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Kids and Their Quirks: Poems We Can All Relate To is a compilation of endearing and humorous poetry written with the sarcastic wryness of an author who has experienced the ups and downs of growing up with growing pains. These poems reminisce on such difficult adolescent subjects such as braces, school dances, crushes, holidays, video games, teachers, parents, pimples, classes, body odor and other awkward moments, always ending with a bit of a comic twist. Readers of all ages will be sure to relate these poems to their own experiences of adolescence, as well as be amused by the trials of these unfortunate youths! ... Read more

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Communication involves at least two people, the ?sender? of a message and the ?receiver? of that message.When the sender fails to get the message across, or the receiver does not understand it, ?miscommunication? occurs.Miscommunication is often the cause of parent/child conflicts, creating stresses and strains between family members.Parents who learn to be good communicators will not only strengthen family ties, they will also send their message efficiently and effectively ? without talking until they ?turn blue in the face.? ... Read more

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Love and LogicR Money-isms is a collection of wise words that capture the powerful and inspiring truths about raising financially responsible kids.If you would like to know how to:-Set limits without losing your children's love-Do what's best for your kids without feeling guilty-Do what's right in the short term to prevent future financial problems in the long term This book is for you!"Giving a child a credit card doesn't teach responsibility. Giving them a chance to earn one by demonstrating maturity and responsibility does."Testimonials:"Love and Logic Works like nothing I have ever seen. I have a 13 year old son with mild autism and for us the Love and Logic program has worked brilliantly."- Brenda, Sacramento, CA"I can honestly tell you that bed time isn't a chore anymore. I'm glad that we've started using Love and Logic early in our children's lives."- Todd, Manitowoc, WI ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on August 5, 2002. The length of the article is 787 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Oh, those kids today. (On Marketing).(marketing strategies for teenagers)(Brief Article)(Column)
Author: Jim Karrh
Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 5, 2002
Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc.
Volume: 19Issue: 31Page: 7(1)

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In this clear and compassionate guide, an expert counselor offers help for parents dealing with the misbehavior of good kids. Here are step-by-step solutions for handling just about every explosive situation, plus advice on how parents can preserve their sanity. ... Read more

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Katherine Levine is the new Spock!
I read Katherine Levine's Parents Are People Too: An Emotional Fitness Program for Parents. She is the new Spock. Reading her book was like having an experienced, learned grandmother (who just happens to be up on all the latest research in child development and psychology) help with the nitty-gritty of dealing with all the negative feelings and stress being a parent creates. Her site, www.emotionalfitnesstraining.com offers all kinds of help in addition to this book. It's a must-see! ... Read more

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This practical two-book set is all parents need to comeup with the best possible Allowance system for their children.It isboth convenient and easy-to-follow.

This system uses an Allowance to teach kids to manage their moneyresponsibly.It is also used as a tool to encourage saving, sharingand appropriate gift-giving.This may sound like a lot for one authorto provide, but Kids' Allowances - How Much, How Often & How Come, AGuide for Parents includes tips and experiences from thousands ofparents, leading experts and Kids' Money editor, David McCurrach.

The second book - The Allowance Workbook for Kids and Their Parents -puts the system presented in Kids' Allowances into action.TheWorkbook is a joint effort between parent and child to customize theAllowance program to their child's need and the parents' own personalvalues.Investing in this set assures parents and kids alike will getthe most from their Allowance dollars. ... Read more

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Not The Best Money Guide For Youngsters
I was very disappointed with this money guide for children. It is probably more suited for late teens, but certainly not for "kids". Some of the concepts are too detailed and difficult to understand and the format presentation makes for difficult reading.

Awesome
This product has very few pages, yet it is one of the most concise and clear cut plans for teaching your kids about money via an allowance.I love this book.

A Good, Clear Method
I found this book to be a very clear approach to helping kids manage money. The examples are good, the worksheets are clear and the text is direct and easy to understand. We showed it to our 13 year old daughter and she was excited about it and couldn't wait to get started.

