Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kindle. Show all posts

Sunday, October 21, 2012

7 free Halloween books for parents and teachers!

Halloween is just around the corner! Check out some of these freebies that I found today.

Please note that the free status of books can and often does change without notice. Please verify that the actual buy price still says $0.00. The Prime price is something different. You can click on a book cover or the indicated link to order it and other books on Amazon.


Quick and Easy Halloween Recipes for Kids and Adults

With Halloween just around the corner, this quick and easy Halloween recipe guide will definitely leave you hanging for more! Halloween is not just about dressing up in the funniest costumes, but it’s also about creating the perfect feast! With over 25+ recipes in this guide, you will definitely find some exciting menu for this Halloween to enjoy with both parents and children. 

Click here to download it for Kindle. 


Halloween Food

Trick out the treats for your next gathering of ghouls with these 20 Halloween food projects.

These desserts, snacks, and drinks will appeal to people who want something cute and seasonal. And it will also appeal to the folks who respect the culinary adventurousness of Hannibal Lecter and the Donner party, but aren’t willing to fully commit to the requisite lifestyle change to jump in whole hog (or long pig in this case.)

Read on to find the perfect treat for your Halloween gathering.

Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Since August 2005, Instructables has provided easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and life in general. 


Click here to download for Kindle. 

Easy Halloween Costumes (Instructables Halloween)

Don’t skip this year’s Halloween party because you spent most of October watching football or settling in at school. We’ve got 20 quick, simple Halloween costumes that will make you the life of the party. If you can use scissors and tape, with a dash of sewing skill, you’ll ready to take on any one of these creative costume projects. Roll up in style dressed as giant toilet paper. Turn the classic sheet-ghost into something a little more original. It’s never too late to throw something clever together, so get started with these and you’ll be rocking out to the Monster Mash in no time.

What could be better than quick, inexpensive, creative, and simple Halloween projects for procrastinators?

Instructables is the most popular project-sharing community on the Internet. Since August 2005, Instructables has provided easy publishing tools to enable passionate, creative people to share their most innovative projects, recipes, skills, and ideas. Instructables has over 40,000 projects covering all subjects, including crafts, art, electronics, kids, home improvement, pets, outdoors, reuse, bikes, cars, robotics, food, decorating, woodworking, costuming, games, and life in general.

Click here to download for Kindle.


No Tricks, Just Treats Halloween Cookbook

Coming up with great recipes for your Halloween party just got easier with this Halloween Cookbook! These delicious party treat recipes are easy to make and won’t require you to have any fancy tricks up your sleeve in order to create them.

Click here to download for Kindle.
 
Homemade Halloween Treats

Frightfully fun Halloween recipes, from the sweet to the savory, the grotesque to the gourmet – cakes and candy, party dips, drinks, and more – a colorful assortment of bloody good food that will make your Halloween party a spooktacular event! And to top things off, the authors have included a ghostly little story from Volume 3 of their “Odd True Tales” series (ASIN: B009LTC42I). You’ll find it at the end of the recipes, as a special bonus.

Click here to download for Kindle.

Halloween Enchantment

The Mystery of Halloween. This book takes you back to Halloween's Celtic origins of Samhain, through to Medieval History, and celebrations todate; together with the superstitions that surround the holiday.

Click here to download for Kindle.

Halloween Magic, Even on a Budget

Halloween can be an exciting time of year for children and adults alike, but you might already be dreading the date as you wonder how you are ever going to make your budget stretch to costumes, decorations and special treats such as candy, party foods and desserts. The good news is that by planning ahead, you can have a frugal but fun Halloween everyone in the family will love.

In this guide, you will discover a range of Halloween activities and recipes you can use as-is, or adapt to suit your own family’s budget, ages and interests. With a bit of time, effort and ingenuity, you can make the most of what you already have in the house to create decorations and costumes without spending a lot, then store them safely and re-use them year after year, not just throw them away when the day is over.

If you love to celebrate the holidays but you don’t want to feel the pinch financially, this guide will teach you how to:

+Create inexpensive decorations you can make to beautify your home inside and out +How to make your own costumes by using what you already have +Why you need to pay special attention to toddlers’ costumes at Halloween +Safe and fun alternatives to pumpkin carving +Use the downloadable lists that come with this guide to stay on top of things this year and ahead of the game next year in relation to your decorating and crafts and much more.

Halloween is becoming a bigger holiday every year, with more and more people celebrating lavishly with expensive costumes and party foods. That doesn’t mean you have to feel pressured into spending a lot. Don’t miss out on the fun. Plan ahead so your frugal festivities can include a range of options, including:

+Simple but fun and safe group activities for parties or community gatherings +Other activities besides trick-or-treating that the whole family will love +Great Halloween-themed or suspenseful movies suitable for your family and friends +Halloween treats for breakfast, lunch, dinner and brunch +Delightful desserts designed to be decorative and delicious and much more.

