Even Generals Take Out The Garbage (Character Building Books for Kids) - Softcover

McAdams, David E

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1632706695 ISBN 13: 9781632706690

Publisher: Life Is a Story Problem LLC, 2025

Synopsis

This book teaches children that everyone does chores. As you read this book with your child, make sure the child understands the chores you and other members of the family do. Here are some more hints to make children's chores less of a burden and more a part of family life:

When children do chores, they are benefited in may ways.

• They gain a sense of responsibility.
• Completing tasks improves their self esteem.
• They learn the value of work and teamwork.
• They learn life skills that will serve them their whole lives.
• They gain an understanding of the effort it takes to maintain a clean, orderly home.

Getting children to do chores can feel like an uphill battle. However, with the right approach, it can eventually become a smooth and even enjoyable process. Some things that help children learn to do chores are:

• Setting expectations at an early age.
• Make sure to frame the chores and a natural part of life and not a punishment.
• Make the chores fun. Turn tasks into games, such as "Who can clean their rooms the fastest?". Add music to focus energy and attention.
• Make a reward system such as stickers. Keep in mind it is important to emphasize the intrinsic value of completing chores, such as "Isn't it nice to play in a clean room."
• Lead by example. Make sure you frame things you do around the house as chores, "This morning I have three chores: Make breakfast, do the dishes, and sweep the kitchen." Show a positive attitude about housework.
• Give children a sense of control over their work. Let them pick what to do first, or when to start the chore.

Eventually, children will see chores as a part of family life, and not as a burden.

About this title

About the Author

After 30 years of software development, David McAdams was looking for something new to do. He turned his attention to how math is taught. Through his coursework at Utah Valley University, he learned how critical vocabulary acquisition is to all learning, and especially to math. Math has long been regarded as its having its own language, with its own syntax and symbols. The acquisition of this language has been found to be a barrier to many students.

After the completion of his internship, Mr. McAdams finished compiling math vocabulary words into a comprehensive dictionary, written for middle school and high school students. "All Math Words Dictionary" is the culmination of ten years work collecting, classifying and describing all of the words a student might encounter in their studies of algebra, geometry, and calculus. This book has over 3000 entries; more than 140 notations defined; in excess of 790 illustrations; an IPA pronunciation guide; and greater than 1400 formulas and equations.

While working on the dictionary, between playing with his grandchildren, Mr. McAdams started developing other ideas for math literacy. The results are "Numbers", "What is Bigger than Anything (Infinity)", "Swing Sets (Set Theory)", and "Learning with Play Money".

Branching out, Mr. McAdams took a departure from tools for teaching math, moving into the arena of pure mathematical delight. This results in two volumes of "My Favorite Fractals".

While reading a book on color names to his grandson Sawyer, he got to thinking how boring books on color names are for adults. "What in the natural," he mused, "has enough of the primary and secondary colors to teach color names to children?" His first answer was either frogs or parrots. He created "Parrot Colors", "Flower Colors", "Space Colors" and "People Colors".

Just for the fun of it, Mr. McAdams wrote "Even Generals Take Out The Garbage", - Using examples accessible to children, teaches that everyone does chores. For ages 3-7.

Where Does the Water Go? - A simple explanation of where the water goes when using the bathroom. For ages 3-7.

If I Had a Monster - A delightfully illustrated picture book where monsters stand in for important people in childrens' lives. For ages 3-7

Returning to math, Mr. McAdams created a book to help children learn shapes, called "Shapes", another book called "The Red Neck Number Book". He remembered how, in his youth, he found a few printouts of geometric nets and was fascinated how they folded together into complex, 3-dimensional objects. He prepared "Geometric Nets Project Book", then "Geometric Nets Mega Project Book" with many geometric nets to cut out and assemble.

What can one get for the math aficionado who has everything? Mr McAdams created the books "The First Million Digits of Pi", "The First Million Digits of e", "The Square Root of Two to One Million Digits", "The First Hundred Thousand Prime Numbers".

Many young math learners become fascinated with how math works. Mr. McAdams wrote "One Penny, Two" to illustrate through a stories how fast powers of two increase with each iteration. Jerry is given a magic box. If you put a penny in it, the pennies double each day as long as none are taken out. Jerry decides he wants a dark green convertible sports car. Follow Jerry's trials as he sets his sights on his goal.

Edition details

• Publisher: Life Is a Story Problem LLC
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1632706695
• ISBN 13: 9781632706690
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 34