The Real-Life Heroes: Working Dads Making a Difference is a heartwarming and inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the incredible contributions of working dads in today's society. From striking a balance between work and family life to challenging stereotypes and leading by example, these real-life heroes are making a difference in the lives of their children and their communities. In the first chapter, "Striking a Balance," readers will discover how these working dads manage to juggle their professional responsibilities while still being present and involved in their children's lives. They share their strategies for time management, setting priorities, and finding the perfect work-life balance. "Challenging Stereotypes" explores how these dads are breaking down societal expectations and redefining what it means to be a father. They challenge traditional gender roles and show that nurturing, emotional support, and active involvement in their children's lives are not just the domain of mothers. "Leading by Example" delves into the ways these working dads inspire their children through their actions. They teach important life lessons, instill values and principles, and serve as positive role models for their kids. "Supportive Partnerships" highlights the importance of strong and equal partnerships between working dads and their spouses or partners. These dads share how they collaborate with their partners to create a supportive and nurturing environment for their children. In "Making Time for Family," readers will discover the creative ways these dads prioritize quality time with their children. They share their tips for creating family rituals, engaging in open communication, and being present and attentive in their children's lives. "Positive Role Models" explores how these dads encourage their children to pursue their passions and develop important life skills. They support their kids in their interests and hobbies, and provide guidance and mentorship along the way. "Supporting Other Fathers" showcases how these working dads extend their support beyond their own families. They share parenting tips, advocate for paternity leave, and create a community of support for other fathers. The impact of these working dads on their children's lives is explored in "Impact on Children's Lives." From fostering positive self-image to building strong parent-child bonds and creating lasting memories, these dads leave a lasting legacy in their children's lives. The book concludes with "Values and Principles" and "Lessons Learned," where readers will find valuable insights and wisdom from these real-life heroes. The Frequently Asked Questions section provides answers to common queries and invites readers to share their own questions and comments. The Real-Life Heroes This title is a short read. A Short Read is a type of book that is designed to be read in one quick sitting. These no fluff books are perfect for people who want an overview about a subject in a short period of time. Table of Contents The Real-Life Heroes: Working Dads Making a Difference Striking a Balance Challenging Stereotypes Leading by Example Supportive Partnerships Making Time for Family Quality Over Quantity Creating Family Rituals Emotional Support and Nurturing Open Communication Being Present and Attentive Positive Role Models Teaching Life Skills Encouraging Pursuit of Passions Supporting Other Fathers Sharing Parenting Tips Advocating for Paternity Leave Impact on Children's Lives Positive Self-Image Strong Parent-Child Bond Creating Lasting Memories Family Adventures Special Traditions Leaving a Legacy Values and Principles Lessons Learned Frequently Asked Questions Have Questions / Comments?

The essential manual for the updated classic Real Life Heroes: Practitioner's Manual is an organized and easy-to-use reference for busy practitioners who provide therapy to children with traumatic stress. This handy step-by-step guide is an accompanying text to the workbook for children called Real Life Heroes: A Life Story Book for Children, Second Edition, and Rebuilding Attachments with Traumatized Children: Healing from Losses, Violence, Abuse, and Neglect (both from Haworth), and provides professionals with structured tools for helping children to reintegrate painful memories and to foster healing from traumatic experiences. Real Life Heroes: Practitioner's Manual provides an essential guide for practitioners using the Real Life Heroes Workbook as a therapeutic tool. This resource includes premises and strategies from trauma research adapted into a practical format that helps to engage and empower children and caring adults. The manual includes a session summary/progress note that provides an easy-to-complete check-off for key components of each session, progress in the workbook, and targets critical issues, safety plans, trauma triggers, and constructive vs. dysfunctional beliefs. This guides practitioners to help children to deal with experiences of abuse, neglect, family violence, severe illnesses, deaths, or major losses, building on strengths and resources in the the child's family, their culture and their community. Each chapter in Real Life Heroes: Practitioner's Manual includes sections explaining: objectives overview step by step key points and sequence problems that can undermine therapy troubleshooting for challenges and their solutions essential elements for each exercise The Real Life Heroes: Practitioner's Manual is a rich resource for practitioners in child and family services including psychologists, child care workers, school counselors, psychiatrists, CASA workers, and adoption specialists who work with troubled and troubling children in home-based family counseling, foster family care, bonding programs, adoption and post-adoption programs, mental health clinics, residential treatment centers, crisis residences, respite centers, and psychiatric hospitals. This manual is also valuable for educators, students, foster parents, kinship foster parents, adoptive parents, and teachers able to work individually with students within curriculum units designed to foster self-esteem.