Halloween can be a wonderful opportunity to celebrate and spend quality time relaxing with your family. The last thing you want to do is get stressed about money. Download this guide and learn how to:

+Decorate your home quickly and cheaply and keep the children entertained at the same time with fun Halloween arts and crafts +Find great printables, homeschooling resources, entertainment pages and more +Organize a holiday craft table that will keep young people occupied for hours +Make delicious dessert recipes that will look like you spent a fortune and taste great-only you have to know that you never went to the bakery or had it catered and more.

If your children can’t wait for Halloween but all you keep worrying about is the expense, this guide can help you get organized and stay on budget year this year, and for many years to come.

Click here to download for Kindle

Saturday, May 26, 2012

Review of Growing Happy Kids

Maureen Healy went on her own pilgrimage to Tibet for a three-month period. Part of her mission was to see for herself the causes of supreme happiness that she had witnessed in her Tibetan Buddhist friends' children. Her job working as a counselor to children with so many problems was a daunting one. She wanted to be of better service to them. The result was a sense of happiness and strength like she had never before experienced. Desire to teach other adults and children to be just as happy and strong played a huge part in writing this book, Growing Happy Kids.

In order to have inner confidence, you must cultivate a healthy self-esteem, which she describes as a snapshot of how you feel about yourself. You also need outer confidence, which is your ability to believe in your abilities now and into the future. She outlines the steps of achieving this. While it is best to start boosting your child's confidence from the very beginning, it can still be done at any age.

Healy shares stories of parents and children in the "real world" from a variety of cultures. Their stories demonstrate the inner confidence that their children have and how they have achieved it. Each story is followed by a takeaway that expands upon the moral of the story.



When I first started this book, I feared it was going to be a lot of New Age spiritual information that would easily turn off some who picked it up. Once you get past her history of how she came to write this book, you find a lot of real world advice that can apply to any culture and any religion. East truly meets West in the ideas and actions outlined within the book. It is also clear how Healy has drawn upon her experience as a child psychologist and scientific research to create realistic advice. A lot of this practical advice seems so common sense. A lot of the ideas were naturally implemented by my own parents. As a teacher, however, I have seen how quickly and easily a lot of these ideals are forgotten. It isn't done on purpose; society is just different today.

A lot of her tips and ideas would apply to adults, as well. We often forget about maintaining a healthy lifestyle through diet, exercise and adequate sleep. We allow people to be negative toward us and forget to have faith in ourselves and our lives.

Another thing I like about this book is that it teaches you how to instill confidence in your children without going overboard. You can learn how to teach confidence without becoming cocky, or by causing the child to feel like a failure when things don't quite work out the way they are supposed to. Sometimes, something can happen to shatter your child's confidence. Healy shows you how you can also rebuild your child's confidence.

The book ends with several lists of activities that can seamlessly become part of your daily routine with your child, to help boost his or her inner confidence. Many of these could be implemented in a classroom, as well. This book is beneficial for both parents and teachers to read, as they are the ones closest to the child who will have the most impact. Further reading is also included for those who wish to learn more.

Proceeds from Growing Happy Kids are being donated to both UNICEF and the Seramey Thewo Khamsten Children's Program.

Visit Maureen Healy's website for further information, including her articles from Psychology Today.



Growing Happy Kids is also available for your Kindle.

Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Free Parenting Books for Kindle

Amazon often has an offering of daily books for parents and those who work with children. Here are some freebies that I found today.
No Kindle? No worries! I read mine with free reading apps for my Droid and my laptop. Get your free apps here or give in and purchase your own Kindle.
How to Be a Parent (Best Value Ever)

This all-inclusive book is meant to give you straightforward advice on handling your kids from the "terrible twos" to the "truculent teens."
Get your Kindle copy here.

Let's Talk to Our Kids: Successful Communication With Your Child

Communication skills can always be improved. This book goes beyond simply talking with your children to looking at how you communicate with people in general. The way that you model your communication skills with other adults will also model how children will communicate with each other. Also, sometimes when you think you are being quite clear, children are misinterpreting your actions or words. And sometimes you misinterpret what children are trying to tell you. This book will help.
Get your Kindle copy here.

Six Questions Children Ask About Death...And How to Answer Them

Adults often think that children are not affected by the death of a loved one. They are affected; they just manifest their grief in a different manner. Author Sharon Marshall Lockett has worked with children for several years. She also had to help her preschooler through the death of his baby brother. The book is written from a Christian perspective to help parents answer those tough questions that inevitably pop up.
Get your Kindle copy here.
Successfully Raising Grandchildren

Your parenting duties don't end when they leave the house. You are still their parents. And even more, you often become grandparents. Grandparents are just as instrumental in raising children as their parents are. This book, written by a pastor, aims to distinguish between the two different roles in life.
Get your Kindle copy here.

Lucky's Top 50 Toddler Activities

This is a collection of inexpensive, constructive activities to satisfy your toddler's craving for your attention.
Get your Kindle copy here. 

Thursday, March 22, 2012

8 Free Parenting Books: Cooking, Advice, Special Needs & More

Broaden your parenting horizons by reading what some experts have to say. Most of these books are based on real-life experiences with the authors' own families. As of the time of this posting, all of these books are also free. Please note that prices can change at any time, so always verify the "Buy" price prior to your purchase.

cooking....

