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(Grades 3-12) Word of the Week: 36 Weeks of Focused Character Building provides school counselors and educators with an easy way to integrate character building into your weekly lesson planning. It features thirty-six different character traits and behaviors addressing the Common Core standards in English/Language Arts through daily writing prompts. Word of the Week is a creatively designed resource book that puts a year of character building at your fingertips.Each week's character word includes: - a focus word and its definition- an inspiring thought for the week- an engaging class activity- stimulating daily writing promptsThis book is an invaluable resource that provides thought-provoking activities to engage students' creativity and foster reflection, compassion, and integrity. Busy school counselors and teachers will appreciate its straightforward approach to character building. The activities are flexible enough for school-wide implementation or individual classroom application.

Are you an elementary school teacher or counselor who's been searching for time-saving ways to promote Red Ribbon Week? Want all your ideas and activities in one place? If so, look no further, this resource delivers! Celebrating Red Ribbon Week is an imaginative and efficiently designed book that provides every resource you need for a successful Red Ribbon Week program. With up-to-date information and practical, fun ideas, this book is a must-have that will guarantee an informative, fun-loving celebration.Book features include: Themes, contests, and easy-to-implement ideas for the weekWriting prompts and word searchesLesson plans by grade level: K-1, 2-3, 4-6The story behind Red Ribbon WeekOnline resources and websitesRecommended picture books to introduce Red Ribbon Week

Has your child been bullied by someone online? Have you found their self-esteem has been affected by things another has said about them on the internet? Some bullies act tough on the playground, and some bullies act tough on the computer. Bullies may act tough, but really, they're the weak ones. The good news is that cyberbullying, a now constant threat to the well-being of our children can be overcome. If your child has endured a cyberbully, then they are strong, and this activity book will help you help them remember that. Using Cyber Savvy, parents can work directly with their children (ages 6 to 10) as they work through their feelings of fear as well as learn how to deal with these feelings in appropriate ways and build their self-esteem. Withadorable cartoons to capture children's interestactivities designed to help children identify what a cyberbully has said online and how that targeted quality is actually something that makes them specialexercises to help them articulate their positive attributes and embrace themvisual journaling and art therapy that helps children focus on those who care about them most and translate the feelings for those people to feelings of safety and happinessdaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty-five activities in this book, your child will learn to process their feelings and identify the best in themselves while finding compassion for bullies. Get started today to help your child understand the reasons for cyberbullying and to remember the incredible awesomeness that lives inside them. What parents are saying "My ten-year-old daughter and her friends love to share their photos with each other online. I try to see which friends she accepts and chats with. I never expected that one of her own friends (after a big fight) would be the one to bully her. She didn't tell me about it for a couple of weeks but I noticed she was acting upset. I am so grateful Cyber Savvy to help her work through her feelings." "So many books out there teach us how to protect our kids from the Internet. I'm glad there's a book now to help them after being bullied online. We simply cannot monitor every minute of our child's day. Thank you so much for this workbook." "My eleven-year-old has always taken everything close to heart. He's very sensitive. This activity book has helped him see bullying behavior as not being about him at all, and I find that he's much more generous in his compassion than I ever would be for the kid who was mean to him online. I've learned as much as he has."

Has your family recently changed with the addition of stepparents or stepsiblings? Have you found that your child is jealous or resentful of the new family structure? Sometimes, children find themselves in blended families. Whether a child's divorced parent is remarrying or the child is moving into a house with another group of people, this can be a stressful and confusing time filled with many conflicting emotions. Twice the Love is an activity book for parents to help support children who are adjusting to a new blended family. Using Twice the Love, parents can guide their children (ages 6 to 10) through the changes that are brought about when new families are formed. Withengaging drawings to capture children's interestactivities designed to help them understand that their feelings are normal and that accepting the new family structure is not betraying the former family structureexercises to help them learn more about their new family and find things in commonvisual journaling and art therapy that helps children view their new family structure in a positive light while acknowledging the memories, good and bad, of how their family used to bedaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty-five activities in this book, your child will learn to visualize their new family structure in a helpful way and find ways to accept the changes while building their self-esteem. Get started today and help your child navigate the challenges of a blended family! What parents are saying "When my husband and I divorced our son who is ten stayed pretty quiet and didn't talk much about how he was feeling. When my husband remarried a year later our son began throwing tantrums and yelling at his new stepmother. His teacher recommended Twice the Love and my son and I use it as a special time each night to talk about his new family. It gives me the chance to show him that I am also working through the changes and that we can do it together." "I dated my boyfriend for four years after my divorce before we got married. My daughter, who is now eight, did not have trouble adjusting since she really doesn't remember when her dad lived with us. But we just had a new baby, and my daughter is very jealous. I don't think she would harm the baby, but she seems to want to pretend the baby isn't there. My husband is a middle school counselor and he got a copy of Twice the Love. We've been working in it together for two months now, and my daughter has started letting the new baby be part of her life. I am so relived. Thank you." "My twelve-year-old child has been very sad since I got remarried. He recently told me he had been hoping his dad and I would get back together but now he knew we wouldn't. We started talking about it more and working in this book together. It's been a wonderful journey for me and him together."

