Grade 5-10?This fact-filled manual effectively covers the subject for both beginners and experienced teen sitters. Kuch makes it clear that the job entails "more than just watching children"; it requires feeding, clothing, playing with your charges, and keeping them and the house organized and safe. Sections include: Babysitting Basics, Fun and Games, Inside Scoop on Feeding & Bedtime, and Expect the Unexpected. Valuable and practical "Smart Sitter" tips provide addresses of pertinent organizations, hints on maintaining an appointment calendar, emergency practices and procedures, and insight into child psychology. Samples of emergency cards, actual games and songs, a list of suggested books to read aloud, healthy snack creations, and first-aid ABCs are offered. This title provides essential information on preparing young adults for a safe, successful, and rewarding experience with children. A small investment that will reap large dividends.?Patricia Mahoney Brown, Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, Kenmore,
Boost your career, your relationships, and your finances with these practical and potent tips for applying feng shui in your everyday life. Includes wooden wind chimes.
A hardworking and collectable book filled with tips and techniques for DIY shelving and storage projects around the home.
This is the ultimate all-in-one guide to the art of cleaning.Top-notch professional cleaner Don Aslett shares the secrets of thepros as he leads you through basic training -- over 600alphabetized entries dealing with specific problems, with acomprehensive reference for everything from the anatomy ofhousekeeping to safe storage of cleaning chemicals and tools.
Breaking the fundamentals down into grip, stance and set up, backswing and downswing, the short game, and special situation shots, Armour's collection of 160 concise, illustrated tips, selected by his PGA tour-playing grandson, is really a compendium of bursts of insight. One of golf's great early teachers, Armour remains, long after his death, one of his game's best communicators. His concepts of technique are as essential as they were in his own playing heyday of the '20s, and his ability to pierce the psychological walls that golfers have a habit of erecting around themselves is still exquisite. Each tip is its own perfectly conceived refresher course.
Dogs for Dummies should be required reading for anyone considering purchasing or adopting a dog. In this comprehensive, yet concise and entertaining book, author Gina Spadafori, pet care columnist for Universal Press Syndicate and host of AOL's "Gina Spadafori's Pet Connection," makes a strong case for researching breeds and considering how certain types of dogs will or won't fit an owner's lifestyle. She doesn't pull any punches in describing the fate of dogs who have been wrongly chosen by well-intentioned owners, then given up for possible adoption, but probable euthanasia, because they are too active, too aggressive, poorly trained, or, appallingly, because they don't fit in with the owner's décor.
This resource gives novice knitters easy-to-follow instructions and tips for creating beautiful picture knits the first time out! With more than 50 color designs and motifs, knitters will discover a variety of fun and simple projects in this guaranteed guide to success. Row-by-row instructions and color charts easily lead knitters through motifs of varying difficulty. This unbeatable reference features motifs of geometric shapes, birds, flowers and childhood themes, which can easily be incorporated into purses, bags, sweaters and wall hangings. -More than 50 full-color illustrations easily guide knitters through projects -Level of difficulty indicator helps knitters prioritize projects -Easy-to-follow instructions suit any level knitter
Amaze your friends with your awesome knowledge of the world's coolest cars!Super stats and freaky facts! Amazing activities[ Quirky quizzes! Stupendous stickers!
This resource gives novice knitters easy-to-follow instructions and tips for creating beautiful picture knits the first time out! With more than 50 color designs and motifs, knitters will discover a variety of fun and simple projects in this guaranteed guide to success. Row-by-row instructions and color charts easily lead knitters through motifs of varying difficulty. This unbeatable reference features motifs of geometric shapes, birds, flowers and childhood themes, which can easily be incorporated into purses, bags, sweaters and wall hangings. -More than 50 full-color illustrations easily guide knitters through projects -Level of difficulty indicator helps knitters prioritize projects -Easy-to-follow instructions suit any level knitter
Tee up with a fun and easy golfing primer. Amusing and informative, this miniature quick-reference guide to the sport covers the basics-how to drive, chip, putt, and look like a pro on the course. Discover the rules and etiquette of the game, the elements of a proper swing, and essential dos and don'ts for the green. More For Dummies Miniature Editions
An easy-to-read collection of short essays meant to uplift and inspire soccer moms everywhere, this addition to the Don't Sweat the Small Stuff series offers nothing more nor less than its predecessors. Carlson (whose husband, Richard, wrote the original book) joined him in writing Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love. This time, she relates many first-person stories from her own life and those of her friends in a just-between-us-girls tone that's based in part on gender stereotypes (e.g., "our gift of female intuition"; "our sensitive natures"). Her chatty pep talks cover such topics as comparing oneself to media images, overextending oneself, preventing and coping with stress and learning to say "no." Carlson advises women to appreciate their children's "fleeting" childhoods, to speak and listen from a place of love, to swallow angry words and gossip, to take time for themselves, to nurture friendships with other women and to keep tabs on their financial position and marketability in case they lose their spo
Crochet has emerged into the 21st century with a complete makeover. For decades it had been a craft pursued mainly by the older generation, but with the introduction of thick cottons and luxurious natural yams in sumptuous colors, crochet has zoomed back into fashion. Many of the world's top designers have recognized its growing popularity and crochetis now found on the catwalks and in fashion- houses all over the world. Crochet is having its heyday. The Cool Girl's Guide to Crochet includes everything you need to know to make exciting accessoriesand garments to a beautiful finish. There is step- by-step photography, invaluable information and practical advice on what equipment you will need, where to buy it and how to use it. Instructions on simple crochet stitches are clear and easy to follow and will turn you from a beginner to an expert in no time. Using yarns with strong, fashionable colors, 20 exquisite patterns are featured: including awrap-over cardigan; a funky flowered beaded belt, a dai
If you think dating is a simple process——meet someone, ask him or her for a date or get asked out yourself, try not to come off as a drooling moron, then arrange to get together for a second date or cut your losses and work to meet someone else——well, lucky you。 For many people, it’s far more complicated than that, and Dr。 Joy Browne addresses those complexities in Dating for Dummies。 Exactly how do you meet a potential date? How do you present yourself in the most favorable light? How do you negotiate that first date? (One interesting story Browne tells is of a couple who negotiated a weekend together, deciding whether or not they’d have sex, and under what conditions they’d consider marriage and children——all before their first date。) And how do you proceed from there? The process still comes down to chemistry, but Browne shows how many ways there are to make sure you get your best possible chance with Mr./Ms. Right。 ——This text refers to an out