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Join Peep and friends as he figures out what to do with all these BIG feelings! Meet Peep, a fluffy little bird who fancies himself “the world’s greatest collector.” His undersea stash is overflowing with shells, rubber bands, and other fastidiously inventoried trinkets. For his new collection, Peep has set out to gather up feelings. He believes this will be his greatest collection ever! But unlike paper clips and buttons, emotions can be much more elusive. Has the world’s greatest collector finally met his match? Hardly! Peep and his sea-dwelling buddies call on your help to name these new and intricate emotions, make sense of what they mean, and learn how to deal with them. Based on the latest research in child psychological development and distilled into easy-to-read language, this fun and interactive book will boost kids’ emotional IQ while simultaneously improving their reading skills. Throughout the book, kids draw, write, and play their way through a series of interactive adventures designed to help them build their vocabulary and gain a better understanding of their emotions. When children actively share their feelings, they learn to communicate and navigate life’s challenges more successfully. Filled with adorable and fun illustrations, this engaging activity book offers real skills to help kids identify, understand, and respond to difficult emotions. What better time than now to get started? An exciting and enriching world awaits! In these increasingly challenging times, kids and teens need mental health resources more than ever. With more than 3 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 260 languages, Instant Help Books are easy to use, proven-effective, and recommended by therapists.

Real tools for parenting with patience, and helping your child develop emotional intelligence—an essential character trait for succeeding in our highly social world If you’re like many parents, you may wonder what’s going on inside your child’s mind when they throw a temper tantrum, refuse to cooperate or become overly excited. Written by two experts in child development and education, The Emotionally Intelligent Child offers a groundbreaking approach for understanding your child’s behavior in the context of their development, as well as tips for parenting with compassion, and strategies for helping your child build emotional intelligence—a key element of success in today’s world. In the book, you’ll learn all about the stages of development your child goes through as they gain social awareness and emotional balance—and how you can nurture this development using the author’s innovative MIND framework. By shifting your thinking from an adult viewpoint to a child’s, you’ll discover how you can scaffold and support your child’s social and emotional learning; and ensure the development of prosocial behavior, impulse control, and perspective taking. This shift in viewpoint will also help you gain more patience as a parent, respond with less reactivity, and—most importantly—cultivate more joy together as a family.

Real tools for parenting with patience, and helping your child develop emotional intelligence—an essential character trait for succeeding in our highly social world If you’re like many parents, you may wonder what’s going on inside your child’s mind when they throw a temper tantrum, refuse to cooperate or become overly excited. Written by two experts in child development and education, The Emotionally Intelligent Child offers a groundbreaking approach for understanding your child’s behavior in the context of their development, as well as tips for parenting with compassion, and strategies for helping your child build emotional intelligence—a key element of success in today’s world. In the book, you’ll learn all about the stages of development your child goes through as they gain social awareness and emotional balance—and how you can nurture this development using the author’s innovative MIND framework. By shifting your thinking from an adult viewpoint to a child’s, you’ll discover how you can scaffold and support your child’s social and emotional learning; and ensure the development of prosocial behavior, impulse control, and perspective taking. This shift in viewpoint will also help you gain more patience as a parent, respond with less reactivity, and—most importantly—cultivate more joy together as a family.

This book is about two families in Seattle acting out their dysfunction through a virtual world created by the families' wrongheaded patriarchs. It attempts to explore digital world-building in the 21st century as an indefatigable expression of our cultural and personal desire to possess and produce the other, or our inability to imagine anything truly new even as we are capable of creating new forms with which to imagine and manifest that which we imagine. Note: this is an early draft of the book.

"The Forest Landscape Assessment Tool (FLAT) is a set of procedures and tools used to rapidly determine forest ecological conditions and potential threats. FLAT enables planners and managers to understand baseline conditions, determine and prioritize restoration needs across a landscape system, and conduct ongoing monitoring to achieve land management goals. The rapid assessment process presents a cost-effective opportunity for landowners that include local governments, private owners, and nongovernmental organizations to use ecological data to guide decisionmaking and improve environmental outcomes on their lands. This report is an introduction to FLAT, providing an overview of its purpose, methods, and implications for land management in diverse regions. FLAT is executed in three sequential phases: Phase 1--Forest Cover Type Mapping, Phase 2--Field Assessment, and Phase 3--Management Prioritization. Overall, FLAT consists of onsite visual estimation (aided by remote sensing) of ecological conditions by a trained field team to produce a forest inventory. In addition to providing baseline data and a framework to prioritize actions, FLAT can be used as a monitoring tool to evaluate changing conditions and inform adjustments in management strategies and priorities. To illustrate FLAT implementation, the King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks case study details a pilot project conducted on 24,700 of the more than 26,000 ac of county lands. King County is using the results from FLAT to develop and implement forest stewardship plans and target efforts of its volunteer restoration program. Although the tool was initially used in lowland forests in the Puget Sound region, in concept, FLAT could be expanded and adapted for use in a wide variety of ecosystem types."--Abstract