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            <title>Adventures in Parenting</title>
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            <description>This is a free, online textbook offered by the National Institute of Child Health &amp;amp; Human Development. &quot;Based on decades of NICHD research on parenting, this 62-page booklet gives parents the tools they need to make their own decisions about successful parenting. The booklet provides real-world examples and stories about how some families include responding, preventing, monitoring, modeling, and mentoring in their own daily parenting activities.&#1524;</description>
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            <title>Communication Skills</title>
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            <description>This resource has been compiled to give a general introduction to effective communication for practice educators.In the first section, the key components of the communication process will be discussed. The basic skills required foreffective communication will be explored in the next few sections, and some specific contexts for communication,including giving presentations and feedback meetings, will be examined.</description>
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            <title>An Activity Book for African American Families: Helping Children Cope with Crisis</title>
            <link>http://www.merlot.org/merlot/viewMaterial.htm?id=514049</link>
            <description>This is a free, online textbook offered by the National Institute of Child Health &amp;amp; Human Development. &quot;This 94-page activity book, from the NICHD and the National Black Child Development Institute, provides information and resources that can help parents instill a sense of safety in their children during times of crisis, through creative activities that encourage communication. The book is part of an effort to give parents tools to help their children handle crises.&apos;</description>
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            <title>Key skill assessment: Communication</title>
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            <description>Communication is part of everyone&apos;s life. Being able to communicate  clearly and effectively - orally, visually and in writing - underpins  nearly everything we do. Developing your communication skills will help  you recognise your strengths as well as areas where you could improve.  In developing and assessing your communication skills, you will learn to  recognise, adapt and use your skills confidently and effectively in  different situations and contexts. This unit is designed to be studied  for 1 hour per week over 50 weeks.</description>
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            <title>Peace: Contemplating Contentment</title>
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            <description>Using lessons from various religions around the world based on the lessons of self-examination they teach as a form of self-exploration.</description>
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            <title>The NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD): Findings for Children up to Age 4 1/2 Years</title>
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            <description>This is a free, online book offered by the National Institute of Child Health &amp;amp; Human Development. This book &quot;describes the findings from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (SECCYD). The NICHD started the SECCYD in 1991 to collect information about different non-maternal child care arrangements, about children and families who use these arrangements and those who do not, and child outcomes. This booklet explains the Study&apos;s findings for children from birth to age 4 1/2 years.&#1524;</description>
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