Dear Parents

NEWS FROM THE PEL LIBRARY:

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to another exciting year in the PEL Library! We have loads of new books and items for your family’s’ reading pleasure.

New books for parents are listed below.

A message to all JIS parents: Please remember that the JIS Library Catalog is available to you all on the Parentnet. On the catalog you can access books from all the JIS Libraries (PEL, PIE, Middle School and High School). Make JIS Libraries your family’s resource for books and information. If you are interested in getting a book from one of the other JIS Libraries, please let me know (email: rpolonsky@jisedu.or.id ) and we can have it delivered to PEL. If you need any help finding this information, please stop in the library.

You are all patron of the JIS Library system and may use your parent id as your library card. Father’s too!! Please stop by the PEL Library and model reading and library usage for your children.

Thanks,

Rhona Polonsky,

PEL Teacher Librarian

New Books for Parents:

HOMEWORK WITHOUT TEARS: This is a parent’s guide for motivating children to do homework and to succeed in school.

REVIVING OPHELIA: Saving the selves of adolescent girls: What is happening to the selves of adolescent girls? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorder, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with therapist, Mary Pipher. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty, a culture rife with addictions. This book is told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence.

SOLVE YOU CHILD’S SLEEP PROBLEMS: Incorporating new research, Dr. Ferber provides important basic information that all parents should know regarding the nature of sleep and the development of normal sleep and body rhythms throughout childhood. He discusses the cause of most sleep problems from birth to adolescence and recommends an array of proven solutions for each so that parents can choose the strategy that works best for them.

WHAT’S INSIDE YOUR TUMMY, MOMMY? This the only book you’ll need to explain exactly what goes on inside a pregnant mommy’s tummy. Month by month, spread by spread, the stages of pregnancy develop. Mothers-to-be can hold up the pages and use the life-size illustrations to show how the baby grows.

Many more books and topics are available to parents.

We also carry these magazines for your reading pleasures: Find them on a book shelf behind our couches.

Parenting Early Years

Additude: For People with Attention Deficit

Readers Digest

Mother Earth News: The Original Guide to Living Wisely

Jakarta Now

ENJOY!