The Camp Director S Survival Guide

A compilation of educational training sessions.

So you want to work at camp? This is not your ordinary job! Jessica Lippe, who has worked at camps across the country, brings you top tips in The Ultimate Survival Guide to Working at Camp. Find out how to pack, wrangle children, navigate camp crushes, avoid becoming a health center patient, and more while you enjoy the fun, games, and other perks that this unique experience has to offer! This is an ideal guide for those merely considering working at summer camp as well as for full-timers with years of experience under their belt. It can even be used camp-wide and given to each staff member to help with their training.

A very entertaining companion book to mega-bestseller HOLES Imagine your misfortune if, like Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thankfully, Louis Sachar has lent his knowledge and expertise to the subject and created this wonderful, quirky, and utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Packed with information about the characters in HOLES, as well as lots of do's and don'ts for survival, this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of HOLES' fans.

The Band Director's Guide to Success is the ideal guide for preparing future band directors for the practical challenges and obstacles that they will face in the introductory years of their teaching careers. Written in an easy to understand, quick-reference guide format, this book is designed to be easily navigated as a series of case studies arranged by topic in concise, user-friendly chapters ranging from budgeting to classroom management to conflict resolution and beyond. This manual and career guide in one may be used as a supplemental text with suggestions and practical advice to spare new music teachers from many of the initial headaches and stress that often accompany the transition into the full-time teaching profession.

Keep God close throughout college College can be an exciting and overwhelming time, full of big changes and new experiences. This devotional for men makes it easy to carve out moments of calm and stay connected to faith as you discover everything college has to offer. What sets this college survival guide apart from other college books: Short and sweet—Bolster your faith in just a few minutes with quick devotions designed to complement the busy life of any college student. Relevant topics—Explore a wide range of Bible passages and discover how God can provide guidance on everything from dating to living with purpose. Thoughtful prompts—Reflect on the Lord's wisdom and consider how to apply His lessons to your life with insightful, open-ended questions at the end of every devotion. Foster your faith and find support as an undergrad with the College Survival Guide for Christian Men.

Given the daily challenges of raising a child with autism, it’s easy for parents to lose themselves and for their overall quality of life to plummet. Susan Senator interweaves the voices of autism parents, researchers, and professionals to offer guidance and encouragement on how to find happiness and fulfillment in the midst of the struggles of raising an autistic child. Topics include: how to handle feelings of despair and hopelessness; finding fun, even during turbulent times; caring for your marriage; and finding a balance between accepting your child as he or she is and seeking new treatments. To learn more about the author, visit her website at susansenator.com.

How much life insurance is enough to protect my children? What is a "good" yield on a nest-egg investment? Should I give my child an allowance? How do I choose a camp? What about music lessons? What kind of college will suit my child's educational needs and my financial resources? Questions asked by parents everywhere. Now, in one up-to-date resource, the answers to these fiscal issues are available in plain, unambiguous language. Covering topics from prebirth nest eggs to the tax implications of gifts to adult children, Hughes and Klein outline financial strategies to prepare for the expected and unexpected costs of raising a child. This is a valuable guide for parents at every stage of parenthood, whether just contemplating a family or sweating bullets over the cost of higher education. No other book presents the big picture as this one does: It can help make children not only affordable, but wonderfully worth it.