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The War for Children's Minds
ISBN: 9780415378550 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Political and religious leaders including Blair and Bush have been joined by the popular press in Enlightenment-bashing and bitter attacks on liberal parenting�, calling for a return to authority and religious tradition. How do we raise good children? How do we make good citizens? In defiant yet acute fashion, Stephen Law urges us to re-evaluate the liberal tradition of thinking about morality. Tackling authoritarian rhetoric head-on, he argues...
Behind headlines on the conflict in Iraq and global terrorism, a much deeper battle is raging over children and the values they should adopt. Politica...
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Rethinking Parent and Child Conflict
ISBN: 9780415930789 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict that takes into account relationships between the individual and society, this text considers how race, class, gender and age interact with daily domestic practice to produce parent-child conflict.
Drawing from Foucault's notion of power-knowledge-resistance and feminist poststructuralism to offer a re-theorisation of parent-child conflict that t...
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Starting in Our Own Backyards: How Working Families Can Build Community and Survive the New Economy
ISBN: 9780415935883 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by today's two-working-parent families and the often unfortunate consequences for the community. In an important departure from the ongoing debate, she offers a new paradigm for the relationship between paid and unpaid work that could invigorate both family life and the quality of civil society.
Containing interviews with more than 100 middle-class working parents in the Boston area, Bookman vividly illustrates the inherent conflicts faced by ...
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Raising Our Children to Be Resilient: A Guide to Helping Children Cope with Trauma in Today's World
ISBN: 9780415949064 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely and much-needed book, Linda Goldman addresses the many frightening events that impact our children by providing the reader with a seamless mixture of theory and practice garnered from her extensive experience in the field. Raising Our Children to Be Resilient includes trauma resolution techniques and case studies, discussions of the respective roles played by parents, teachers and the larger community as well as additional resources for those in a position to help children who have been traumatized. The goal of Raising Our Children to Be Resilient is exactly...
In this timely and much-needed book, Linda Goldman addresses the many frightening events that impact our children by providing the reader with a seaml...
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Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers--And How You Can Too
ISBN: 9780425205617 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Asians and Asian-Americans make up 4% of the U.S. population...and 20% of the Ivy League. Now find out how they do it.
The numbers speak for themselves: 18% of Harvard's population; 25% of Columbia's; 42% of Berkeley's; 24% of Stanford's; 25% of Cornell's... What are Asian parents doing to start their kids on the road to academic excellence at an early age? What can all parents do to help their children ace tests, strive to achieve, and reach educational goals? In this book, two sisters-a doctor and a lawyer whose parents came from South Korea to the U.S. with two Asians and Asian-Americans make up 4% of the U.S. population...and 20% of the Ivy League. Now find out how they do it.
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Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment
ISBN: 9780425217016 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The classic power struggle between parents and children- demystified.
Nationally recognized behavior management expert Lynne Reeves Griffin offers a commonsense yet radical approach to parenting that will enable adults to win the tug-of-war with their children about what is, and isn't, acceptable behavior. This proactive plan provides parents with the tools to reclaim their authority, establish boundaries, and cease negotiation tactics such as rewards and punishments, based on the specific ages and temperaments of each child. Featuring anecdotes from more than 20 years of parental... The classic power struggle between parents and children- demystified.
Nationally recognized behavior management expert Lynne Reeves Griffin offer... |
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Parents Who Think Too Much: Why We Do It, How to Stop
ISBN: 9780440508120 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the baby boom generation came the genre of parenting books that told parents how to teach their kids everything from toilet training to developing self-esteem. Generally the message has been: go easy on your child, but hard on yourself. It is starting to become apparent, especially in the best of families, that giving your kids lots of choices, validating their feelings at great peril to your own and providing "enough" individual attention for each child is creating a generation of kids over whom we have no control. Cassidy argues that this comes from over-thinking our role as...
With the baby boom generation came the genre of parenting books that told parents how to teach their kids everything from toilet training to developin...
