Books about Caring for Kids
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- Camp Counselor Smart Guide
- Summer Camp Jobs USA
- Lark’s Magic (novel)
- Child Maintenance
- 101 Problems in Child Maintenance
- 101 Answers in Child Maintenance
- Kids Play Games: 101 Active Games for Happy Children (coming in April)
- Instant Drama (coming in May)
- Teaching Kindness and Peace (coming in May)
- Zen and the Art of Child Maintenance (novel, coming in June)
- 37 Summers: My Years as a Camp Director …. by Arthur Sharenow
- The Summer Camp Uprising … a novel by Arthur Sharenow
Camp Counselor Smart Guide
How to Work with and Play with Kids
at Summer Camp
The campers are coming! The campers are coming! Will you be ready to care for the kids ?
Here, in one lively book, is everything you need to learn for confidence, charisma, success, and happiness in your job at summer camp. The 41 chapters (and 300 pages) are packed with practical ideas, savvy techniques, and super-fun games you can use as soon as you open the book. Available in 2 formats: paperback and hardcover.
Summer Camp Jobs USA
Find Your Job, Get Your Job, Love Your Job
Summer Camp Jobs USA is packed with detailed information about how to land the best jobs at summer camps in the USA. This book explains:
◎ Where to look for the jobs
◎ How to apply for the jobs, and
◎ How to match your unique skills and interests with the ideal camp that is just right for you.
You’ll also learn how to study for the job interview, and how to increase your chances for job-getting success.
Available in 2 formats: paperback and Kindle ebook.
Lark’s Magic
a funny novel by Michael Pastore
Like no other modern novel, Lark’s Magic captures the happy spirit of childhood, humor, and summer camp. Mingled with the fun, games, riddles, stories, and songs are inspiring themes: friendship, reading good books, the joy of nature, the power of play and creativity, and finding the courage to follow your own true heart.
Child Maintenance
How to Respond to Misbehavior
without Force, Rewards, or Punishments
The goal of Child Maintenance is to nurture happy, resilient children: kids who are able to play, to appreciate Nature, to create, to love life, and to love learning.
Written for parents, grandparents, teachers, camp counselors, psychologists — and everyone who works with children — the book is a lively blend of sound ideas and practical advice. This book will help you to:
◎ Find responses to misbehavior that are caring & calm.
◎ Give up the negative never-ending cycle of punishing, threatening, and yelling at kids.
◎ Understand what misbehavior is, and why children misbehave.
◎ Prevent misbehavior by encouraging active play, and nourishing the child’s creativity.
◎ Transform problems into opportunities that teach the child the essential skills of resilience and self-reliance.
101 Problems in Child Maintenance
Real-Life Training Situations
for Everyone who Words with Kids
101 Problems in Child Maintenance teaches one aspect of the art of Child Maintenance: how to respond non-aggressively, sincerely, and creatively whenever your children misbehave. This book will help you to:
◆ Teach yourself how to find responses to misbehavior that are calm, caring, and creative.
◆ Give up the lose-lose cycle of punishing, threatening, and yelling at kids.
◆ Understand what misbehavior is, why children misbehave, and what you can do — and stop doing — to help each child to fulfill her or his optimum potential.
◆ Transform problems into opportunities that teach the child the essential skills of resilience and self-reliance.
All the 101 problems in this book have been drawn from life — they really happened!
101 Answers in Child Maintenance
Answer Guide to
101 Problems in Child Maintenance
101 Answers in Child Maintenance contains no questions, but all the brief answers to our paperback book 101 Problems in Child Maintenance. These two books help parents, teachers, camp counselors — and everyone who works with children — to cultivate positive, caring, and creative relationships with their energetic kids. In addition to the answers and strategies, also included are resources for discovering your own solutions; a glossary of Key Ideas in Child Maintenance; inspiring quotations; and more. 101 Answers in Child Maintenance continues our series of books explaining how to work and play with kids without using force, without rewards, and without punishments.
Kids Play Games
101 Active Games for Happy Children
This book is for parents, teachers, summer camp staff, grandparents, child-care workers: everyone who works with or plays with kids. Kids Play Games contains 101 active games and activities for children ages 6 through 17, and for grownups who are supple of body and young at heart. The book’s philosophy is simple: Playing together gives children health, and happiness, and essential life-enhancing skills including self-reliance, cooperation, fairness, and confidence. The games are organized into seven types: 1) Superfun Game; 2) Ball Games; 3) Running and Chasing Games; 4) Tag Games; 5) Street and Schoolyard Games; 6) Large-Group Games; and 7) Future Games. This book also features 40 new games invented by the author, and published here for the first time. Available in April 2022.
37 Summers
My Years as a Camp Director
by Arthur Sharenow
Through a series of short stories and character portraits, we learn of the joys, trials and surprises that make up the life of the Director of a children’s summer camp. Arthur writes “there are very few people who have the opportunity to create a world of their own, a world where the only two goals are the growth and the happiness of its inhabitants.”
The Summer Camp Uprising
a novel by Arthur Sharenow
The Summer Camp Uprising revolves around the conflicts of three men. Nelson Cohen is the camp owner and director, who for years has been doing things his way with great success. Vico Leone, the new Head Counselor, manages staff motivation and discipline. Joey Katz, boys’ group leader, is a college student active in protesting the war. Joey is vocal in his opposition to the camp’s restrictive rules for counselors. The conflict of cultures is ripe to explode — and does.
