Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S (Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully) was written to fulfill a need in me and to share with other parents. Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S is my concerted effort to acquaint and empower parents with information to become informed decision makers for themselves and their families. The book Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S should be viewed as a resource to explore the possibilities of what life has to offer. Parents are hardworking people wearing various hats for the success of their children. Parents often neglect themselves while providing necessities for their families. The daily bombardment of information to pick and choose from offers colliding initiatives. My goal is to help parents make a difference in their lives and, ultimately, in the lives of their children. Please partner with me and believe the words written are designed to take you places and show new perspectives about living successfully. Effective partnerships require vision, leadership, purpose, understanding, and commitment. When we as parents are informed, a higher level of engagement and consciousness evolve. Picture us sitting at the kitchen table exchanging information on the same frequency of understanding. There is no judgment in this space, only mutual sharing, respect, and appreciation. Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S is here to motivate, encourage, and inspire you with real success-thinking activities. Reading Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S (Preparing Achievers Reaching Excellence Nurturing Talents Successfully) is requesting that you institute the seven letters, seven words, and seven ideas for you to become a responsible thinker for your family. Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S will challenge you to write and live your story through a positive lens, unique to you and your family. The interactive activities will permit you to write and exchange dialogue between you, your children. Thank you for being a change agent. This is one mother, teacher, mentor, motivational encourager, talking mother to mother. Armed with research, my thesis, scientific principles, and biblical principles, Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S was birthed. Research has documented that staff development for teachers improve the educational outcome of students; therefore, the same principles hold true for parents. P.A.R.E.N.T.S is your staff development written expressly for you. In real estate, when searching for a home, you ask the realtor how to find a house in a good community with great schools and a safe environment and receive the most value for your investment. The realtor replies, Its location, location, location. When asked, What is the best way to parent? my reply is Parents parenting, parents parenting, parents parenting will render the best success. Thank you for allowing Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S to be your blueprint and navigational compass for life-affirming achievement. Enjoy heartwarming and sometimes gut-wrenching interviews with women who were willing to share their stories with me and now you. Calling All P.A.R.E.N.T.S is here to be of service. Together we can change the future and make it a better tomorrow by what we do today.

This book is not only reassuring; it is inspiring, and bursting with ideas and achievable strategies. The authors write with authority and conviction, and tackle even the most difficult and delicate of topics. If ever you needed to be convinced that girls with ASD can overcome the difficulties and challenges of puberty and adolescence, have successful friendships and relationships and enjoy a healthy sexuality, then take the time to read this book - it is a must-have for families, teachers and therapists alike.' -Sarah Attwood, author of Making Sense of Sex: A Forthright Guide to Puberty, Sex and Relationships for People with Asperger's Syndrome Growing up isn't easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book covers all the concerns commonly faced by girls with ASDs and their parents, from periods and puberty to worries over friendships and 'fitting in'. Taking a good look at these adolescent issues, and many more, within the context of specific areas of difficulty for girls with ASDs, the authors provide families with the knowledge and advice they need to help their daughters - and the whole family - through the teenage years. This book addresses core issues such as cognition, communication, behavior, sensory sensitivities, and social difficulties; it gives candid and realistic advice on a wide range of important teenage topics. Providing professional perspectives alongside personal experiences from mothers, daughters and educators, this is a unique and indispensible guide for families and their daughters with ASDs, as well as the teachers and professionals who work with them.

In this provocative book, author Leslie Leyland Fields explores with refreshing honesty the myths that can lead to unrealistic expectations and distract us from God’s purposes for our children and for us. Why am I not a more joyful parent? Why aren’t my kids turning out as I expected? Why do I always feel as if I’m not doing enough for my children? Is Parenting Supposed to Be This Difficult? As a mother of six, Leslie Leyland Fields knows firsthand the insecurities and questions that come with rearing children. In Parenting Is Your Highest Calling, she tackles nine myths about parenting, including: • Children make you happy and bring great fulfillment. • You will always feel love for your child. • Your success as a parent can be measured by your child’s behavior. • There is one “right” biblical model for family life. • Good parenting will result in happy children. Through a close look at God’s own life as a parent as well as stories from real-life families, Fields highlights the transforming biblical truths that release parents from the grip of mistaken assumptions. Fresh, provocative insights will lead you to a deeper understanding of God and yourself– an understanding that lifts the weight of guilt and fear and frees you to love your children as God intended. Includes “going deeper” questions for individuals, couples, or groups.

CALLING ALL FATHERS is a 911 emergency system designed to compel all males to respond to their roles as fathers. Every man who desires to become committed to, involved with and responsible for his children must respond to this call. Our children must know and understand how important they are to us. Any male can be a dad; it takes a special man to be a father. CALLING ALL FATHERS is more than just a catchy phrase. It is a mindset and philosophy that all fathers involved in parenting time, custody and child support have to internalize. The most pressing need fathers have is the need for information and support. Many fathers do not understand the many resources available to them. CALLING ALL FATHERS is meant to educate, empower, engage and enlightyen these men.

The hour has come for the body of Christ, to rise up and take a stand against the power of darkness, and prophecy the kingdom of god that is at hand. The father is seeking for a generation that desires his presence, I personally believe we are the prophetic seed, that will see the return of Jesus Christ on the earth. In Matthew 24:14 and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come. The time is now to declare the word of the lord for salvation, healings, miracles, signs and wonders, to be demonstrated in these last days. God wants you to use everyone who submit their whole life unto his lordship church rise up and be counted. Book Reviews: "Calling All Prohets-Rise Up and Be Counted is a powerful book and its a must read,biblical content." Pastor L.Dixon "I know this book will become a blessing to the body of Christ. The hand of GOD is on it. This book has the hand of GOD written all over it." Pastor Ubanks

This Study Guide provides a variety of thought-provoking questions and activities to help you implement the concepts in the bestselling book, Dealing with Difficult Parents, 2nd Edition. For each chapter of the book, the Study Guide offers discussion questions, journal prompts, and group activities. You can work on these sections independently, in book studies, in professional learning communities (PLCs), in mentor sessions, and in professional development sessions. As you work through this Study Guide, you’ll learn how to make the book’s strategies work for you, so that you can more effectively deal with parents in all kinds of challenging situations and help them get on your side to ensure students’ success.

Learning to Connect explores how teachers learn to form meaningful relationships with students, especially across racial and cultural differences. To do so, the book draws on data from a two-year ethnographic study of No Excuses Teacher Residency (NETR) and Progressive Teacher Residency (PTR), and teachers that emerge from each program. Each program is characterized in rich complexity, with a focus on coursework relating to relationships and race, as well as fieldwork. The final part of the book explores how program graduates draw upon these experiences in their first year of full-time teaching. Two very different visions and approaches to teacher-student relationships emerge – one instrumental, the other reciprocal, with implications for the students ultimately served by each approach. Through engaging portraits and illustrative case studies, this rigorously researched yet eminently accessible book will help teacher educators (and likely other scholars, teachers and policymakers, too) to better conceptualize, support, and practice the formation of meaningful relationships with students from all backgrounds. Ultimately, Learning to Connect offers a hopeful path forward as educators become better equipped to model meaningful human connections with students, which might be especially necessary in today’s deeply divided society.