Once intent on being good to people, Jane Addams later dedicated herself to the idea of being good with people, establishing mutually-responsive and reciprocal relationships with those she served at Hull House. The essays in Jane Addams in the Classroom explore how Addams's life, work, and philosophy provide invaluable lessons for teachers seeking connection with their students. Balancing theoretical and practical considerations, the collection examines Addams's emphasis on listening to and learning from those around her and encourages contemporary educators to connect with students through innovative projects and teaching methods. In the first essays, Addams scholars lay out how her narratives drew on experience, history, and story to explicate theories she intended as guides to practice. Six teacher-scholars then establish Addams's ongoing relevance by connecting her principles to exciting events in their own classrooms. An examination of the Jane Addams Children's Book Award and a fictional essay on Addams's work and ideas round out the volume. Accessible and wide-ranging, Jane Addams in the Classroom offers inspiration for educators while adding to the ongoing reconsideration of Addams's contributions to American thought. Contributors include Todd DeStigter, Lanette Grate, Susan Griffith, Lisa Junkin, Jennifer Krikava, Lisa Lee, Petra Munro, Bridget O'Rourke, David Schaafsma, Beth Steffen, Darren Tuggle, Erin Vail, and Ruth Vinz.

This book is the perfect starting point for anyone looking to promote and encourage mental health in their school, or evaluate their existing provision, in line with current government priorities. It covers not only the day-to-day practical steps you can take to meet the mental health needs of learners, but also a provides a whole bank of ideas for ensuring you adopt a whole-school approach to positive mental health. Pooky Knightsmith lays out tried and tested tools you can use to evaluate the overall mental health of a school, showing how to improve and support the mental health of staff, and how to ensure that the voice of every learner is heard and valued, including the most vulnerable - and that everyone involved with the school feels safe, healthy and happy. Pooky's simple 'litmus test' framework lays out six practical areas you can explore to implement change within your own school, with explanations, sheets to fill in, tips from loads of school staff, and case examples that break these ideas down into easily digestible chunks. This much-needed book is a jumping off point for meaningful change in all aspects of your school community that will promote, support and strengthen mental health at whole-school level.

Real Life Heroes Life Storybook, 3rd Edition is a resourceful tool for children with traumatic stress. The resiliency-centered format and structure of the volume is coupled with treatment and sessions outlined in the Real Life Heroes Toolkit for Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Families. This updated edition uses a creative arts approach, encouraging children to work with dependable adults to develop autobiographies through a wide range of activities, including drawings, music, movies, and narrative. By helping children feel protection from adversity and stressors that exist in everyday life, this workbook gives children a sense of value that can promote transformation of troubled children from victims into tomorrow's heroes.

When Olivia Bruner saw video games overtaking her young sons' lives, she decided to learn the facts behind addiction. What she found was shocking: that most games are designed to be highly addictive-triggering physiological reactions in the brain similar to those associated with substance abuse-and that one out of five kids becomes addicted to computer and video games. And while many parents screen the content of games to protect their children from violent and sexual themes, few understand the forces causing their children to become hooked on the "digital drug." This book arms parents with the facts they need and concrete steps to protect our children from this very real epidemic. A must-read for all parents.

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