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Carol Barnier is a fresh, fun and popular Christian conference speaker unlike any you’ve heard before. Her objective is to have the wit of Erma Bombeck crossed with the depth of C.S. Lewis, but admits that on most days, she only achieves a solid Lucy Ricardo with a bit of Bob the Tomato. While her humor will have you leaning sideways, her faith is solid stuff. She may speak about her first born son’s 13 surgeries, her own family’s many ADHD challenges, or her personal faith walk from being a God-denying atheist to the most grateful recipient of God’s amazing grace. But whatever the topic, she speaks from the heart and knows why she knows what she knows. Carol is the author of The Big What Now Book of Learning Styles, How to Get Your Child off the Refrigerator and on to Learning, If I’m Diapering a Watermelon then Where’d I Leave the Baby?, and most recently Engaging Today’s Prodigal. She currently lives in Connecticut with her husband of 25 years and three children. To learn more about Carol, click here to visit her website.
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Does a 20 minute math lesson sometimes take hours? Does schoolwork end in tears or meltdowns day after day? Are you completely baffled by this kid’s inability to stay focused? Take charge of his learning by using his primary processing method—motion—and put it to use in every academic subject. Find fun, active, and effective ways to teach everything from reading to history. Written by a mom with four out of five family members having ADHD, you’ll connect with someone who gets it, who knows the challenges. Best of all you’ll read a wonderful reminder about seeing the gift in this child.
Many of the books on learning styles devote 98% of their text to identifying learning styles, then spend the remaining 2% telling you how to apply this knowledge. They are long on diagnosis and short on prescription. Carol Barnier knows from her own experience and from interactions with educators all across the country that while people are certainly interested in the “why”, they are in urgent need of the “how”, or the big “what now?” They need perfectly clear and practical information that can be applied tomorrow. In The Big What Now Book of Learning Styles, parents and teachers will find an emphasis on “what to do about it”. This book supplies hundreds of activities keyed to learning styles for easy access and application covers practical strategies for success in spelling, writing, math, history, geography, science, and more.
At last, a gloriously unregimented mom shares stories and strategies that help other highly distractible moms run a genuine, joyful, and successful home and homeschool! This book offers lots of practical tools to keep chaos at bay, and helps moms develop their strongest qualities - qualities that perhaps have been seen as weaknesses. Best of all, you will find new reasons to be excited about who you are, and you will discover how the qualities you possess are true gifts from God that make you a real asset to your family. Learn how working with your personality traits instead of constantly fighting against them makes it possible for you to: keep track of items that get lost at the worst possible moment, actually arrive on time or even early, access whatever information you need whenever you need it, limit the pesky interruptions that get you off task, get stuff to organize itself so you have more time to spend with your family, and organize and run a “delight-driven” home and/or homeschool.
Many families today experience the profound guilt and shame filled pain of seeing a child walk away from their faith and values. Churches and parents feel powerless to change the relationship and engage the prodigal in positive ways. Carol Barnier has the insight to help. She left the faith of her pastor father, became an active atheist, debated Christians, and explored a variety of worldviews before she found the truth in a relationship with Jesus. But far more than her personal story, Engaging Today’s Prodigal equips readers with a better understanding of a prodigal’s motivation, useful responses that won’t prevent reconciliation, clear boundaries to protect themselves and other children, actions to take when you know you have contributed to the problem, and the value of realistic expectations. Let Engaging Today’s Prodigal equip you with clear, specific actions that can overcome the shame, hurt, and loss to bring real hope for the future.