Offers advice and guidance to help teenagers make good choices and take positive risks, including information on internet safety, bullying, drugs, abuse, and emergency situations.
The Willow Street Kids series is about a group of schoolfriends and the situations they face during the year. Each story is based on a real incident to explain how to deal with the pressures of growing up and how to cope, avoid, overcome, and recover from a variety of problems from bullying to abuse.
The rewards you can reap from exploring this amazing planet are incalculable. Every year, more and more of us are discovering the joy, the excitement, the sheer sense of adventure in roaming the world. But travelling, particularly to the more remote and volatile corners of the globe, can be a dangerous business. If you don't prepare properly - by looking for potential hazards and learning how best to deal with them - you may wish you'd never started out. Written by international security expert Lloyd Figgins, using his experience of over 80 countries, The Travel Survival Guide is a unique new travel guide and essential reading for anyone planning an overseas trip, whether on business, as a tourist or gap-year traveller. If you want no-nonsense, easy-to-follow, practical advice on how to recognise the warning signs, how to prevent problems and cope with emergencies (should they occur), this is the book for you.
Gripping and sobering 'rules of the road', blend with humorous wisdom in this essential guide for new drivers. Going beyond mundane rules of the road, Assaf draws from their extensive experience to impart core skills every responsible driver needs. You'll learn defensive driving techniques, hazard awareness, the physics of speed, and most importantly - the mindset to prioritize safety over flashy skills. Packed with engaging anecdotes and insights, this book provides the real-world understanding to become not just a capable driver, but a good driver. If you want driving mastery without sacrificing fun, start your engines and hit the road with this indispensable co-pilot!
Is your child safe on the road? Find out in this book how children can be kept safe on the road in this beautifully laid out story. It is a story that is engaging, brilliantly written about a boy who loved football, and kept following his football onto the main road. It helps children to Keep safe at an early age.
The whirlwind of social media, online dating, and mobile apps can make life a dream—or a nightmare. For every trustworthy website, there are countless jerks, bullies, and scam artists who want to harvest your personal information for their own purposes. But you can fight back, right now. In The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy, award-winning author and investigative journalist Violet Blue shows you how women are targeted online and how to keep yourself safe. Blue’s practical, user-friendly advice will teach you how to: –Delete personal content from websites –Use website and browser privacy controls effectively –Recover from and prevent identity theft –Figure out where the law protects you—and where it doesn’t –Set up safe online profiles –Remove yourself from people-finder websites Even if your privacy has already been compromised, don’t panic. It’s not too late to take control. Let The Smart Girl’s Guide to Privacy help you cut through the confusion and start protecting your online life.
You have the power to protect yourself and others! What does it mean to be safe? Does it mean beating a throw to home plate? Does it mean never taking risks? No! Being safe is about feeling secure, feeling protected and being responsive--no matter the environment or situation. You can be safe in so many simple ways. From being aware of your limits to creating healthy boundaries. By not giving in to peer pressure and by standing up to bullies. And by being safe on the Internet, or knowing the right time to get a caring adult's help. This revised and updated addition to the award-winning What Does It Mean to Be...? series is the perfect book to spark meaningful dialogue and ensure every child knows what it means to be safe.
Is your child safe online? Find out in this book how children can be kept safe online in this beautifully laid out story. It is a story that is engaging, brilliantly written about a boy who bought a very peculiar computer It happened it was a talking computer. The computer spoke each time the boy does wrong And barked out orders when ever he visited an unsafe site. It’s a story about online safety with a twist of brilliance.
Leading family psychologist and personal therapist to Jaycee Dugard, Rebecca Bailey tells parents how to keep their children safe in this accessible, must-have guidebook, with a foreword by Terry Probyn, Jaycee's mother. Whether their children are toddlers or teens, six years old or sixteen, whether they live in a rural town, suburb, or a bustling city, all parents worry about threats—from cyber-bullying to exploitation and abduction. What should they tell their children and when? What practical steps can they take to reduce the risks and keep their kids safe? Dr. Rebecca Bailey, with the assistance of her sister and registered nurse, Elizabeth, gives easily understood, easily followed answers. Safe Kids, Smart Parents builds on Dr. Bailey’s years of experience as a family psychologist helping real families deal with real situations. From abduction to abuse, Bailey explains how parents can speak to their kids about troubling topics while building their self-esteem and teaching them how to protect themselves. A smart, comprehensive, and easy-to-read resource, Safe Kids, Smart Parents is the most important book a parent can own.