Bøger af Jessica Palmer

Illustrator and papercutter, Jessica Palmer, has created 80 pages of enchanting hand-drawn pictures with a woodland theme for you to colour in. Each one includes a 'hidden jewel', intricately worked into the design.

Discover 80 pages of spellbinding hand-drawn pictures with a magical theme for you to colour in. Each page includes a 'hidden charm' to be found within the design.

In a world where dreams have the power to transcend boundaries, there lived a little girl named Maya whose imagination knew no limits. Maya also known as "Rocket Girl" is a captivating tale that follows Maya on her extraordinary journey of passion, determination, and the pursuit of becoming and astronaut.With her eyes gleaming like the night sky, Maya's fascination with rockets and space exploration was evident from a young age. In her small town nestled beneath a canopy of stars, she embarked on a remarkable adventure that would inspire generations to come.

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men." - Frederick DouglassIt's our responsibility to raise strong, positive, confident children. The truth is, sometimes we come to a roadblock, where we've tried everything we know and yield no encouraging results.The saying, "It takes a village to raise a child" is indeed true. Sometimes we need help. To pull from another parent's depository and apply to our own. That is why Jessica Palmer created these helpful, navigational guides to cultivating positive and confident kids.If you have been struggling with improving your child's behaviors toward life or building their self-esteem, then this 2-in-1 bundle is for you.With over twenty-two years of parenting experience, Jessica Palmer knows firsthand how difficult it is to nurture ambitious, confident, positive children. With profound understanding and shrewd advice, she has helped countless parents save their children by reconstructing their behaviors and outlook on life.Book One, The Positive Child will guide you to effectively transforming not just your relationship with your child, but also their view on what makes a great, positive life and a happy, healthy home. Some of the areas explored are: Becoming your child's best exampleRespecting your child's space and life decisionsEmpowering instead of shamingEncouraging creativity and independent definitionsTeaching emotional intelligenceSetting high expectationsPracticing family ritualsBuilding meaningful relationshipsBook Two, The Confident Child, will steer you to eradicating self-doubt, low self-esteem, and anxiety from your child's life while building inner strength, self-confidence, and assurance. Some of the paths taken to achieving these goals are: Improving your own confidenceResisting comparisonTry new things/Develop new skillsOvercoming fear of failureExpressing their feelingsSurrounding them with positive, confident peopleTreating mistakes as building blocks for learningOff the internet and into the real worldNip over-praising in the budThe adults our children grow up to become relies heavily on how much we invest into grooming them as children. It starts with us. Our children are our contribution to the future. Take action now and start constructing aspiring, independent-thinking, virtuous, assertive, ethical, obstacle-shattering children who will make you proud.This exceptional, wisdom-spilling bundle will facilitate you with everything you need to get started.Now, let's get to work.

"The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence." - Denis Waitley You want the best for your child, it's true, and you might think "the best" is gifting them with material things that will only bring momentary happiness. For those of you who can't afford to do so, you see yourselves as failing parents.The truth is, what saves our children, what saves a family, are the things that can't be bought, but can only be taught, learned, and practiced.The Positive Child was written with every parent in mind, whether well-off or struggling, new or seasoned, for those who think they've got this parenting thing in the bag, and for those who have no idea what they're doing.Jessica Palmer, mother of four, wants to help you build a healthy, happy, positive home, by starting with you. Your attitude, your ideals, your beliefs. It is not the lifestyle that you can or can't afford for your child that will morph them into phenomenal adults, it's how you live and what you practice in the home. In this eye-opening guide, Jessica shares a bucketload of sagacious tips and tricks on how to cultivate healthy, positive behaviors in kids, using guiding principles such as: Becoming your child's best exampleRespecting your child's space and life decisionsEmpowering instead of shamingEncouraging creativity and independent definitionsTeaching emotional intelligenceSetting high expectationsPracticing family ritualsBuilding meaningful relationshipsAfter raising four happy, healthy, ambitious kids, Jessica is more than confident in her methods for fostering positive, vibrant children. In The Positive Child, you will find a range of workable, efficient, and adaptable strategies based on values, moralities, and ethics.Do you really want to give your child the best life? The life they truly deserve? The life that will shape them into determinedly successful adults?Then this is where you start.

