daneen and her magical friends, Uni the Unicorn, Draggy the Dragon, Parroty the Parrot, and Lobsty the Lobster, follow its glow, they meet Peter, a boy who lives between dreams and morning. Peter’s world is full of laughter, golden skies, and endless wonder. Yet beneath all the sparkle, he hides a quiet worry: what if growing up means losing the magic inside him? Through their gentle adventures together, ...

Survive — and even laugh — your Sandwich Generation years, without losing your mind (or your sense of humor). Juggling kids, aging parents, and a busy career—and wondering if cloning yourself is your only option? Shuttling between school pickup, pharmacy runs, and group texts that never quit? Dealing with a moody teen while also getting “I’m fine” from a parent who clearly isn’t? If any of this hits home, breathe: you’ve found your people. The Sandwich Generation Diaries is your witty, down-to-earth companion on this wild ride. You’ll find field-tested tips, laugh-out-loud...

When Draggy the Dragon wakes to a soft rustling in Glimmerwood Forest, he finds a tiny hedgehog lost beneath the leaves. “Where do you live?” he asks kindly. “I don’t know,” whispers the hedgehog, “I can’t find my home.” With help from Princess Aurora Daneen and Parroty the Parrot, Draggy sets out to guide the little hedgehog through the forest — past ponds, burrows, and treetops, meeting new friends along the way. Together, they learn how different animals live in their own habitats, in the air, on land, and beneath the water, and why it’s important to keep those homes ...