131 Conversations That Engage Kids

Inspire your kids to pause their electronics and grow their social skills, through highly engaging, face-to-face conversations! In this book, you will discover:* Why conversations matter and connecting with others is important.* Three strategies to engage kids and keep the conversation going.* Five tools to help children develop their social skills.* How to use conversations to guide children toward positive change. Then, dive into 131 creative, engaging, and fun conversations that will get your kids talking. This book is for children who desire to build face-to-face connections that develop into life-long friendships. It is also for parents, foster parents, teachers, coaches, youth pastors, mentors, and everyone who wants to help their kids to connect in an increasingly disconnected world! Conversation Starters Include:* If the zoo offered to let you keep one exotic animal as a pet, which animal would you take home with you?* If you were principal of your school for a day, what is one school rule that you would change?* No two snowflakes are exactly alike. No two people are the same either. What is something that makes you unique? Jed Jurchenko is passionate about supporting weary Christ-followers in leading their families, growing their friendships, and caffeinating their faith so that they can live joy-filled, Christ-honoring, lives. Jed is a husband, daddy to four girls, a marriage and family therapist, psychology professor, and an author. Jed and his wife, Jenny, blog at www.coffeeshopconversations.com

Help your child grow socially, emotionally, and spiritually. This book is packed with easily applied positive parenting strategies, and will guide you on the journey Creative Parenting All children are unique, which means there is no such thing as perfect, one-size-fits-all, parenting strategies. Instead, successful parenting involves a process of discovering which parenting techniques work best for your child's unique needs. This creative parenting book provides a multitude of creative parenting tips so you can help your child grow. It is compiled of three, creative parenting books that will help your child develop socially, emotionally, and spiritually: 131 Conversations That Engage Kids, will help you inspire your kids to pause their electronics, grow their social skills, and develop lifelong friendships. First, discover why conversations matter, and why connecting with your kids is essential. Next, lean three strategies to engage kids and keep the conversation going. After that, dive into five strategies to help kids and tweens grow their social skills. Finally, examine creative ways to encourage positive change in children's lives. Then, use the conversation starters to help your child grow his or her social skills. 131 Boredom Busters and Creativity Builders for Kids, will inspire you to bust boredom, build creativity, and inspire awesomeness in your kids. This creative parenting book is packed with in-home play activities that will and will help your child grow his or her imagination. In addition, parents will: Gain new insights into the healing power of play. Learn to let go of parenting guilt. Discover why free time is a secret ingredient to an awesome childhood. 131 Stress Busters and Mood Boosters for Kids, will help you encourage your kids to bust stress, be happy, and achieve their goals. These coping skills will help your child grow by learning to self-regulate and keep pressing forward, even when projects are difficult. Positive coping skills include: Eleven ways kids can boost their mood by changing their thoughts. Six strategies that encourage children to express how they feel. Eight practices for inspiring children to draw strength from their faith. Five ways kids can elevate their mood through gratitude. Seven tactics that help children become fully present. Five ideas for using temperature changes to help kids self-regulate. Christian Parenting Books These Chrisitan parenting books are based on Scripture and will inspire you to help your child grow his or her faith. Instead of waiting and hoping for change to happen, take action. These creative parenting books are filled packed with positive parenting ideas to help your child grow

Robert Coles is a psychiatrist with a novelist's sensibilities. ""Of course everything I come up with,"" he says, ""novelists have known beforehand.""These twenty-three interviews selected from hundreds that Coles has given disclose not only an illustrious physician trained in pediatrics and psychoanalysis but also a sage whose compassion for children and suffering seems boundless. In focusing on a man known mainly as an eminent psychiatrist and author of The Spiritual Life of Children and more than fifty other books, this collection is a departure from the other books in the Literary Conversations Series. By no means is Coles best known as a writer of belles lettres, as are other figures in this series. Yet his varied critical insights and the critical authority with which he approaches literary subjects have enriched American literature. Here through the prism of his medical and literary training Coles's conversations reveal his imposing moral vision. As he ranges with penetrating wisdom over many subjects--children, literature, teaching, psychiatry, family--he explores the cultural, social, and intellectual dimensions of our lives.