Has your child been disappointed by a parent's broken promise? Have you found that your child no longer trusts a parent will do what they say they will do? Is your spouse incarcerated or absent from your child's life? Sometimes people make promises they can't keep-even parents. What can you do as a parent to keep your child's trust when you or another parent has not kept their word or has let their child down? This activity book can help your children visualize their feelings in a way that makes sense and helps them forgive others when they let them down. Using Broken Promises, parents can work directly with their children (ages 6 to 10) as they work through their feelings of anger, disappointment, and mistrust as well as learn how to deal with these feelings in appropriate ways and build their self-esteem. Withengaging drawings to capture children's interestactivities designed to help them foster healthy coping strategies and a positive self-imageexercises to help them find appropriate ways to deal with their feelings and understand the true definition of forgivenessvisual journaling and art therapy that helps children focus on a parent's positive characteristics and remind them that there are safe people in their lives who will listendaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty-five activities in this book, your child will learn to articulate their feelings and identify the best ways to express themselves. Get started today and help your see child restore his or her faith in the people he or she loves the most and to remember that no matter what, he or she is an awesome kid! What parents are saying "My ex-husband promises our kids the moon when he can't deliver. He loves them so much and is afraid they will think he's abandoned them. They are having a very hard time understanding why their dad doesn't follow through on his promises. Our counselor handed me this book and we've been working in it together. The kids are really starting to understand that their dad really does love them even when he disappoints them and that he's having a hard time with all the changes in our lives too." "I want my little girl to have everything she wants and I just have a hard time telling her I can't do something she wants to do. Unfortunately, I keep disappointing her and she's started really acting out when she doesn't get her way. I'm working on being able to tell her no, but I'm so grateful for Broken Promises to help her know that she really is 'an awesome kid!" "My eight-year-old son loves these activities and has learned how to tell us when he's disappointed in something without resorting to tantrums. I especially appreciate the lessons in forgiveness."

Does your child perform well in school, study hard, and understand the material, but score poorly on tests? Have you found that your child expresses a lot of fear and perhaps physical discomfort just before a test? A lot of students experience test anxiety, which happens when nerves take over knowledge and causes kids to freeze up during an exam. This can be a source of great frustration for your bright, capable child. This activity book can help your child with this common problem and find ways to better prepare for exams. Using Outsmart Test Anxiety: A Child's Guide to Overcoming Test Anxiety, parents can work directly with their children (ages 6 to 10) to foster their positive self-image and create a practical pathway to overcoming test anxiety. Withengaging drawings to capture children's interestactivities designed to help them articulate their feelings and learn strategies for studying and test-takingexercises to help them find ways to appropriately express to you what you can do to help them feel more comfortable and less pressured when taking a testvisual journaling and art therapy that helps children explore feelings about exams and approach anxiety as imagined fears that can be combatted by realitydaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty activities in this book, your child will learn to find better ways to destress and more efficiently prepare for a test, identifying their own strengths and challenges. Get started today and show your child that you support them and are committed to helping them overcome test anxiety. What parents are saying "With so many formal test I've noticed my child has developed severe test anxiety. After my neighbor recommended this book, I have seen him become less stressed. His nervousness isn't completely gone, but he now can sleep the night before a test instead of getting sick to his stomach. I thank you and my son thank you." "My daughter is in the sixth grade and makes A's and B's mostly in her regular classwork, but she doesn't do as well on tests and always wakes up with a stomachache on the day of one. I didn't realize how much pressure I was putting on her when I thought I was cheering her on, but this activity book has helped her find the words to express how much we're adding to her anxiety. Thank you for creating this activity book that helps all of us." "My husband and I have tried to help our son study for his math tests, but we all just end up frustrated with each other. I was at my wit's end and his school counselor gave us Outsmart Test Anxiety and he has found ways to study without us making him. We are so relieved. Thank you for helping us restore some peace and patience."