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Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy: From Pregnancy Through Labor and Delivery . . . a Doctor's Step-By-Step Guide for Parent
ISBN: 9780440508786 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Twins...triplets...quads...finally The book that answers all your questions about multiple birth--written by a doctor who is a mother of twins herself Over ten years ago when Dr. Gila Leiter, herself an OB/GYN, was pregnant with twins, the book she desperately needed wasn'tavailable. Now it is: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Healthy Twin Pregnancy. Taking you step-by-step through the processes of pregnancy and birth, Dr. Leiter shares her professional and personal expertise, providing answers to all your questions, plus practical know-how, psychological support, and...
Twins...triplets...quads...finally The book that answers all your questions about multiple birth--written by a doctor who is a mother of twins hersel...
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Birth and Parenting Skills: New Directions in Antenatal Education
ISBN: 9780443074745 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A research-based, up-to-the minute account of the current status of antenatal education, focusing on the key challenges it faces in the future, offering suggestions for how these challenges might best be met. It describes some innovative approaches to accessing vulnerable groups of parents and how collaboration between the statutory and voluntary sectors might result in a better educational service for pregnant women and their families. Narratives from parents are analysed and commented upon, and underpinning the book will be an account of how the principles and practices of adult education...
A research-based, up-to-the minute account of the current status of antenatal education, focusing on the key challenges it faces in the future, offeri...
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Spoiled Rotten: Today's Children and How to Change Them
ISBN: 9780446395090 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It starts with designer diapers. It extends to extravagant birthday parties, leads to boorish behavior and plummeting grades. What is the problem here? It's what we are doing to our children by not having the smarts to set boundaries, impose rules, and give them the firm, unwavering guidance they really need.
Finally, someone has written a book to help beleaguered parents take back their homes and their children. With specific tactics, unforgettable one-liners, and dead-on-target advice, Fred Gosman shows you how to: quit your job as your child's servant institute discipline and... It starts with designer diapers. It extends to extravagant birthday parties, leads to boorish behavior and plummeting grades. What is the problem here...
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Letters from Dad: Lessons and Love
ISBN: 9780446520140 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Letters From Dad is a moving collection of the letters John Broome wrote to his son in an effort to remain a positive force in his development and help him enter the realm of maturity with principles, grace, and direction. Filled with fatherly concern, these letters offer sage advice on how to be not only an acceptable member of society but an exceptional one.
Letters From Dad is a moving collection of the letters John Broome wrote to his son in an effort to remain a positive force in his development and hel...
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Wimpy Parents: From Toddler to Teen-How Not to Raise a Brat
ISBN: 9780446673679 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Overworked, overextended, and guilty over the lack of time they spend with their children, parents today have a greater potential to fall into the "wimpy" parenting pattern. Parenting is the toughest job there is. Whether the children are toddlers or teenagers, parents have to get it right. Packed with advice that often produces instant results, Kenneth N. Condrell describes step-by-step techniques to help get through the toughest child-rearing challenges and explains just how to become a truly good parent with kids who will listen and behave. "Wimpy Parents" will detail:
-- How to teach... Overworked, overextended, and guilty over the lack of time they spend with their children, parents today have a greater potential to fall into the "wi...
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When Your Kids Push Your Buttons: And What You Can Do about It
ISBN: 9780446692854 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?"
Here is the first book that answers the questions "Why do my kids push my buttons?" and "How can I stop it from happening?"
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Drawing the Line: Ten Steps to Constructive Discipline--And Achieving a Great Relationship with Your Kids
ISBN: 9780446695008 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the bestselling tradition of "1-2-3 Magic" comes a unique and controversial approach that tells parents in order to eliminate conflict with their child, they must first create it. The authors introduce a ten-step program that shows parents how to create and engineer conflict to help their children break inappropriate habits and learn more productive ways of behaving.
