Life Skills/Social Skills
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Susan Scott Fierce Conversations (Revised and Updated): Achieving Success at Work and in Life One Conversation at a Time
To succeed, one must transform everyday conversations employing effective ways to get the message across. In this guide, which includes exercises and tools to take you step by step through the Seven Principles of Fierce Conversations, Scott teaches readers how to: Overcome barriers to meaningful communication, Expand and enrich conversations with colleagues, friends, and family, Increase clarity and improve understanding, Handle strong emotions-on both sides of the table.
$27.99
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Earl Hipp Fighting Invisible Tigers: Stress Management for Teens
This revised edition teaches teens proven techniques and stress management skills to face the rigors of growing up. Packed with useful information on how stress affects physical and emotional health, readers will learn smart approaches to handle decision-making, easy steps toward greater assertiveness, time management skills to avoid feeling pressure, how to avoid online drama, relaxation and mindfulness exercises to focus their mind, positive self-talk techniques and more! Getting rid of stress is impossible, but learning how to control the response to it can help teens develop healthier relationships, make better decisions, and outsmart those tigers.
$23.50
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Jeffrey Brantley, Wendy Millstine Five Good Minutes: 100 Morning Practices to Help You Stay Calm and Focused All Day Long
The book provides guided imagery, relaxation, mindfulness, and meditation practices-fun activities that relieve stress and create meaning and purpose in the reader's day. These practices help readers feel good, get motivated, and become inspired to change their lives for the better. Over time, these activities become guideposts readers will return to throughout the day, providing energy and inspiration when they need them most. In other words, the time readers of this book take for themselves in the morning might just be the five good minutes that change their lives.
$34.95
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Steve Herman Fix Your Dragon’s Attitude (My Dragon Books - Volume 18)
Having a pet dragon is very fun. But what do you do when he has an attitude? What if he would howl out loud as if he were in pain when things doesn’t go his way? What if he sees everything as negative? Classes are boring, having to brush his teeth while they’re falling out in a few years anyway, friends can’t play because they have homework to do, TV breaks when he needed it the most, and everything else is just again him! What do you do when your little dragon thinks the world is just out to get him? You teach him to adjust his attitude!
$21.95
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Four Agreements Cards
The 48 glossy cards in this deck provide a simple yet powerful code of conduct for attaining personal freedom and true happiness. Choose one when you have a difficult decision to make, are uncertain about something, or just need inspiration. A wonderful gift to yourself, and for someone close to you.
$25.99
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Patti Kelley Criswell, Stacy Peterson Friends (Revised): Making Them & Keeping Them
"Friends" is designed to help preteen girls learn how to make new friends, and make the most of the friendships they already have. It's full of quizzes, crafts, thoughtful advice, and true stories of friendship shared by real girls.
$14.95
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Signe Whitson Friendship and Other Weapons: Group Activities to Help Young Girls Aged 5-11 to Cope with Bullying
Long before most school programs begin anti-bullying campaigns, young girls are getting a full education in social aggression. Girls as young as age five are experiencing acts of bullying, disguised as friendship, that shake the carefully laid foundations of their self-image, personal values, and beliefs about peer relationships. Based on thought-provoking discussions, engaging games, strength-discovering exercises, and confidence-boosting fun, the hands-on activities in Friendship and Other Weapons build critical knowledge and friendship survival skills such as: Recognizing the Red Flags of Girl Bullying, Responding Assertively to Bullying Behavior, Realizing Personal Strengths, Becoming an Ally to Others Facing Bullying, Resolving Conflicts Directly, Using Technology and Social Media Ethically This photocopiable resource book provides educators, social workers and counsellors with a complete, ready-to-use group curriculum to help young girls aged 5-11 build constructive and fulfilling friendships.
$55.00
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Friendship Island Game Grades 1-4
Social skills needed for positive peer relations are some of the most important skills to be learned during elementary school years. This game focuses on the three vital areas of friendship - Making friends, Being a good friend, and Resolving disagreements in a win-win way. The game box contains two games. One is for grades 1 and 2, the other is for grades 3 and 4.
$89.50
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Friendship Play-2-Learn Dominoes
In this new game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning how to make new friends, be a good friend, and resolve conflicts in a win-win way. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. The Ups and Downs cards help players deal successfully with the inevitable problems that arise between friends. The Four W's cards deal with challenging friendship situations; each question starts with Who,
$42.95
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Charlotte Barkla, Jacqui Lee From My Head to My Toes, I Say What Goes
From My Head to My Toes, I Say What Goes! is a light-hearted exploration of boundaries, nestled in a fun and lively story. The book discusses consent and control for a young audience, through a story that is bold and beautiful, loud and proud. With the feel-good factor turned up to eleven, it also celebrates individualism, inclusivity and empathy.