Is your child a little down on him/herself? Have other kids laughed at her or made her feel small? Protecting a child's self-esteem and building their self-confidence is one of the most impactful skills a child requires to have a happy childhood. It's easy for kids to let these things get to them and make them feel unimportant. Kids care very much about what others think. While multiple people may tell them they're wonderful, it's the negative thoughts that often stick. This activity book can help parents work with their children to develop strategies for navigating negative situations and feelings. Using Somebodyness, parents can guide their children (6 to 10 years old) through the tricky landscape of self-esteem and helps kids learn to look beyond the negative opinions of others and start to build a positive image. Withengaging drawings to capture children's interestactivities designed to help them foster a positive self-imageexercises to help them learn to react to negative feedback in a healthy way while identifying the traits that make them uniquevisual journaling and art therapy that help children will learn how to use their strengths, and even their weaknesses, and to focus on them when developing goals and interacting with the worlddaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty-five activities in this book, your child will learn to connect with the things that make kids feel good about themselves. Get started today and help your child claim the totally unique and awesome individual that lives inside! What parents are saying "My kid is eight years old and has always been very sensitive. No matter how many times we tell him what a great kid he is, it only takes one negative comment to make him feel he's stupid. After we started working with a family counselor, we were given Somebodyness for us to work on as a family. I have learned that it's not enough for me to tell him he's awesome, he has to see the awesome things about himself with his own eyes. And the activities in this book have helped him identify those things without anyone telling him. We are so grateful for what this work has done for our family and our son.". "Somebodyness has done wonders for our eleven-year-old daughter's self-esteem and helped her walk through lots of negative things being said about her because of her stutter. Thank you so much. I can see the confidence building in her." "After my sister divorced her mentally abusive husband, I knew she and my nieces would need patience and love to help them all. As a teacher, I had recently started using Somebodyness with my third-grade class. I didn't really see how powerful it could be until my sister started using it with my nieces. Thank you!"

Has your child been bullied? Is he or she struggling with feelings of being weak or deserving of bullying behavior? Bullying is a serious problem that affects an increasing number of children each year. Whether verbal, physical, or both, bullying can severely undermine a child's self-esteem and even erode his/her hope for a better future. If your child is struggling with fear and low self-esteem because of a bully's behavior, this activity book can be powerful medicine to help your child decode the negative messages he or she has been receiving. Using Beyond Being Bullied: A Resiliency Activity Book, parents can work directly with their children (ages 6 to 10) as they explore opportunities to express feelings about being bullied and find their own unique superpowers. Withfun visuals to engage children and draw them invisual journaling and art therapy that helps children on a journey toward empowerment, forgiveness, and self-acceptanceexercises to help them treat themselves and others with kindness and offer support to friends who may also be experiencing bullyingactivities designed to reinforce self-esteem and find empathy for the underlying issues a bully may be experiencingdaily reflection journal to implement what they've learnedBy spending just ten minutes a day engaged with the more than thirty activities in this book, your child will learn to build his or her self-esteem and articulate the unique characteristics that make him or her special. Get started today and help your see child his/herself as a superhero who is well-equipped to deflect negative messages and emerge even more resilient. What parents are saying "My nine-year-old daughter was being bullied on the school bus. I didn't know at first and was so frustrated when she kept getting to bus stop late and I had to take her to school. I knew something was wrong and she finally admitted that another girl who was two years older was making fun of her. I did some internet research and came across Beyond Being Bullied and we've really enjoyed working together and looking at all the wonderful things about her. She still isn't happy about riding the bus, but she feels much more confident and is able to tell me when she's just not comfortable enough to ride to school." "Thank you so much for this valuable resource. It's been helpful with our son since he started being bullied in fourth grade this year. He's really been able to take those negative messages and turn them around." "My wife and I have been very worried about our eleven-year-old son. He has mild autism and finds it difficult to make friends. As we all know, some kids can be cruel, but this book has helped him really explore feelings he has difficulty getting in touch with. He's also learned how much he likes to write and I think it's given him such a wonderful skill and way to learn more about his own and other people's feelings."

Tweens today have a hard time trying to figure out how to make it all happen in their lives. They are pulled in too many directions and feel like there are too many demands on their time. All of this is happening during the most sensitive and difficult years of their lives: The transition years from preteen to teen, which roughly covers ages 9-12. It can leave tweens and their families feeling helpless and hopeless. But there is a better way!Child education and counseling expert Erainna Winnett brings more than 20 years of experience in teaching, counseling and raising children to the challenges tweens face. Written in a conversational style and filled with real tips and strategies, Tween Time will help any tween become more successful in school and at home while still finding time to just be a kid.Tween Time covers the following topics: - Optimal Organization- Finding Time for Fun-Time- Homework Help- Study Tips- Test Prep"Whether it's taking the test of life or the next math exam in school, Tween Time empowers tweens with the tools they need to pass them all with flying colors!""This book will help any tween make a smoother transition to being a teenager by giving them the tips and strategies they need to succeed academically.""In her two-book Tween Success series, Winnett calls the shots with expertise about what it takes to be a successful tween in the 21st century."Also available for Kindle