The ability to develop healthy friendships and peer relationships is vital during the teen years. This down-to-earth guide supports and empowers teens to develop positive, healthy friendships with peers. Structured in the form of "tips," the text addresses key social skills needed to make friends, including interpreting and sending the right body language, overcoming shyness and approaching others, and being a good conversationalist. The book also discusses skills needed to make friendships endure, such as being honest, dependable, and trustworthy, being an active listener, and forgiving a friend's occasional mistakes. Teens are encouraged to feel proud of their own unique traits and abilities, to act kind and loving toward themselves, and to steer clear of unhealthy friends who encourage them to violate their values. This is a timely, relevant addition to any teen guidance collection.

Learning how to get along with family not only strengthens the family and each member’s emotional security, it also provides individuals with valuable relationship-building tools and skills that will serve them well outside the family—in school and at work and throughout the larger web of life’s relationships—friends, classmates, teachers, co-workers, bosses, neighbors, romantic partners, and one’s own children. Studies show that strong family relationships help teens stay away from drugs and alcohol. Strong bases also help them stay out of trouble with the authorities, such as police or school officials. For many teens, improved school performance is also a benefit of strong family relationships. There is no one secret to help you get along in complex relationships. There are, however, sensible tips to help you not only merely get along with family members, but build healthy, enriching, rewarding, and enduring relationships that will provide strength, support, and security throughout your life. This volume enables readers to pursue healthy relationships with these tips and serves as an essential guidebook to the most central and important relationships of your life. Readers are encouraged to be actively involved with the 10 Great Questions to Ask and Myths & Facts that are provided.

Readers are encouraged to think about money as a tool—like a Swiss Army knife that can be used for many different tasks, to create things we want in our lives. Money is like a tool, in more ways than one. It is an all-purpose survival kit, because life gets tough without it. If we handle money carelessly, it can do serious damage. And just like any tool, sometimes it works great, sometimes it doesn’t. The ten tips found in this book are ideas shared by many people, from billionaires to working-class moms, dads, and kids. Readers will learn about spending, saving, investing, setting financial goals, budgeting, borrowing, and seeking financial advice. Some tips involve doing specific things: writing, adding, and subtracting. Others suggest ways of thinking about money and what we do with it. This volume is intended to help readers get the most out of this tool we call money, whether dealing with a lot of it, or just a little. Readers are encouraged to think further with 10 Great Questions to Ask an Economics/Finance teacher and Myths & Facts.

A career is more than a job. It is the contribution a young adult will make to his or her community and world. This helpful handbook supports teens in beginning the career planning process. Structured in the form of "tips," the book presents important steps in the process, including examining one's own characteristics and values, investigating the world of work, and studying the changing career outlook. The text also gives information and advice for strengthening one's career readiness, such as learning valued 21st -century skills and polishing one's self-presentation.

All students need strong study skills in order to succeed in school. Unfortunately, there often isn't time in content-focused middle schools and high schools to teach the fundamental strategies for academic success. This friendly, accessible guide gives students an experienced educator's top ten tips for doing well in school, including setting goals, getting organized, and studying effectively. Topics such as taking good notes, outlining an essay, studying with mnemonics, and planning long-term projects are covered in a fun and memorable way. Armed with new strategies, any student can become more organized, confident, and successful.

Unlike other animals, which are born with strong instincts, we humans must learn how to live socially—and we learn from the people around us. As a result, we’re closely linked to the community we’re raised in. Our daily lives and identities are affected by the common experiences shared with the people in our community. We learn the community’s values, history, and rules. When we become part of a community, it becomes part of us. Citizenship is the state of being an active, engaged, and productive member of a community. As citizens, we get certain rights, but also certain responsibilities. To be good citizens, we must live up to these responsibilities. That’s because we share our future with the other individuals in our community. Our actions affect them, and theirs affect us. A community can only grow and flourish through time if good citizens do their best to improve it. We all have a sense of right and wrong, but we don’t always follow our better judgments—good citizens must also live ethically, or morally. Whenever we decide not to live ethically, we risk hurting the people around us and ourselves. Being a good citizen has immediate rewards. Ethical living and good citizenship can improve your academic and social success, your happiness and quality of life, and your future prospects for professional success. By being good citizens and living ethically, we encourage others to do the same. This book provides ten tips on how to be a good citizen and live ethically—ethics 101, consider the consequences of your actions, be a good neighbor, take every opportunity to make friends, be respectful, obey the law, know and stand up for your rights, know your rights, stay informed, and get involved. The book also provides reasons why readers should care, and how they will benefit their community and self by being a good citizen and living ethically.

With people spending an increasing number of hours every day using computers, tablets, and smartphones, safe and responsible digital communication awareness is absolutely essential. Making pre-teens and teens aware of the dangers that exist alongside the enriching information and entertainment to be found online is pertinent. Tweens and teens are vulnerable to various Web-based pitfalls, such as cyber-addiction, overspending, over-sharing, and downloading viruses—not to mention cyber-predators, scam artists, bullies, and flamers. In order to use digital communication technology safely, responsibly, and successfully, people need to learn how to avoid, prevent, or respond to uncomfortable or even threatening situations. Awareness is brought to readers through the elaboration of ten incredibly useful tips, exactly how to navigate the Web and use digital technology safely and responsibly, and how to do so without causing harm to oneself or others. Learning and following these precautions will not only keep users safe from predators, bullies, and scammers, but will also protect their hard drive, their credit rating, their identities, their reputations (both online and offline), and even their future job prospects. Emphasis is placed not only on learning how to avoid becoming a victim of negative digital activity but also on warnings against becoming a perpetrator, especially of cyberbullying, flaming, and other types of online peer harassment. Readers are encouraged to learn even more with 10 Great Questions to Ask an IT Specialist and Myths & Facts.

Urban Youth Friendships and Community Practice breaks new ground in identifying and capturing the importance of friendships and the role that community practitioners and scholars can play to enhance them.

Dealing with mean girls, cliques, and other obstacles on the social scene is one of the minefields of adolescence for girls. This title provides the advice and support girls need for weathering changing friendships, handling feeling like an outsider, and making new and healthy friendships as they grow. A variety of issues, including bullying and cyberbullying, are sympathetically and practically treated. Diary entries, flowchart quizzes, and hip photos will draw in reluctant readers and many others.

"ALS Awareness Relationships: Attention to Significant Others, Family & Friends" is a compassionate guide for those touched by ALS. It begins with an **introduction** to the importance of awareness and a brief overview of ALS. The book delves into the **impact of ALS**, sharing personal stories and case studies that highlight the challenges faced by patients and their loved ones. Navigating the complex web of **relationships** affected by ALS, the book offers insights into the changing dynamics within families and the challenges faced by significant others. It emphasizes the creation of strong **support systems**, providing a list of resources and organizations for caregivers. Communication is key, and the book discusses **techniques** for maintaining strong relationships, alongside communication aids and technology. It also addresses the often-overlooked aspect of **self-care for caregivers**, offering strategies for managing stress and the importance of self-care routines. The book encourages **advocacy and involvement** in the ALS community, suggesting ways to become an advocate and organize community events. It shares **stories of hope and resilience**, providing messages of hope and inspiration from the ALS community. Concluding with reflections on the journey and the future of ALS awareness, the book also includes a comprehensive **resources section** with a list of ALS associations and educational materials for further reading. This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand and support those affected by ALS.