$28.99
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Gaining Insight for Teens Cards
Our insights help us to know what we do well and in what areas we might do better. When we share these insights with others, we give voice to our strengths and weaknesses. Each of the 75 cards in this deck pose self-reflection questions that look at values, skills, and behavior. As a result of insights gained, opportunities for growth are explored. Ages: 13-Adults.
$40.95
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Gaining Insights For Adults Cards
Insight is a valuable asset. Our insights help us to know what we do well and in what areas we might do better. Each of the 75 cards pose self-reflective questions to the participants. The first question on the cards looks at a value, skill, or behavior and asks players to rank themselves on a 1-10 scale. The next three questions on the card delve deeper into the issue, providing new ways to look at oneself. As a result of insights gained, opportunities for growth are explored. Complete instructions include group process suggestions. 75 cards, instructions.
$40.95
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Joseph V. Ciarrochi, Louise L. Hayes, Ann Bailey Get Out Of Your Mind And Into Your Life for Teens: A Guide to Living an Extraordinary Life
This book brings essential skills to teen readers, presenting a comprehensive acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), positive psychology, and emotional intelligence plan for moving past depression, anxiety, unhealthy behaviors, and simple self-doubt. This engaging book follows the journey of the characters Jess and Sam as they learn to control their impulses and focus on becoming the captains of their own ship. Readers come to see their dreams clearly and take steps to make them happen, even though these actions may risk criticism from others and cause them to feel temporarily embarrassed or afraid. By learning that feelings do not need to be translated into actions, teens learn to see their lives in the long term and gain self-control and emotion regulation skills that will serve them well as they move into adulthood.
$34.95
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Judy Galbraith, Jim Delisle Gifted Teen Survival Guide
Support the social, emotional, and educational needs of gifted students with the fifth edition of The Gifted Teen Survival Guide, a one-of-a-kind book full of sage advice to help teens understand themselves, relate well with others, and reach their potential in life.The fifth edition continues to be the ultimate teen guide to thriving in a world that doesn't always support or understand high ability. Based on surveys from more than 1,400 teens, The Gifted Teen Survival Guide covers the topics that gifted teens want and need to know about. Full of surprising facts, cutting-edge research, revealing quizzes and survey results, step-by-step strategies, inspiring quotes and stories, and insightful expert essays, the guide gives readers the tools they need to appreciate their giftedness as an asset and use it to make the most of who they are.The fifth edition has been revised to meet the needs of gifted students today, including:- The thinking about twice-exceptionality and multiple intelligences- Terminology of autism spectrum disorder- Equity in gifted programs and underserved gifted students- Homeschooling- Gender and sexuality- Mental health- New research findings about brain development in gifted teens- Sections on concepts such as mindfulness, meditation, introversion, and intensities- Exploration into school-related topics, such as online schooling, taking a gap year after high school, going to college, and finding scholarships- Up-to-date guidelines for socializing online and using social media
$41.95
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Girl Games: Five Fun Card Games for Girls That Teach Important Social Skills
The 5 games are played similar to the traditional card games which makes them fun and easy to play. Cards include different topics with thought-provoking questions that can help facilitate meaningful discussions. Each card game focuses on one aspect of bullying or relational aggression. 1. Crazy Dates (Crazy Eights) Respect; Appreciation; Support; Safety; Trust; Put-Downs; Ignoring; Feeling Uncomfortable; Pressure; Fights; Control; Possessiveness 2. Queen of Mean (Old Maid) Lying; Gossip; Fights; Bullying; Rumors; Best Friends; Exclusion; Jealousy; Secrets; Accusations; Put-Downs; Violence 3. Peace Not War (War) Peaceful Relationships; Self-Improvement; Affirmations; Self-Reflection; Consequences of Rumors; Helping Others; Looking at Accomplishments 4. Confidence Concentration (Memory) Body Image; Likes & Dislikes; Hobbies; Difficulties; Goals; Achievements; Pride; Appearance; Strengths 5. Go Talk (Go Fish) Emotions & Communication; Accusing; Defensiveness; Emotions; Adult Helpers; Conflicts; Listening; Patience
$29.95
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Karen Rayne, Ramsey Beyer GIRL: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You
This book is an inclusive growing-up guide for teen girls with information on gender and identity, dating and romance, relationships, and sex. It gives teen girls practical information that is uncensored, factual, and unbiased, and aims to help readers develop into responsible and informed adults and prepare them for healthy romantic relationships. This book also includes self-reflection questions, media resources lists, illustrations, and diary entries as additional supplemental materials. This book is unique in that it is accessible and nonjudgmental to all who self-identify as a girl.