51 Quick & Easy Family Dinners Under $10
All of the recipes in this book have been tested on the author's own family. Each recipe costs less than $10, takes 30 minutes or less to cook, and can feed a family of 5. Try Texas Style Chicken Enchiladas, Swiss Style Meatballs, Grilled or Panini Style Apple and Chicken Sandwiches, and more.
Get your Kindle copy here.
parent to parent....

Livin' La Vida Papa


Louis Mack thought he was done raising kids. His daughter was 16 when all of a sudden, surprise! There's a new baby in the house! This stay-at-home dad has a new perspective on life with a baby. Share in his ups and downs with his new family.
Get your Kindle copy here.
Oh Look, There's Two of Them!

This is one look at the double joys and double trouble of having twins. Author Alan Roy Hocking has fraternal twin girls, but is sure that any parent of twins will relate to his adventures!
Get your Kindle copy here.

babies and toddlers....

Growing Bodies: All About Babies and Toddlers

The focus of this book is about the growth and development of babies and toddlers. Author Wilma Rodgerson also delves into some parenting advice for those first-time parents - what is normal behavior and what should raise a red flag.
Get your Kindle copy here.
special needs....

Dreams Change

This book is a raw look at a mother's journey as she finds out that her unborn baby has Down Syndrome and then living in the NICU. She candidly talks about how your dreams for your child change, when life throws you a curveball.
Get your Kindle copy here.
discipline....

Raising Kids With Love & Limits

The most effective discipline is consistent and firm. Learn how to stand your ground while showing your kids you still love them. Stop analyzing every little detail and communicate effectively.
Get your Kindle copy here.
family fun....

Grow Your Own Tree-Hugger: 101 activities to teach your child how to live green

101 science, food and craft activities teach children ages 4-10 how to be self-sustainable while having fun. Eliminate pesticides by naturally releasing ladybugs into the garden. Create fun t-shirts and and bags from recycled materials, or make your own solar oven that really works!
Get your Kindle copy here.
Doing Fun Stuff With Little Kids

Over 150 activities for any adult caregiver to do with young children can be done in any kind of weather and for little to no cost.
Get your Kindle copy here.

Saturday, March 10, 2012

4 Free Kindle Books for Special Needs: Autism & ADHD

On occasion, there are free books available on the Kindle for special needs education and parenting. Sometimes these are preview chapters of full books. Some are always free. And others are free only for a limited time. Here are some books that are free as of the time of this posting. If you choose to purchase one, look at the price under "Buy" instead of "Prime" to verify its current price.

Don't have a Kindle? No worries! You can download a free app for your smartphone, tablet or computer by clicking here. Or, you can finally give in and purchase a Kindle, a Kindle Touch, or the new full-color Kindle Fire.

The Special Needs Parent Handbook - SPECIAL EDITION (abridged version)


The Special Needs Parent Handbook by Jonathan L. Singer that is currently free on the Kindle is an abridged version of the full-price version available in paperback. It advises parents and caregivers how to provide the best care for the child with special needs, as well as how to take care of oneself while doing so. Learn how to continue to care for the rest of the family while also being the best advocate for your child.

The author has a child with a rare genetic disorder that causes autistic tendencies. He hopes to reach other families with autistic children, cerebral palsy, etc. The organization Advocacy for All is also providing free copies of the paperback to libraries around the United States, so that all have easy access to it.

The full version of the book is currently available for Kindle for $9.99. Proceeds from the sale of this book go to Advocacy for All.






Purchase the abridged version for Kindle here.

Saving Deets!: A Family's Journey with Autism


Saving Deets! by Zack Gonzalez is the story of loving and helping a young boy with autism, known as Deets. It is written by Deets' teenage brother, providing a unique point-of-view not often covered in the current market. The honesty shared within the book will resonate with caregivers and families alike, as Zack says what is on everyone else's minds about all kinds of situations. He also shares how his family works to heal his brother.






Portions of the proceeds from the paperback version of the first edition are being donated toward autism research. Purchase a paperback version here.

Purchase the Kindle version here.


ADHD Life: Survive & Thrive: How to Cope With ADHD Life


ADHD Life: Survive & Thrive: How to Cope With ADHD Life by Molly Logan is a look at how adults can cope with their ADHD lives. It is part of a full series of mini-books on living with ADHD, whether yours or someone else in your family. It is written by a mom who personally has ADHD. She also is an expert in the subject, organizing many ADHD conferences and founding Parent Support Groups.





Get your Kindle copy here.


Calm Your Hyperactive Child (52 Brilliant Ideas)


Calm Your Hyperactive Child (52 Brilliant Ideas) by Dr. Sabina Dosani shares 52 different techniques for parents to use to help their child with ADHD. Try a new one each week of the year to see some gradual changes. Tips include modifying the child's diet, watching for warning signs of a hyper breakout, how to use cause and effect, and how to change your own reactions to the behavior.





Get your own Kindle copy here.

While I have not yet read nor reviewed any of these books, I have downloaded them to my Kindle readers. I figure I may as well grab them when they are free and I can read them later. You can also do the same! When I get a chance to read through them, I will post reviews on this blog. Please also share your opinions. Happy reading!