In the bestselling tradition of "1-2-3 Magic" comes a unique and controversial approach that tells parents in order to eliminate conflict with their c...
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The Learning Mystique: A Critical Look at Learning Disabilities
ISBN: 9780449903513 / Angielski / Miękka / 353 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An essential book for any parent whose child has been labeled "learning disabled," for any teacher who has worked with these children, for anyone interested in the future of education and the future of our children With alarming, even shocking frequency, children of normal intelligence who do not read, remember, or concentrate at the same level as their peers are branded "learning disabled," the victims of some sort of neurological dysfunction. No one thought to examine the theory or the practice that has consigned nearly two million of these children to "special ed" classes,...
An essential book for any parent whose child has been labeled "learning disabled," for any teacher who has worked with these children, for anyone i...
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From One Child to Two: What to Expect, How to Cope, and How to Enjoy Your Growing Family
ISBN: 9780449906453 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most mothers and fathers are surprised at how different parenthood feels when the second child arrives. Even before the birth, a host of new questions arises: can you possibly love a second child as much as the first? Is it better to have them close in age or farther apart? What about sibling rivalry? In From One Child to Two, Judy Dunn gives parents all the information, emotional support, and reassurance they need to handle the stress -- and relish the joys -- of raising two children. An internationally recognized expert in the field of sibling relations, Dunn draws on her own...
Most mothers and fathers are surprised at how different parenthood feels when the second child arrives. Even before the birth, a host of new questions...
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Stress and Your Child
ISBN: 9780449909027 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GIVE YOUR CHILDREN BACK THEIR CHILDHOOD.
We like to think of childhood as a carefree, relaxed time of life, but the truth is, children today experience more stress than ever before: parents' fast-paced lifestyles, the frequent breakup of families, urban crime, schools in turmoil, and a host of other problems. However, according to Bettie B. Youngs, Ph.D., Ed.D, one of America's most admired experts on child psychology, children--by mastering skills of coping and self-awareness--can actually draw vitality from stress and channel it to promote health, fitness, and self-esteem. Stress and... GIVE YOUR CHILDREN BACK THEIR CHILDHOOD.
We like to think of childhood as a carefree, relaxed time of life, but the truth is, children today experi... |
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Children the Challenge
ISBN: 9780452266551 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Children: The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better behaved children. Based on a lifetime of experience with children--their problems, their delights, their challenges--Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs, one of America's foremost child psychiatrists presents an easy to follow program that teaches parents how to cope with the common childhood problems that occur from toddler through preteen years. This warm and reassuring reference helps parents to understand their children's actions better, giving...
Children: The Challenge gives the key to parents who seek to build trust and love in their families, and raise happier, healthier, and better b...
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Magic Trees of the Mind: How to Nurture Your Child's Intelligence, Creativity, and Healthy Emotions from Birth Through Adolescence
ISBN: 9780452278301 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical structure of a child's brain, vastly increasing the number of neuron branches--the "magic trees of the mind"--that help us to learn, think, and remember. At each stage of development, the brain's ability to gain new skills and process information is refined. As a leading researcher at the University of California at Berkeley, Marion Diamond has been a pioneer in this field of research. Now, Diamond and award-winning science writer...
Cutting edge scientific research has shown that exposure to the right kind of environment during the first years of life actually affects the physical...
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The Add Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
ISBN: 9780452286900 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year, 17 million new cases of attention deficit disorder, or ADD, are diagnosed in
children. But medications designed to treat the disorder don t work for many children and often leave families frustrated and searching for more options. In The ADD Answer, Dr. Frank Lawlis draws upon his thirty-five years of experience as a clinical and research psychologist to show parents how they can reclaim their central role in healing their children with comprehensive step-by-step advice on dealing with the problems of ADD.His approach blends the latest medical, nutritional, and... Every year, 17 million new cases of attention deficit disorder, or ADD, are diagnosed in
children. But medications designed to treat the disorder d... |
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