In "Empowering Children," R. Brian Howe and Katherine Covell assert that educating children about their basic rights is a necessary means not only of fulfilling a country's legal obligations, but also of advancing education about democratic principles and the practice of citizenship.

As a parent, Kathleen Boucher wanted her two kids to be happy and confident. For over fifteen years she has taught her two kids to follow the three principles in A Simple Idea to Empower Kids: Teen Edition with great success. Her mission is to inspire and motivate kids to follow their dreams.

Children's literature can be a powerful way to encourage and empower EFL students but is less commonly used in the classroom than adult literature. This text provides a comprehensive introduction to children's and young adult literature in EFL teaching. It demonstrates the complexity of children's literature and how it can encourage an active community of second language readers: with multilayered picturebooks, fairy tales, graphic novels and radical young adult fiction. It examines the opportunities of children's literature in EFL teacher education, including: the intertexuality of children's literature as a gate-opener for canonised adult literature; the rich patterning of children's literature supporting Creative Writing; the potential of interactive drama projects. Close readings of texts at the centre of contemporary literary scholarship, yet largely unknown in the EFL world, provide an invaluable guide for teacher educators and student teachers, including works by David Almond, Anthony Browne, Philip Pullman and J.K.Rowling. Introducing a range of genres and their significance for EFL teaching, this study makes an important new approach accessible for EFL teachers, student teachers and teacher educators.

This book is about how kids can use the Law of Attraction to achieve anything they want. It is unique because it uses the power of love, choice, and belief to teach the Law of Attraction. It will help all kids achieve anything their hearts desire.

Every woman considering divorce, or in the midst of a divorce, should be empowered to make intelligent, well-thought-out choices for herself, and for her children. In The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Divorce, noted psychotherapist Dr. Jill A. Murray and noted attorney Adam R. Dodge guide you through the key decisions involved in the divorce process, from making the initial decision to end your marriage, to going through the legal and emotional steps of divorce, and the challenges you may face in the aftermath. In this eye-opening and compassionate guide, you’ll learn: • To assess how your relationship has affected your body. • What you and your children deserve in your lives. • The seven legal rules of divorce. • To evaluate your legal and financial options. • Secrets of navigating the obstacle course in the courtroom. • How to tell your children you and your husband are divorcing. • Ways to help your children cope with the new reality of alternating between two single-parent households. • How to deal with custody and visitation issues. • To manage emotions such as anxiety, depression, and loneliness. • Strategies for healthy co-parenting with your ex. • How to ease back into dating post-divorce. If you’re going through a breakup, you’re not alone. Forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce. The Empowered Woman’s Guide to Divorce shares the voices of real women experiencing the same messy, confusing, and at times, exciting milestones. In clear and easy-to-read language, it helps you answer every question you didn’t know you had about divorce until now.

(sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG) Promising Practices to Empower Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities. In order to insure that every child is receiving the most appropriate educational program, these practices should be included in teacher and administrator preparation program throughout every county, state, and province. Every site administrator, school counselor and special education teacher should have a copy of this book at one’s fingertips for ready reference. Suggested practices include activities for parent organizing, parent education, ways to provide co-mentoring of families, and formal support at Individualized Education Program meetings.

The author offers practical applications for the social worker and client at the micro-, mezzo-, and macro-levels. Eye-opening case studies are provided for each age group and cover everything from defining problems, identifying the underlying issues causing them, understanding the role of homophobia, and the application of the empowerment perspective.

This innovative textbook uses a problem-based learning (PBL) approach to cover content that is most common to child branch nursing courses. The evidence-based PBL 'triggers' are grounded in the reality of everyday contemporary nursing practice, and readers are engaged in an active learning process in order to develop key skills for clinical practice and life long learning. The book features individual chapters focusing on the different care environments that student nurses experience when caring for children, young people and families within health and social care. It is not necessary for readers to be undertaking a PBL structured course in order to use, and benefit from, this text.

These are challenging times, especially for leaders. Leaders need to supercharge their leadership skills to empower others to meet the demands of technological advances, globalization and rapid change. How do you become a more empowering leader? How do you supercharge your leadership skills to navigate these turbulent times? The answers can be found by tapping into 12 universal Core Values illuminated in this book. These Core Values are seeds of empowerment: Expanding Your Unique Gifts and Talents Manifesting Your Intention Augmenting Affirmation Cultivating A Sense of Mission and Purpose Balancing Head and Heart Manifesting Your Vision Mastering Visualization Maximizing Expectation Boosting Intuition Honing Awareness Amplifying Your Higher Self Magnifying Openness As an Empowering Leader, you will also be able to take advantage of the gifts of: Synchronicity (Bonus Chapter 1) and Syntropy (Bonus Chapter 2). As you nurture these seeds of empowerment you will make better choices and increasingly become a more empowering leader-- a leader with supercharged leadership skills. Supercharged empowering leadership is the path to a better and brighter future for all of us.

This innovative and timely book examines the nature and meaning of 'empowerment' in child welfare and protection, using the family group conference (FGC) approach to decision making as an example. In response to the growing clamour for 'evidence-based practice', the book addresses the central question of how the idea of empowerment can be operationalised and evaluated. One of the aims of FGCs is to empower children and their families by enabling them more effectively to participate in the decision-making process and by affording them greater control over the outcomes of that process. Empowering practice? critically assesses the available evidence on the empowerment potential of FGCs and examines the implications of the approach for professionals, their agencies and the children and families involved. Empowering practice? is essential reading for academics and professionals working in a wide range of health, education and social care areas.