If anything is missing its that the background information is minimal or absent. For example, the author states that some parents choose to pay their children to do chores or make good grades and ends that brief discussion with the statement that it simply doesn't work. Its clear therefore, that the author chose to focus strictly on the mechanics of the allowance system and since you can find more detailed background about parenting styles and philosophy elsewhere it isn't a big detractor.
Reading the book brought to light the need for me to make many decisions about the different categories of money. You don't just decide to give you child x dollars, you must decide how much for spending, how much for saving, how much for gifts to friends and family (birthdays holidays, etc). Parents are shown that they can and should make age appropriate decisions for the child relating to money. Parents can elect to not include some categories for their child. For example, a portion of the allowance might be for clothing which you would likely give to an adolescent but probably wouldn't give to a 5 year old.

The author encourages you to involve the child in the decision process and the format and tone of the book clearly would appeal to kids.

Great ideas, confusing presentation
The workbook is packed with great worksheets, tips and examples, but is presented in a very confusing manner. The explanations in the beginning pages of the book are very helpful, but once I arrived at the second worksheet page where you figure percentages, I started to get confused, because apparently, info from later in the book is needed to complete the page. It took 2 adults looking at it to work it all out, but now that we have the whole picture, we can make this work for us. This plan is much better than the divided piggybank type plan, where you just plunk coins into the spending, saving, charity sections, that sort of thing. Having said the above about being confused, I'd still recommend it, and would just explain where to find the needed information. Basically, if buying this, read the entire book (not a huge book) before embarking upon this new plan.

Adapt the ideas to your own family needs...
This book is a tool to be adapted to each parent's needs. In fact the book is a tool that shows you how to use "allowance" as a tool to teach kid money management.

The goal is to teach your child money management before they leave home. Let them make mistakes now, while you can be there to advise and assist them.

You provide an allowance to your child along with a requirement for your child to pay for some of their own expenses. (In a sense it is a wash for the parents.) You give your child the power to make spending decisions and as a result, you give your child the chance to make mistakes.Allowance in this book is NOT free money because there are restrictions on how your child should spend the money received.(Charts and ideas for restrictions are provided.)

If you use the rules in this book to set up an allowance plan, suddenly your child will have to choose between spending money on a movie with friends or buying a gift to attend an upcoming birthday party.That is what the book is about, teaching responsibility and how to make good choices (or suffering the consequences of poor ones).

If you are like me, and don't believe in allowance, you can still use the rules in this book to set up a spending plan with your child. Since there is no allowance, the child's money will have to come from gifts or a job like babysitting, lawn mowing, cashier, etc. This book can be ideal for a child who just began working! It will be a little more challenging for you because you will have to convince your child they should pay for a percentage of their own expenses. I told my children, "Everyone in this house who earns an income or has access to money (if money comes from gifts), must help contribute toward their own expenses."Kids think twice when it is their money being spent!

Whether money is from allowance or other means, using the guidelines in this book will help your child learn how to make the right (or wrong) financial decisions before they leave home!