$21.95
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Greater Me Cards
This conversational tool made up of 52 cards and accompanying guidance, helps young people build their advocacy skills by establishing their own strengths and needs. Organised into 10 categories, the cards cover additional needs, feelings and communication, how to seek help, and many more useful topics to develop resilience. There are around 150 questions which can be used flexibly by young people and facilitating adults, such as: What do I think I am good at/not good at? What support from other people do I think will help me manage on my own more easily? Who might I choose to speak to when things become too hard or difficult?
$51.95
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Jean Morrison, Christine King GROKit! Facilitation Manual: 150 Exercises, Games, Resources and Materials for Teaching and Learning Nonviolent Communication
A 280-page illustrated manual for teachers, group leaders, facilitators, counselors, and all those who are working with groups to improve communication, learn NVC, or just to connect with each other in fun and engaging activities.
$74.95
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Cheri J. Meiners, Elizabeth Allen Grow Strong!: A Book About Healthy Habits
Establishing patterns of a healthy diet, exercise, and sleep helps children stay physically active, make friends, learn well, and enjoy emotional health—all of which lead to greater happiness. Children’s health and confidence can increase as they become more aware of their own unique bodies and abilities, and as they incorporate the self-care principles presented in this warm and encouraging book. A section for adults includes advice for motivating kids and teaching about being healthy at home, at school, and in childcare.
$18.50
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Christine McLaughlin Growing Feelings: A Kids' Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends and Other Kids
A Kids' Guide to Dealing with Emotions about Friends and Other Kids Everyone likes the idea of "best friends forever," but friendships are complicated, and often involve dealing with difficult feelings. It's common to feel shy at a party where you don't know anyone, furious during an argument with a friend, or sad when a friend moves away. This entertaining and empowering book addresses a wide range of feelings, including worry, guilt, jealousy, compassion, and gratitude. Kids learn how to recognize the Feelings Story behind common friendship rough spots, demonstrating the links between events, thoughts, emotions, actions, and social reactions through the situational cartoons and understand how their reactions fuel or resolve relationship problems. Here is a nuanced perspective on feelings about friends that emphasizes how all emotions are useful. Kids learn how to empathize with others' reactions, as well as how to understand, manage, and communicate in healthy ways about their own feelings. Caring friendships are a protective factor for children's mental health. Giving kids the tools they need to deal with the feelings about friends is a powerful step toward protecting and improving their well-being. Ages: 6-12
$23.99
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Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Christine McLaughlin Growing Friendships: A Kids' Guide to Making and Keeping Friends
With research-based, practical solutions and plenty of true-to-life-examples of social skills in practice-presented in lighthearted humorous cartoons-Growing Friendships is a toolkit for both boys and girls as they make sense of the social environment around them. They will learn how to be open to friendship, choose kind friends, and most important, be a good friend. Ages: 6-9
$23.99
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Tatyana Barankin, Nazilla Khanlou Growing Up Resilient: Ways To Build Resilience in Children and Youth
Bouncing back from today's stresses is one of the best life skills children and youth can develop. Growing Up Resilient is a must-read for adults (including parents, teachers and front-line workers) who want to increase resilience in the children and youth in their lives.
$16.95
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H is for Healing Card Deck
52 Everyday Practices to Strengthen Children's Emotional, Physical, and Mental Well-Being H is for Healing is a soothing and powerful social-emotional learning (SEL) card deck that provides children with the language for mindfulness, self-compassion, and empowerment. Each card corresponds with a letter of the alphabet and introduces children to an affirmation or activity that will allow them to: Regulate their nervous system and find a sense of calm in the world; Connect to themselves and those around them; Uncover their delight, joy, and wonder. Together, we can teach our children that they are enough, they are loved, and they belong.
$29.95
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Loretta Graziano Breuning Habits of a Happy Brain: Retrain Your Brain to Boost Your Serotonin, Dopamine, Oxytocin, & Endorphin Levels
Get ready to boost your happiness in just 45 days. This book shows you how to retrain your brain to turn on the chemicals that make you happy. Each page offers simple activities that help you understand the roles of your "happy chemicals"--serotonin, dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphin. You'll also learn how to build new habits by rerouting the electricity in your brain to flow down a new pathway, making it even easier to trigger these happy chemicals and increase feelings of satisfaction when you need them most. Filled with dozens of exercises that will help your reprogram your brain, Habits of a Happy Brain shows you how to live a happier, healthier life
$22.99
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