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"9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You and Your Child"
For every parent who recognizes parenting as an important job. Offers 9 valuable chapters on raising children who are respectful, responsible, and resilient. Combining profound insights with practical ideas, this book will show parents how to encourage children to develop the courage to discover their own strengths and offer their gifts to others. The book is full of stories and examples that bring parenting tools and concepts to life.
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9 Ways Reviews Review by Marnie Agnew, KUCA News, Editor, in KUCA News Summer 2005/6. "I am a very slow reader, but I have been reading your book, 9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You and Your Child. I am so thrilled that I have finally found a practical realistic guide for my life. I have been really struggling in my marriage and with my children for the last 5 years now. In reading your book thus far, I believe any changes in my family ultimately must start with me. Thank you for publishing such a great book. I would really like to keep you up on my progress if possible. Once I completely finish the book, I am confident I will have a better handle on my life and my family will essentially have focus. Thanks again!" - Linda Pettigrew, Indianapolis "I find 9 ways to be the ultimate guide to creating and building a rich and meaningful relationship with my children, family, and even my work! Thank you, Maggie, for your inspirational stories and your “guilt-free” way to parenting! You have over-delivered on my expectations!” - Jane Campardo, Vernon BC Amazon reader review
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$19.95 +GST and shipping
9 Ways Family Workbook
9 Ways Family Workbook (also known as Participant’s Workbook) brings learning to life by providing experiential exercises that guide parents, families, and professionals in applying skills and concepts to everyday life. The workbook expands on concepts presented in the book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You & Your Child and gives you tools to:
- put your life into perspective and create what you want NOW
- Recognize and break free from unwanted parenting patterns you may have “inherited”
- Increase self awareness and take charge of your emotions
- Deal with anger and aggression in children
- Pro-actively coach children to develop the practical and social skills they need to succeed in life
- To release and prevent stress through activity and relaxation exercises
- Stimulate discussion and invite parents to work together
- Improve communication skills in the whole family through exercises and games you can play together
- Create loving and trusting relationships
- Problem solve peacefully and teach children to resolve their own conflicts
- Increase self awareness and deal with your own difficult emotions
- Raise your child’s self esteem, reduce sibling rivalry, and encourage cooperation
- Discipline in ways that encourage responsibility and accountability, and discourage rebellion and resentment.
Throughout the workbook you’ll find self assessment and reflective exercises, quotes and discussion starters, tips and charts, and “Family Activities” that invite everyone to get involved and create the family life worth living!
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View sample pages: page 21, page 30, page 31, page43 |
$16.95 +GST and shipping
Or buy both the 9 Ways book with the Workbook!
$35.95 +GST and shipping
"Remembering De-Light!"
The perfect story and relaxation CD for you and your child!
“This charming and delightful tale is like a mirror that reflects back to us how we have lost our way in the world and how simple and easy it is to return to the true essence of who we are and what we are here for.”
Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
The story’s universal message appeals to all ages. Children and adults alike love the music and funky rhyming language, and it speaks loudly and clearly to the drama of teen life. Remembering De-Light has a way of working in our inner world long after we’ve listened to it, reminding us to act from our own inner strength and ward off peer pressure, regardless of what age we may be! In school or at home, it provides an ideal spring board to drama activities and other activities that stimulate imagination, creative movement, art, and listening skills while supporting emotional and spiritual well being.
- Childcare professionals tell me it is the perfect story and relaxation CD for their centre
- Moms, dads, grammas and grandpas find it’s a CD they enjoy listening to with their kids again and again
- Here’s what some teens have said about Remembering De-Light:
- Inspirational; makes you really think about if you’re shining or if you’re masking yourself; awesome!!!
- Creative; relative to everyday life, especially teenage life; interesting; Helped me realize others are like me.
- Helped me understand why some people are so mean. It’s because they are insecure about themselves.
Two relaxation journeys follow the story…one for bedtime, and a shorter one to help you relax and recharge for the day.
- Do your children experience anxiety and stress? Do you battle the bedtime blues in your home? The last 30 minutes before sleep has 40% more impact on our lives than any other time of day. Instead of battling with your child to stay in his bed, make this an extra special time to teach him how to relax. While you’re at it, take the time to relax yourself. It will create fond memories that will last a lifetime for both of you.
Years from now, your children will thank you as they remember where they learned to relax.
- My son inspired me to record this relaxation journey. When he was younger he experienced great difficulty falling asleep and each night I would lead him through the relaxation journey. Many years later, when he was in grade 12 and struggling with a physics course, he said, “You know, Mom, it’s a good thing we used to practice that relaxation exercise at bedtime when I was younger. I don’t know how I’d make it through this physics course without it!
- Another young friend of mine listens to the relaxation exercise every time she travels from one parent’s home to the other. Her parents are in the process of divorce, and she says it helps calm her give her strength, and the Remembering De-Light story helps her to understand some of her parents’ behaviors too!
You’ll love the way the music and words soothe and calm both you and your child as you relax and explore your inner self and come to experience the radiance of your own light!
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To listen to sample of the story click here: Remembering De-Light sample 2.46mb |
$18.95 +GST and shipping
Wee Bree & The Grand Shopping Spree
A delightfully rhythmic, fun to read and amusing story book gets you and your child talking about temper tantrums. Create magical moments chuckling along with your child as you read Wee Bree and the Grand Shopping Spree again and again! Fun to read and listen to, kids love the humor as they see Mom throwing a temper tantrum right there in the store!