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Become an Online Adventurer by Teaching Internet Marketing To Kids (8-15). This report will show you how to do it. Do You Want to Learn How to Make Lots of Money? Want to Make Cash From Using the Internet? You’re Not Alone.
Sure, you might not be a businessman or woman with a lot of experience andmay never have had a job before, but that doesn’t mean you can’t begin to make money from the comfort of your computer.
People all ages are making money from marketing online – and it’s a lot simpler than it might seem. While you might be able to play video games and chat with your friends online, wouldn’t it be more fun to make some money while your computer is on?Think about it, no more asking for money to do anything since you’ll already have the cash. You don’t have to be a certain age in order to be rich, you know.
All you need is a sense of adventure and the attitude of a superhero to make sure you’re the one who’s winning the online battles. Don’t believe you can do it?You can. You just need the tools to get started and all the information you may need is inside this report.
TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1 GETTING STARTED, 2 A SUPERHERO NAME, WHY YOU NEED A GOOD NAME, You Will Be Noticed, You Will Be Remembered, People Will Talk About You, YOUR DOMAIN NAME, What Is Your Domain?, Picking Your Domain Name, Buying Your Domain, WAYS TO BRAND YOURSELF, 3 YOUR TRUSTY PARTNER, THE BASICS OF WEBHOSTING, CHOOSING THE BEST WEB HOST, Price, Traffic Control (AKA Bandwidth), Customer Service, Reliability, Security, Reputation, Flexibility, WHAT ABOUT WEB DESIGN?, Finding Website Builders, What To Include On Your Website, Make A Website Right Now, How To Scare Customers Away, OTHER HELP YOU NEED, Website Designers, Writers For You, Your Own Contact Team, 4 MAKE A NAME FOR YOURSELF, How Search Engines Work, Drive People To You, What You Can’t Do, Link Sharing With Others, Multiple Sites, 5SPREADING THE WORD, MARKETING 101, Why Market?, When to Market, Such A Thing As Too Much?, MAILING LISTS, Why You Need Them, How To Build Them, What To Avoid, AUTORESPONDERS, What To Say, Autoresponder Strategies, SALE LETTERS, Why You Need Sales Letters, Where To Send Your Letter, ARTICLES, What Do You Write About?, Where To Post Articles, THE LOCAL MEDIA, Newspapers, Television Studios, BLOGS, How To Create A Blog, What To Write, INFORMATION PRODUCTS, Why People Want Information, Write A Book, Write A Report, FREE GIFTS?, Stickers, Magnets, Pencils And Pens, FORUMS, Where To Go, What To Say, 6 DOES A HERO GET PAID?, WHAT ARE YOUR POWERS WORTH?, Make Your Payment Schedule, Why You Need To Get Paid, CHOOSING A PAYMENT SYSTEM, What A Payment System Does, How To Choose Your Payment System, Security And Payments, Different Payment System Options, ADWORDS, How To Sign Up, How To Maximize AdWords, A DONATION SYSTEM, Pay What You’re Worth, How To Set This Up, OTHER PAYMENT OPTIONS, 7 HAVE OTHERS TELL YOUR STORIES, GET OTHERS TO HELP MARKET, Recruit Your Friends, Ask Around, Make It Worth Their While, WHAT ARE AFFILIATES?, SETTING UP AFFILIATE RELATIONSHIPS, 8 YOU CAN TELL YOUR STORY, WHY SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING MATTERS, Benefits of Social Media, Tips And Tricks To Make Things Work, SOCIAL MEDIA OPTIONS, Facebook, Twitter, 9 ALL IN A DAY’S WORK ... Read more

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Good Medicine for Kids Who Are Hurting! Ministry Youth Groups: Help heal your group members (kids) hurts with these in depth plans and reproducible resources. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on May 12, 2007. The length of the article is 640 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Kids dig reading when teenagers help out; High school volunteers required for program.(City)
Author: Gale Reference Team
Publication: Winnipeg Free Press (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 12, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
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Yehudah Fine, family therapist and rabbi, is the author of Amazon.com's bestselling recovery title, "Times Square Rabbi." Based on his experiences on the streets of New York, the book describes his programs to encourage stronger family links. Fully returnable. ... Read more

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Discovering the Light
Had I not fallen, I would not have risen
had I not sat in darkness,
God would not have been a light for me.
~Midrash Tehillim Socher Tov, Psalm 5

Yehudah Fine is The Times Square Rabbi who can now be found spreading his message of hope on radio shows and in nationwide seminars. He works as a family therapist and lecturer and continues to share his wisdom with parents and teens across the country.

Finding the Hope in Lost Kids' Lives is the story of eight kids involved in the street culture in New York City's Times Square. Through the example of eight lives, he explores eight steps towards spiritual renewal. These stories can be read by anyone to encourage their own awakening and to give a pathway to hope for anyone trying to climb out of their own painful situation.

"While change at a profound level is rare on the street, nevertheless it does happen. And when you witness such a change, first was darkness and then came the light." ~pg. 4

You don't need to live on the street to hit an all time low in your life but the gritty lifestyles these kids lead exposes them to a world of danger and vulnerability. The first step in this book begins when the pain of life has become unbearable. An analysis of action follows along with a renewal in self-esteem. As the stories progress we witness a separation from an old way of living in order to embrace a new life. There are sad and happy endings, but all have a profound message of love and compassion.

~The Rebecca Review

Every parent should read this!
"Religion is for people who wish to avoid going to hell.Spirituality is for people who have been there."So wrote Abraham Twerski, founder of Gateway Rehabilitation Center, in his cover blub for Yehudah Fine's book, "Time Square Rabbi."Rabbi Fine (who prefers to be called "Yehudah") has that rare balance of religion and spirituality, combined with a down-to-earth love of sports, music, and life itself, that enables him to reach lost teenagers on the mean streets of New York.