Forge stronger bonds with your kids. Inspire them. Advance their social skills and build mental toughness-all while you learn new and interesting things about them.Are you tired of asking, "How was your day?" only to be met with the same dull responses? Is it impossible to get your kid to put down their device or screen and just talk to you? Don't just wait for the conversation to start. Be proactive! It's time to get your family talking and overcome grunts and one-word answers. Get your kids engaged with questions they want to answer using this book of conversation starters for kids! Parenting Ideas That Will Win Your Child's Heart Why conversations are the easiest, best, least-expensive way to engage your kids 6 strategies for effective listening when your child is talking 5 key growth areas and specific tools for conversations in each area How to keep the conversations going once you've gotten them started Conversations with kids deliver so much joy. Awaken lively dinner conversations. Connect with your child during rides in the car. Add variety to indoor activities on rainy and snowy days. Find something to talk about during airplane flights. Distract kids during long waits at the doctor's office. Let's do it! ...Only, this book isn't just for fun. Many of the questions are creatively designed to help develop skills and abilities so your kid can thrive in today's disconnected world. Empower your child with conversation starters designed to: Grow gratitude Develop imagination Foster empathy and interpersonal skills Build mental fortitude & confidence Enhance family relationships Explore ethical thinking Create ambition and drive Encourage a sense of humor Develop financial literacy And of course, help you get to know your child better Example Conversation Starters that Will Engage Your Kids: If you had to rename yourself, what name would you give yourself? If your pets could talk, what would they say? What are some things that boys don't understand about girls? An alien lands in your backyard and wants to understand what money is. How do you explain it to them? What's one rule you wish your mom and dad didn't have? Written in the same spirit as beloved, timeless books like How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk and The Five Love Languages of Children, get ready to find new ways to nurture, grow, and bond with your kids as you launch into 325+ Conversation Starters for Kids!

We’ve all been there: The kids come home from school tired and distracted, and we try to connect with them by asking the same questions day after day. Well, this book will help you find the right questions to connect with your child today and every day. “How was school?” “What did you learn today?” “Did you have fun?” If we are lucky, we might get a little more than “Fine” or “It was good” in return. Maybe we're asking the wrong questions. The good news is that this book will help you find the right questions to connect with your child every day. Stop Asking "How Was Your Day?" is an invaluable tool that can be used again and again. Easy to flip through while waiting in the pickup lane outside school or before sitting down to dinner, this book provides diverse and open-ended questions for parents of schoolchildren of all ages and walks of life. Some questions are fun, some are thoughtful, and some are silly. Ultimately, this book is about communication. As we all know, communication is a two-way street, and Stop Asking "How Was Your Day?" alternates the queries with “Lead by Example” sections that prompt parents to share something from their own experiences to help them connect with their children.

A guide to effectively communicating with teenagers by the bestselling authors of The Self-Driven Child If you're a parent, you've had a moment--maybe many of them--when you've thought, "How did that conversation go so badly?" At some point after the sixth grade, the same kid who asked "why" non-stop at age four suddenly stops talking to you. And the conversations that you wish you could have--ones fueled by your desire to see your kid not just safe and healthy, but passionately engaged--suddenly feel nearly impossible to execute. The good news is that effective communication can be cultivated, learned, and taught. And as you get better at this, so will your kids. William Stixrud, Ph.D., and Ned Johnson have 60 years combined experience talking to kids one-on-one, and the most common question they get when out speaking to parents and educators is: What do you say? While many adults understand the importance and power of the philosophies behind the books that dominate the parenting bestseller list, parents are often left wondering how to put those concepts into action. In What Do You Say?, Johnson and Stixrud show how to engage in respectful and effective dialogue, beginning with defining and demonstrating the basic principles of listening and speaking. Then they show new ways to handle specific, thorny topics of the sort that usually end in parent/kid standoffs: delivering constructive feedback to kids; discussing boundaries around technology; explaining sleep and their brains; the anxiety of current events; and family problem-solving. What Do You Say? is a manual and map that will immediately transform parents' ability to navigate complex terrain and train their minds and hearts to communicate ever more successfully.

Your fast-track to student engagement Everywhere Smokey Daniels speaks, there’s one teaching strategy that teachers embrace above all others. That single method for transforming students from passive spectators into active learners . . . for evoking curiosity, inspiring critical thinking, and building powerful writers along the way. Now, that best-kept teaching secret is revealed: Written Conversations. Smokey and coauthor Elaine Daniels describe how to leverage these “silent writing-to-learn discussions” structure by structure Mini-memos Dialogue journals Write-arounds Digital discussions . . . with detailed descriptions, lessons, and annotated student samples—making this the most practical teaching book in recent memory.

Dad, you love your kids to pieces. But whether it’s father-son or father-daughter, how to talk to them—and about what—can be one of the big mysteries in raising children. Bestselling author and veteran dad Jay Payleitner comes to the rescue with a carload of great ideas about communicating those all-important life values to your kids to help them thrive. Good news is, you don’t have to use a lot of words as you plant healthy thoughts about... Excellence: how your kids can hit home runs in life Emotions: experiencing and handling them as God’s gift Integrity: being true to something beyond themselves Marriage: focusing on the positives, not the weeds, thorns, and crabgrass Immortality: living life as a friend of the One who’s eternal Jay’s straightforward, man-friendly advice and stories form a terrific, confidence-boosting resource for building lifelong positives into your family. Raising children just got easier! Great gift or men’s group selection.