Educational title for gifted and advanced learners.

Ask most of the millions of pre-teen soccer-playing girls in America if they plan to make the U.S. Women's National Team someday and the answer for them - and most of their parents - will be a resounding "Yes!" Among the most successful international teams in any sport in the past three decades, the USNWT has emerged as a collective cultural icon, with its individual members redrafting the very definition of female across the globe. With the lines blurring between male and female behavior, girls are competing ferociously and celebrating wildly without apology. Women are demanding gender and racial equity, while dressing and speaking authentically, and loving however and whomever they choose. The reality is that making the National Team is about as likely as winning the lottery. Of the tens of millions of soccer players since the team was formed in 1985, fewer than 250 women have ever made it to the highest level as of 2020. In Raising Tomorrow's Champions, one of those players, 16-year professional Joanna Lohman, joins current soccer dad and 40-year journalist Paul Tukey to share the team members' stories, from the early pioneers like Michelle Akers, Brandi Chastain and Mia Hamm, who are now parents themselves, to modern-day household names like Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan and Megan Rapinoe. For a true picture of what makes these women champions, Joanna and Paul also talked to their parents, coaches and teammates. The result of this unprecedented access to the National Team is an intimately revealing portrait of what it takes to make it to the top, not just in soccer, but in life. Not every child will make the most elite team, but the choices they - and their families - make in the face of challenge and adversity may define their childhood, their high school experiences, their college options, and their path forward in life. Not every child will necessarily even play soccer, but the lessons shared within Raising Tomorrow's Champions can help him or her become accomplished, authentic, and satisfied adults no matter what path they choose.

As father, coach and mentor, Wayne Bryan helped his twin sons become the world's #1 tennis doubles team. His winning philosophy has always been simple: focus on playing before learning, motivate early and often, and most of all, have fun. Now Bryan has distilled his proven formula for success into a unique book that shows parents how to help their kids become champions in athletics, the arts, academia - and just about anything else they chose to undertake. Concise and accessible, this guide is packed with Bryan's trademark energy and common sense tips designed to inspire success.

American families have doubled down on their commitment to kids' sports. More children are competing--nearly 50% more than 25 years ago and a tenfold increase in high school girls participation between 1970-2000! More children start earlier. More kids focus year round on one sport. More is demanded of these athletes--more practices, more games, more travel. More is required of their parents-more money, more support, more time. Many parents feel like they're trapped in extra innings and wonder what to do about this flood of more. Bernie Schock has written this book to help parents raise kids whose passion and priority is to be God's champions in this world of more. The apostle Paul reminds us that physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things. Children's athletics provide many rich opportunities to help kids grow into men and women who love God whole-heartedly and others selflessly. This book isn't simply Monday morning quarterbacking. Bernie Schock has lived this as a father, a fan, a coach, an athlete, a referee. He admits that, at times, his involvement in sports interfered with his own love for God and others. Thus, this book seeks to direct both children's and parents' hearts. Parents will not be able to help their kids grow through sports until they understand why sports have such a powerful grip on many of them. Children's sports can be a source of great delight--or great pain. But what makes for good and bad experiences? This book seeks to answer that question so that sports can provide rich blessings to children's development--physically, psychologically, socially, and spiritually. Play ball!

Non-Fiction / Self-Help / Parenting / Mentor / Education / Bible / Spiritual a Raising Champions is a tool that will help parents and mentors achieve two goals with one action. The book focuses on the most powerful influencer of the future of the human race...parents and mentors. The issues our youth are grappling with today are the result of the environments parents have created or environments parents allow to exist around the youth they are ordained to protect. Rampant evidence of spiritual bankruptcy, moral decay, low academic performance, promiscuity, teen pregnancy, drug and alcohol abuse and a lack of initiative and a solid work ethic are byproducts of poor parenting and a lack of a spiritual foundation. The power to change the course of lives of future generations of youth is in the hands of parents and mentors. Most parents are struggling to keep their head's above the water is true. The conditions the parents and mentors live and work under, breed a climate of complaining and bitterness and is modeled before our youth as the primary example of behavior on a daily basis. a * What a parent does is more powerful than what they say * Parents with unachieved goals, raise youth with unachieved goals * The commercial retail industry's goal is to create spend-a-holics * You are charged to raise you children...not entertainers * Parent's change the environment...you change the children * The tools in this book can change your life in 60 seconds! a Take your God given, rightful place as a parent or mentor andayou canasave your life and the lives ofayouths you have been entrusted to Raise into Champions.

Most of What Happens in Your Life Happens Because of the Way You Think. Wrong thinking produces wrong emotions, wrong reactions, wrong behavior--and unhappiness! Learning to deal with your thoughts is the first step on the road to healthy thinking. How to handle one's thoughts properly is what this book is all about! It explains the life-changing method the authors call Misbelief Therapy, and it can work for you-- In your home In your own circumstances In your own problems In your own adverse environment In your own thinking Based on the Bible, this book has helped thousands of people for many years, and it can help you! Telling Yourself the Truth can show you how to identify your own misbeliefs and replace them with the truth. Also available: the corresponding Telling Yourself the Truth study guide. Winner of the Gold Book Award (500,000 copies sold), Winner of the Gold Medallion Award (ECPA), which recognizes excellence in evangelical Christian literature

Separated or divorced with concerns of the impact on your children? This informative and insightful book easily summarizes common issues with the hard fought lessons of an experienced family law attorney who has seen it all, both as a litigator and as a divorced parent. The lessons in this book will help you maintain the mindset necessary to provide the guidance and leadership children need in chaotic times. What’s best for your children, how to deal with an uncooperative co-parent, how to best communicate with your child when emotionally charged ... these scenarios are laid out in plainspoken and easy to understand terms. Accept that you have no control over your ex, and realize that you can control your reactions differently. Changes in perspective will have significant impact on your children. Every child can be a champion!