His writing style is clear and poignant, combining good descriptive details with well-written dialogues.Each story illustrates one of the 8 steps in a recovery program that Yehudah has developed, based on the writings of Maimonides.Although the characters and stories are composites (to protect the kids' privacy), they are so well done that they virtually leap off the page.

Every parent should read this book.Yehudah pulls no punches about how these kids ended up on the streets.For many, it was an escape from unbearable home situations.In other cases, the parents kicked their kids out of the house with no idea what would happen to them out there.In still other cases, kids from "good homes" set out with high hopes and unrealistic fantasies, only to be victimized by the predators that roam "The Way Beyond."That's Yehudah's name for the street culture that exists in the same physical space as up-scale Manhattan, but in a different world entirely.Like real life, some of these stories have happy endings, others do not.But all of them will make you think.As the subtitle says, this is a book about finding hope.

MOVIE RIGHT SIGNED FOR BOOK
Special News:For all of you who have enjoyed reading Yehudah's book, Times Square Rabbi-Finding The Hope In Lost Kids' Lives (Hazelden) there is some exciting news.Yehudah just signed a movie/tv rights contract for his book.Pamela Hayden,one of the voice stars of the TV show, the Simpsons, purchased the rights to his book.

A Hidden Treasure
I never thought I would read a heart pounding thriller based on a real life rabbi and gripping inspirational tales from the street. Want to learn about life after midnight in NYC, then read this book.It reads like a noveland yet is a true tale of NYC street life.Why this book is not abestseller is beyond me.This is a powerful book that features true tolife stories of teens caught in the web of drugs, prostitution, familyviolence and world that does not care.In that world walks Yehudah Fine, areal time hero whose human side is so real and vivid you feel after readingthe stories in his book that you know him and the kids who he loves andcares about.This is a one of a kind read that will give you hope springingfrom the darkness forever. It will inspire you and make you cry.

Caring can produce profound transformation
The message Yehudah Fine brings to parents and teens in his book is that even when a teenager's life is in crisis, caring can produce profound transformation. The author's unique street experiences opened up a windowinto the world of disconnected teens.Fine's message should resonate inevery home. ... Read more

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Learn The Steps to Taking Control Over The Horrible Modern Trend Of Obesity In Children Today! ... Read more

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Don't waste your time and money on fad diets that never work...Instead, grab the only source of quality information on teen

weight loss done the right way!

Two Of The Main Benefits to Helping Your Teen Lose Weight

1) A decrease in the likelihood of health risks

Sutdies show that being overweight plays a major role in health risks such as heart disease, respiratory problems, hormonal

imbalances...and several more. Are you willing to risk your teen's future health?

2) Increased self esteem, leading to an improvement in overall lifestyle

Self esteem plays an important role in today's society, and being overweight can have a serious effect on your teen's mental well

being. Your teen is far likelier to excel in adulthood if they are at or below their recommended body mass index. Is your teen's

success in the future at risk due to being overweight now?

Here is what you will learn inside this guide....

* What are the psychological issues for overweight teens? In this chapter, you'll learn all about the mental issues that need to

be considered. To your teen, the weight may not even be a thought...which makes this an even more difficult situation to approach.

Do you know how best to handle it?

* How do you go about parenting an overweight teen without creating more problems? Sometimes, saying, or doing the wrong

thing could make matters worse. It takes just the right amount of parenting to handle this delicate situation.

* How can teens lose weight safely and quickly?We'll reveal the safest, and fastest ways for a teen to lose weight quickly. One

thing you never want to do, is to jump on one of the "fad" diets. The actual best way may be surprising...

* How worried should you, as a parent, be about your teens weight? It's normal, and appropriate for a parent to worry about

their teen being overweight. But just how worried should you be? We'll break it down, and reveal the best course of action.

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This transformative book shows parents how to reduce their stress with their children and have their kids WANT to do what their parents would like. The book is unique because its approach is totally noncoercive, yet not permissive. People who use the author's unique approach reduce stress for all involved, promote responsibility, improve relationships, become more effective, and continually find parenting a joy. Disagreements are easily handled, impulsive behavior is eliminated, and conflicts even between siblings are significantly reduced. ... Read more