Is your child dealing with self-doubt, low self-esteem, or social anxiety? Are they beaten down by the slightest failure? Do they give up easily? Our confidence is what gets us through life. It's our helmets, our lifejackets, our seatbelts, our mouthguards.Seeing your child battle with low self-esteem and self-doubt is not easy, and your first inclination might be to lock them in a bubble and shield them from the harsh realities of life. But taking that approach will undoubtedly do them more harm than good.In this remarkable guide, The Confident Child, Jessica Palmer, mother of four, will take you through a step-by-step process of building your child's confidence. With two collegians, two high-schoolers, and four different personalities, Palmer has had to practice unique methods for building confidence in each individual child.Armed with twenty-two years of experience and tried-and-true strategies, Palmer will teach you the right approach with practical, straightforward, applicable instructions that will have your child suited up in the armor of extreme confidence in no time. Some areas explored are: Improving your own confidenceResisting comparisonTrying new things/Develop new skillsOvercoming fear of failureExpressing their feelingsSurrounding them with positive, confident peopleTreating mistakes as building blocks for learningOff the internet and into the real worldNip over-praising in the budConfidence cannot be bought or given, it takes consistent practice and willful determination. The steps outlined in this book is all you need to start nurturing strong, assertive, self-assured little adults who will conquer every obstacle thrown their way and fail like a winner. Not only will their newfound confidence make navigating life much easier and rewarding for them, but it will boost your confidence as a parent.The Confident Child has everything you will ever need for building your child's confidence. Ready to do what it takes as a parent to save our children from a life of defeating misery?Let's get started...

Jessica Palmer has had 28 books published, both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels - horror, fantasy and science fiction - were released by Pocket Books in the United States and Scholastic in the United Kingdom. She has written two textbooks about Native American history, which were published by McFarland, and an encyclopedia of natural history released by Harper Collins' label Element Books and later by Thorson in the UK. Palmer has also written ten science-and-technology manuals on the topics of explosives and radiation. These were distributed globally. It was this work that brought her to Great Britain in 1988.The daughter of a professional clown, Palmer refers to her switch to writing fiction as an exercise in damage limitation. She taught classes and conducted workshops on creative writing and publishing at North Shropshire College in Whitchurch, Stanmore College and the Islington Arts Factory in London. As a journalist, Palmer won awards in New Mexico and Texas for writing features, public service and breaking news - the most recent in 2013. Palmer has also written satirical columns for newspapers, including "A Slice of Life" and "How to Make Love to your Personal Computer."Her two loves are writing and animals. She started a nonprofit in Kansas for wildlife rescue and has held a wildlife rehabilitation permit since 2002.Other Visions of Heaven and Hell are a series of sometimes inter-related stories about our ideas of Heaven and Hell, sometimes hilarious - sometimes horrific - but always entertaining.

Jessica Palmer was born in Chicago, Illinois. Her mother became a professional clown when she was in her teens, leaving Palmer irrevocably altered. She received her degree in nursing and worked in hospitals, starting with medical-surgical units. Eventually, she settled into psychiatric nursing where she got along famously with her patients.Her medical background presented opportunities to write. In 1976, she was asked to develop a script for educational television, entitled Journey to Nowhere, about the medical aspects of addiction. Later she became a technical writer for the safety and health department at Schlumberger Well Services with an emphasis on explosives and radiation. The job took her to England where she became a British subject.The fates decreed her combined experiences constituted a hazard to herself and others. Palmer returned to her first love, genre fiction. She wrote her first novel at the age of nine - ninety-nine typewritten pages about her then-hero Max Smart of Get Smart. Altogether, she has had 28 books published in fiction and non-fiction, including university textbooks about Native American history and culture.Palmer has received numerous awards in journalism, spanning a period from 1980 to 2014. Dark Lullaby, published by Pocket Books, was nominated for HWA's Bram Stoker award in 1991. Now she concentrates on satire. Parallel Universe Publications released her collection of short stories, Other Visions of Heaven and Hell in 2015.

This book addresses key questions about the division of property when a marriage, civil union, de facto relationship, or other close personal relationship ends. The book adopts a conceptual approach to property division, using New Zealand's current law as a basis for critical analysis and drawing on international and comparative perspectives.