SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia is a user-friendly guide to 21st century media for children with smart, busy parents. Built around the framework of the remote control, this book offers short chapters on each button, with a twist. The chapter on the COLOR button is about the importance of on-screen diversity, since children always look for faces like their own. The SELECT button is about advertising that targets children. And in a tongue-in-cheek nod to a network that doesn’t seem to offer any, the BALANCE button is about news. And so on. There is no other book about TV like SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia. It presents facts and trends in an engaging format, and offers activities, info, web sites, resources, quotes from kids and other VIP’s (from Jon Stewart to John Lennon), drawings by schoolchildren, and cartoons by the legendary John Callahan. Funny, informative, progressive and thought-provoking, SPONGEHEADZ: U & MEdia gives parents a way to make sense of our TV-saturated world.

Over 250 conversation starters for your most difficult roommate situations! Are your roommate’s dirty dishes, dirty clothes, or lack of hygiene grossing you out? Are you sleep-deprived from your roommate’s all-nighters in the bunk above you? Does your roommate “borrow” your things without asking? When you filled out your roommate questionnaire, you probably didn’t bargain for this. Now you’re living with tape down the middle of the dorm room, and you swear you won’t make it to the end of the semester. Should you give in or get out? My Roommate is Driving Me Crazy! shows you how to deal with personality clashes, communication breakdowns, broken friendships, gossip and backstabbing, and threatening behavior and serious mental health issues.

Circle of F.R.I.E.N.D.S. is a program for girls ages eight to fourteen, that teaches them how to: develop a positive self-image, maintain healthy friendships, solve conflicts with effective communication, build emotional strength and manage their stress. This guide is for teachers, parents, scout leaders, camp counselors, therapists, and community and church leaders. In addition to step-by-step instructions for getting started it includes: sixty-five small group activities, ice breakers, parent letters with tips for at-home support, reproducible handouts on CD ROM capable & confident! Raising Empowered Girls audio program, and one year of free consultation on how to use and present this material.