- Use suggested questions and ideas as you read to invite meaningful discussion and increase your connectedness with your child.
- Improve your child’s ability to listen and to express ideas. Help him to develop the art of dialogue – a skill so essential to success and happiness.
- Help your child develop empathy as you explore the story from different points of view.
- Use suggested actions – or make up your own – to make the story even more fun and interactive.
Read it yourself or listen to the story on CD as you enjoy the musical accompaniment with it.
To read learn more about the book and CD, and to view samples, visit the Official Taking the Terror Out of Temper Tantrums website.
Wee Bree Book plus CD $21.95 +GST and shipping
Temper Tantrum Kit (Book plus CD and Activity Cards) $25.95 +GST and shipping
Combo Pack #1
9 Ways Book, 9 Ways Workbook, and Remembering De-Light CD $48.95 +GST and shipping
Combo Pack #2
9 Ways Book, 9 Ways Workbook, Temper Tantrum Kit and Remembering De-Light CD $74.95 +GST and shipping
9 Ways Leadership Training Kit
The 9 Ways Course is highly experiential, inviting participants to learn and work with skills and tools and to share learning and experiences. 9 Ways to Bring Out the Best in You & Your Child is designed to go beyond discussing what to do to practicing the skills it will take to do it! The level of participant involvement and activity makes the course fun and learning memorable.
9 Ways Leader’s Guide is a 93 page comprehensive, step by step guide to facilitating seven sessions that explore and apply the concepts within the book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You and Your Child. Although the guide is set up for seven sessions, the course allows for great flexibility and there are many ways to adapt the content to suit your group. For example, within each session there are templates to develop and explore several concepts. Facilitators can choose from a wealth of exercises most suited to their particular group. You may choose to explore only one concept in a shorter session, or to take much longer in working through each section.
In Part I of the Leader’s Guide, you’ll find specific instructions in how to create a safe and inviting atmosphere that welcomes participation, keep participants on track, encourage interaction, and deal with challenging situations. The guide provides self assessment tools, specific questions designed to draw out inner wisdom and learning, intervention techniques, tips for co-facilitators, and many suggestions for building group rapport and addressing resistance.
To view sample pages from part one click here: page 12, page 19
Part II of the guide takes each session and presents a step by step methodology to explore, develop, and practice the skills and concepts presented. Adapted from the Provincial Instructors’ Diploma program, the approach is designed to:
- Stimulate interest and discussion
- Evoke feelings and engage the heart as well as the mind
- Develop content (through the use of questions as much as possible, drawing out the participants’ knowledge)
- Practice skills that you want to develop
- Apply the skills and concepts in the home setting
- Evaluate effectiveness of learning and application
To view sample pages demonstrating this methodology in action click here:
page 72 , page 73
9 Ways Family Workbook (also known as Participant’s Workbook) brings learning to life by providing experiential exercises that guide parents, families, and professionals in applying skills and concepts to everyday life. The workbook expands on concepts presented in the book, 9 Ways to Bring out the Best in You & Your Child and gives you tools to:
- put your life into perspective and create what you want NOW
- Recognize and break free from unwanted parenting patterns you may have “inherited”
- Increase self awareness and take charge of your emotions
- Deal with anger and aggression in children
- Pro-actively coach children to develop the practical and social skills they need to succeed in life
- To release and prevent stress through activity and relaxation exercises
- Stimulate discussion and invite parents to work together
- Improve communication skills in the whole family through exercises and games you can play together
- Create loving and trusting relationships
- Problem solve peacefully and teach children to resolve their own conflicts
- Increase self awareness and deal with your own difficult emotions
- Raise your child’s self esteem, reduce sibling rivalry, and encourage cooperation
- Discipline in ways that encourage responsibility and accountability, and discourage rebellion and resentment.
Throughout the workbook you’ll find self assessment and reflective exercises, quotes and discussion starters, tips and charts, and “Family Activities” that invite everyone to get involved and create the family life worth living!
Click here to view sample pages: page 21, page 30, page 31, page43
Two DVD’s are provided with the Leader’s Kit. The DVD’s are intended as study resources and references for facilitators presenting two fundamental concepts of the 9 Ways Course: Developing a Vision Statement and Understanding the Circle of Self Esteem. Using the Leader’s Guide and the DVD’s facilitators will be able to better understand and facilitate the learning of these two concepts.
Click here for samples from the DVD’s:
- Intro to Circle of Empowerment 665kb
- Body Language 4.21 mb
- Power Struggles: sampleA 2.88mb, sampleB 3mb, sampleC 2.7mb
"Remembering De-Light!" is the perfect story and relaxation CD for you and your child! It is also an integral part of the 9 Ways Course as it stimulates discussion and provides a springboard for activities in the final session. The relaxation exercises may also be used throughout the course to help parents learn to reduce stress.
The story’s universal message appeals to all ages. Children and adults alike love the music and funky rhyming language, and it speaks loudly and clearly to the drama of teen life. Remembering De-Light has a way of working in our inner world long after we’ve listened to it, reminding us to act from our own inner strength and ward off peer pressure, regardless of what age we may be! In school or at home, it provides an ideal spring board to drama activities and other activities that stimulate imagination, creative movement, art, and listening skills while supporting emotional and spiritual well being.
“This charming and delightful tale is like a mirror that reflects back to us how we have lost our way in the world and how simple and easy it is to return to the true essence of who we are and what we are here for.”
- Jack Canfield, co-author, Chicken Soup for the Soul
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