Kid Talk

You Can Stop Fighting With Your Chidren! Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know–how you need to be more effective with your children and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down–to–earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Their methods of communication, illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action, offer innovative ways to solve common problems.

A collection of personal stories, knowledgeable explanations, and supportive advice written by a fourteen-year-old autistic boy to help provide readers with the confidence and tools necessary to befriend autistic kids.

"New stories & strategies based on ... 'How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk'"--Cover.

Do you have a grieving child in your life? Are you a caring adult wanting to help? Are you looking for healing activities and the language to use to explain them? Bundled together, KID TALK and OUR STORY give you over 100 creative activities and games, including the memory book, lesson plans, supplementary materials, and additional resources. Used in public schools and hospice settings over 20 years, the curriculum was recently expanded to be faith-based for use in a church setting with the goal of helping a child know God better and trust Him more. The format and content are proven successful. With KID TALK and OUR STORY, you can create interactive sessions with confidence that you are using time-tested exercises that work for the setting and profile of your child or children. Directions explain each activity with kid-friendly words. You will be able to help a child (or children) better understand and process his or her grief, diminish fear of grief itself, and normalize the grieving process. You will have multiple ways for the child to express his or her love for the decedent: memorialize. The pages in Our Story can inspire family conversations and doing griefwork together. The memory book can be a healing tool for the child to return to when his or her grief recycles in adolescence. Two books for the price of one. Purchase of the book entitles you to 25 exclusive downloadable PDFs at www.kidtalkgrief.com. These books are what you need to meet a grieving child's need for comfort, understanding and support.

Do you want to help a grieving child? OUR STORY: A MEMORY BOOK for _____ is 38 pages of exercises designed to enable a child to navigate their grief, tell their story, and better understand and express their grief. It is an interactive tool you can use to help a child learn, heal, and grow. As you do griefwork together, you are building a healing relationship that moves the child through the grieving process. Each page can become a springboard for conversation, promoting griefwork as a family around topics like 'Favorite Things,' 'An Acrostic for ____,' 'Toilet Bowl Love,' and 'Treasured Memories.' Pages like 'My Silent Hurting Heart,' 'My Grief Bundle,' 'The Behaviors of Grief,' and 'How My Family Has Changed' increase understanding of the grief experience. Detailed instructions for each page of OUR STORY are found in Kid Talk A FAITH-BASED CURRICULUM FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN. For this reason, the two companion books are printed as one. Kid friendly language you can quote introduces over 60 more games and activities in the Kid Talk curriculum. They tip the balance of griefwork towards 'fun.' (Examples are popping corn without a lid when talking about anger, making 'pop-up puppets' who talk for you, the 'feelings vase magic,' blowing 'love bubbles,' and 'Kid Talk Jenga.' With a completed OUR STORY memory book, a child no longer needs to worry about forgetting the person who died. The memory book can also be an invaluable support when grief recycles in later years. And it will, especially in adolescence. It will enable the child to do griefwork in the future by reconnecting with once-fresh feelings, memories, and perspective of their loss. It will continue to inspire healing conversations with family that are mutually beneficial griefwork. Griefwork heals. For your convenience, the OUR STORY MEMORY BOOK can also be purchased separately if you are working with more than one child.

1.3 The rights of parents

Parents of teenagers and young adults have enormous catching up to do to understand how sexting, internet porn, TikTok, and more have shaped sex for young people. Too often, parents wear blinders when it comes to the sex lives of their children. They hear the statistics—how 80% of college students have engaged in rough sex or how one in four teens have sent or received a sext—and think, “Not my kid.” Yes, Your Kid is the reality check parents need about what sex is like today—so they can better educate and support their tweens, teens, and college students. Combining insights from cutting-edge research, conversations with real students, and on-the-ground legal experience, Yes, Your Kid provides: An overview of key topics in sexuality, from communication and consent to pornography and rough sex, describing how things have changed Real-world legal stories illustrating today’s consensual sex pitfalls and clear tips for how to help your child avoid them Age-appropriate tools to talk with tweens and teens about bodies, puberty, technology, birth control, and consent Concrete advice parents can share directly with their children so that—if and when their children become sexually active with partners—they are more likely to have safer, consensual sex Inclusive sexuality education tips for parents of young people on the autism spectrum Authoritative, supportive, sex-positive, and facts-forward, Yes, Your Kid provides parents with the frank, accurate information they and their children need to safely navigate today’s sexual landscape.

Young people in Israel write about their experiences dealing with personal problems, handicaps, fears, and relationships with parents and others.