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Executive Function and Self-Regulation in Children    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $0.99 USD. 2230 words. Published on February 19, 2010. .

Executive function and self-regulation are two capacities important to child development. This article describes what these two terms mean, illustrates main points with case examples, and provides guidelines for parents and professionals.
A NEATS Analysis of Childhood Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $0.99 USD. 3560 words. Published on February 19, 2010. .

Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) require special care. This article describes ADHD, illustrates main points with case examples, and provides guidelines for parents and professionals. The article covers neurobiology, executive function, attachment, trauma, and self-regulation (NEATS).
Two Boys, Similar Backgrounds: One Goes To Prison and One Does Not: Why?    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $1.29 USD. 1370 words. Published on February 19, 2010. .

This article tells the stories of two boys who grew up in the same middle-class neighborhood. One went to prison and the other did not. What were the differences in these two lives?
What Child Sexual Abuse Means to Abusers    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $1.29 USD. 6090 words. Published on February 20, 2010. .

Child sexual abuse means many things to abusers, but they rarely see what they do as abuse. This article shows in perpetrators’ own words what child sexual abuse means to them. By understanding what abusers get out of sexual abuse, survivors can see that who is at fault. It is not survivors. By "starting where abusers are," more effective policies and programs are possible.
Protecting Children from Child Sexual Abuse    by Jane Gilgun
Price: $1.49 USD. 2020 words. Published on February 21, 2010. .

This article provides guidelines for protecting children from sexual abuse and what to do if children have been sexually abused.
Story Time Stories That Rhyme Newsletter Series Vol 2010    by Story Time Stories That Rhyme
Price: $3.00 USD. 2160 words. Published on February 22, 2010. .

Story Time Stories That Rhyme Newsletter Series Vol 2010 is a collection of educational, entertaining and informative stories and activities. Some of the contents include: Story Activity For Physical Education 4 Writing Words That Rhyme, 3 Making Stories From Lists Example A, 6 Making Stories From Lists Example B, 7 Making Stories From Lists Example C, 9 Story Ti
How to Teach Children to be Sex Offenders    by Jane Gilgun
Price: Free! 7260 words. Published on February 23, 2010. .

This small book outlines steps parents can take to teach children how to be sex offenders. It's easy. This part is satire. Next I discuss what parents and a concerned public can do to prevent children from becoming sex offenders. Prevention is hard. People must really want to do it. Apparently, not enough of us do. So, we will keep on raising children to be sex offenders. Is that what we want?
Disabling Environment and Innovations: New Provocative Courseware for New Media / Interactive Media Design    by Oguzhan Ozcan
Price: $2.73 USD. 1060 words. Published on March 8, 2010. .

Despite this abundance it is not easy for designers to create aesthetic novelties in new media /interactive media design, to break free from ordinariness. In this courseware, we explore answers to the problematic of how to begin to stimulate more designer creativity in new media/interactive media design while at the same time preserving the design’s functionality
Saba (Sā-bə)    by Mary Jane
Price: $0.99 USD. 114070 words. Published on March 20, 2010. .

While diving in the Caribbean, Aaron and Erin Sandkuhler visit exotic Saba. There they have the Perfect Day: the weather, the diving, the food, everything is perfect. When they return to Washington D.C. and find life lacking they decide another vacation is in order - a permanent vacation. They move to Saba to live in paradise. Of course, not even the Garden of Eden met such lofty expectations.
Silent Genocide: American Education and the Massacre of the Black Mind    by Joel Plummer
Price: $2.99 USD. 24730 words. Published on March 22, 2010. .

Silent Genocide is an examination of the devastating effect that the American educational system has had on the minds of Black students. Everyday, schools thoroughly train Black students to be obedient servants and defenders of the social, political, and cultural order that oppresses them. This text succinctly explains the problem and offers a solution that frees Black minds from their bondage.