Books with title Catching Them Young

Fully updated to match the revised EYFS Framework, this book takes practitioners step-by-step through the assessment process. It explains the terminology involved, demonstrates how to turn 'observation' into 'assessment', and sets out how to manage and interpret all the information you have gathered. Making assessment enjoyable, manageable and useful, Catching Them At It! is full of practical ideas and research-based advice. Including helpful checklists and thorough explanations of methods and terminology throughout, this book is an essential resource for all early years bookshelves.

I chose the wrong way with drugs and alcohol and now that I am in recovery, I have to deal with the choices that I made while using every day for the rest of my life.I destroyed my family, friends and my life. I have been handcuffed, arrested, locked up in jail, given a prison record many times, forcibly withdrawn from drugs, and then tossed back into the street for another drugs, alcohol and nicotine!I had thousands of Dollar in fines, inpatient rehab, car crashes and watched my friends die. If only I had chosen not to take the first drink or drug, my life would have totally been better and different.My advice is not to let other people make choices for you. Life is so much better without drugs and alcohol.I started using drugs in Junior Secondary School two (JSS2) at the age of 14 as a way to make friends and fit in. I was overweight, and other students teased me about it.“I wanted people to like me, and I wanted to feel accepted. And the easiest way to find that was with people who partied because they don’t care about myself lifestyle at all. As long as am partying, I'm good to go.”My use of drugs escalated, from alcohol and marijuana to pills and heroin. I was in and out of jail. I entered treatment at age 21 and has been into drugs and alcohol for about 7 years. I made My family life to be worse from the stress of my drug use. I became a total disgrace to my family for being a drug addict and was neglected by my parents. My father by name Danpollu talked about being angry that his son couldn’t conquer his addiction, and Aisha my mother explained how she enabled her son to the point that her marriage nearly crumbled.“She was the standard enabling mom. She protected me, she tried to fix me. She loved me to death yet I was gone. I was stealing, missing school, telling lies and failing most of my subjects. All this strange behavior started when I got involved with drugs.As a child, I had a loving family, a love of competition and sports, and good grades. My future was looking bright. What could possibly go wrong?