Kategoria BISAC: Juvenile Nonfiction >> Social Topics - Self-Esteem & Self-Reliance

Manny is unaware of all of the people around him who love and care about him. He is focused on the lack of love from his absent father. His friend listens and watches as the people in Manny's life share their time and affection with him. With a smiling face and a positive attitude, his friend mentions that she wishes for what he has, Manny continues unaware. When she shares a saying by her grandmother, "Count your blessings," Manny looks around and opens his eyes to the love, kindness, caring and blessings around him. His outside world never changed, only his perception of it.

Do you want to do something spectacular with your life? Maybe you just want to achieve a simple goal that has been eluding you for years. Whatever size your dream may be, this new self-help guide by an experienced Police Officer and mentor can help you achieve it.

Seymour Council III has spoken with hundreds of teens in his capacity as a Police Officer and in his current position as the Sergeant of the Juvenile Unit/School Resource Officers. His own life experiences have taught him how to enthusiastically approach challenges. As such, he's combined his perspective with a program formed...

We all have "emotional bank accounts." Just as we want our traditional bank accounts to have positive balances and to be filled with money, we also need our emotional bank accounts to have positive balances and be filled with healthy emotions.

Emotional Banking for Kids offers a handbook on emotional intelligence designed for children in elementary and middle school. Written by family empowerment expert Yvonne Brooks and coauthored by nine-year-old Yasmin Soferi, this manual provides helpful exercises for raising self-esteem by becoming more secure, increasing...

As parents, we often forget what it is like to be our kids' age. We struggle between their need for the here and now versus our desire to teach self-control and the realization of better things in the future. We see their increasing cravings of independence flipped against our nurturing instinct and guidance to view and care about the world around them.

This funny, yet discussion provoking book shows kids the balance between urges and broader issues compelling awareness to help them (and us as parents) achieve balance so we're not classified in the extreme.