Table of Contents
Preface: Why? Acknowledgments: Thank you Introduction: How Chapter 1: Do’s & Don’ts Chapter 2: One Step Ahead Buy Now. .. Uh Oh. .. No Time? Simplify The Dreaded Homework Tipping the Scales Chapter 3: Action Figures “No Thanks” Which Way? Rain, Rain, Rain Sick to Your Stomach Adults Make Decisions, too Chapter 4: Opinion Lab Back It Up. .. The Majority Rules Open Minds Fill-in-the-Blanks Should I or Shouldn’t I? Honest Opinion? Chapter 5: Streamlining Stuff Write About “Anything” Too Many Library Books! Recipe for Friendship Mixed Up Zeroing In Pick a Number, Any Number! Chapter 6: Side By Side Meet the Inventors Gorilla or Elephant? Juggling Act Six Words Me, Me, & Me What’s In a Name? Take Me to Your Leader Who Says I’m Bossy? Companion Sidebar on Brainstorming Chapter 7: Don’t Jump! Is Seeing Believing? Scrumptious! Fair or Unfair? How Does Your Garden Grow? Race in the Park What’s Inside? Chapter 8: Huh? What Did You Say? Better Safe Than Sorry The Early Bird Gets the Worm Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew Don’t Count Your Chickens Before They Hatch Haste Makes Waste Two Heads Are Better Than one Chapter 9: How Did This Happen? Oh, That Little Voice Walking the Dog Who Did It? We Can You Never Know Imagine If Cause and No Effect Chapter 10: Words of Wisdom: From the Experts Chapter 11: Food for Thought: A Menu for Educators Leave It Alone Outside the Cocoon In My Opinion What Do I Really Think? Counterproductive Getting Full Wrong Foot Forward Cut It Down Who Me? Before It Spirals. .. About the Author