A Quick Overview of the best resources for Parents, Educators and Caretakers:

For a better understanding of what your child goes through in middle school, and how you can help: 

A Woman of Strength and Purpose

As a strong-willed woman, you meet the world head-on, undeterred by those who say something can’t be done. When applied in the right ways, your God-given passion produces clear-eyed purpose, deep compassion, and a bold spirit that can change the world. But sometimes your determination leads to misunderstandings and fractured relationships.

Cynthia Tobias knows firsthand the positive potential of a strong will channeled appropriately. In A Woman of Strength and Purpose, she offers practical strategies for applying your confidence and drive to enrich your friendships, career, ministry, marriage, and parenting. You’ll also hear from hundreds of other women who share your strong will and the desire to use it for God.

You don’t need to silence your strengths. Instead, let God use them to impact your world for good.

Middle School: The Inside Story
What Kids Tell Us, But Don’t Tell You 

Remember middle school? Many parents would rather not. It’s often a rough ride, filled with insecurity, peer pressure, awkwardness, and world-rocking change. This book provides practical, hands-on advice for helping your child through this minefield – with information about what he or she is really going through, but isn’t likely to share.

In Middle School: The Inside Story, Cynthia and veteran teacher Sue Acuña reveal what they’ve found by listening to kids when parents aren’t around – and give you insider tips on how to bless your middle-schooler with success in class, at home, and in relationships. Topics include advice for keeping communication lines open, predictable physical and social issues, and solutions for problems like self-centeredness and over-the-top emotions.

For extra insight from Middle School: The Inside Story, check out and download this article from Focus on the Family’s Thriving Family magazine.

For getting to know your own learning style, and those of your children:

The Way They Learn
How To Discover and Teach to Your Child’s Strengths

This book is the cornerstone and foundation for identifying and understanding learning style strengths, and a quick, easy read -even for reluctant readers! You’ll discover how fearfully and wonderfully each person is made, and recognize specific traits and characteristics of dominant learning style patterns. This book is a keeper – you’ll use it for a reference over and over.

For practical strategies to use immediately:

Every Child Can Succeed
How to Make The Most of Your Child’s Learning Style

A practical hands-on book packed with strategies you can immediately use with all kinds of learning styles. You’ll find chapters dealing with specific school and study skills issues, ideas for dealing with your child’s teachers, strategies for turning your family’s differences into great teamwork, and ways to help tell the difference between learning styles and learning disabilities. The Appendix of the book contains copyright-free student profiles for preschool through adults.

For Frustrated Parents of a Strong-Willed Child:

You Can’t Make Me (But I Can Be Persuaded)
Strategies For Bringing Out the Best in Your Strong-Willed Child

It’s easy to recognize the typical strong-willed child–difficult to discipline, seemingly impossible to motivate, strong-willed children present unique, exhausting, and often frustrating challenges to those who care for them. Learn how to gain insight into how a strong-willed child’s mind works. Recognize why your strong-willed-child may choose not to obey, learn to share control without compromising parental authority and discover positive ways to approach and motivate your strong-willed child. This book offers a wealth of practical information, valuable insights, and hands-on instruction for parents and educators—a must-read for all who deal with a strong will in one they love.

If you want to make this the best school year ever:

I Hate School!
How to Help Your Child Love Learning

Even students who are getting good grades often hate school. Could it have anything to do with the fact that they have to sit in uncomfortable desks, come at the wrong time of day, and frequently have to pay attention to a lot of information that is presented in ways that don’t make sense to them?  This fast-paced, easy-to-understand book that will challenge parents to confront the fundamental way we teach our children, providing immediately useful, practical ways to make school more about students actually learning – even if the system refuses to change.

Check out my free, downloadable school choice guide here!

A Matter Of Style
Practical Advice In Bite-Sized Pieces (DVD and Workbook)

Even students who are getting good grades often hate school. Could it have anything to do with the fact that they have to sit in uncomfortable desks, come at the wrong time of day, and frequently have to pay attention to a lot of information that is presented in ways that don’t make sense to them?  This fast-paced, easy-to-understand book that will challenge parents to confront the fundamental way we teach our children, providing immediately useful, practical ways to make school more about students actually learning – even if the system refuses to change.

A Quick Overview of the best resources for Emergency Responders Organizations and Corporate:

For getting to know your own working style, and those of your coworkers:

The Way We Work
A Practical Approach For Dealing With People On The Job

This book takes the learning styles information into the corporate marketplace with a refreshingly practical and easy-to-read volume. Using familiar examples of communications breakdowns and on-the-job conflicts, Cynthia reveals a powerful plan for transforming your professional and business relationships.

This book has been effectively used with corporations such as General Motors, Merrill Lynch, Walt Disney, L.A.P.D., Marine Corp Civilian Law Enforcement, Fire and Rescue services, and numerous other businesses and government agencies.

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