Taking Back Childhood

Author : Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101213922
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Back Childhood written by Nancy Carlsson-Paige and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early childhood development expert shows how to craft a nurturing childhood for your sons and daughters, while minimizing negative societal influences. Based on early-childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige’s thirty years of researching young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, kids today—and restore childhood to the best of what it can be. As Carlsson-Paige explains, there are three attributes critical to kids’ healthy development: time and space for creative play, a feeling of safety in today’s often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other children—attributes that we, as a society, are failing to protect and nurture. From advising parents on which toys foster creativity (and which stifle it) to guiding them in how to use “power-sharing” techniques to resolve conflicts and generate empathy, Carlsson-Paige offers hands-on steps parents can take to create a safe, open, and imaginative environment in which kids can relish childhood and flourish as human beings. “Dr. Carlsson-Paige explains the many ways our culture and media are threatening our children’s healthy development. She gives adults concrete strategies for fighting back. Today’s parents need this book.”—Marian Wright Edelman, Children’s Defense Fund

Author : Nancy Carlsson-Paige
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322759159
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Back Childhood written by Nancy Carlsson-Paige and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert N. Munsch
Publisher : Firefly Books
ISBN 13 : 9780920668375
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love You Forever written by Robert N. Munsch and published by Firefly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young woman holds her newborn son And looks at him lovingly. Softly she sings to him: "I'll love you forever I'll like you for always As long as I'm living My baby you'll be." So begins the story that has touched the hearts of millions worldwide. Since publication in l986, Love You Forever has sold more than 15 million copies in paperback and the regular hardcover edition (as well as hundreds of thousands of copies in Spanish and French). Firefly Books is proud to offer this sentimental favorite in a variety of editions and sizes: We offer a trade paper and laminated hardcover edition in a 8" x 8" size. In gift editions we carry: a slipcased edition (8 1/2" x 8 1/4"), with a laminated box and a cloth binding on the book and a 10" x 10" laminated hardcover with jacket. And a Big Book Edition, 16" x 16" with a trade paper binding.

Author : Montonio Weatherall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998864105
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking My Life Back written by Montonio Weatherall and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you feel like a part of your life was stolen by a negative event? Do you feel imprisoned by the pain of your past? Have you struggled with forgiveness? Monty Weatherall knows firsthand how a series of horrific events can leave a person feeling depressed, hopeless, and even at times suicidal. Having experienced the trauma of childhood sexual abuse, feeling trapped by all of its repercussions, Monty made the decision to take his life back. In this book, he will show you each step he took to finally find freedom. You will learn how to manifest mental and emotional healing, how to deal with the demons that keep you in a negative thought pattern, how to forgive those who wounded you, and much more. Get ready to be healed and to be freed. It's time to take your life back.*********MONTY WEATHERALL is a pastor who specializes in helping people recover from emotional trauma. He wrote Taking My Life Back to share his own experience of healing. Monty lives in Fairview Heights, Illinois and enjoys life with his wife, Kimberly, and daughter, Morgan.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9781663608192
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Enrico Gnaulati, PhD
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807073350
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to Normal written by Enrico Gnaulati, PhD and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran clinical psychologist exposes why doctors, teachers, and parents incorrectly diagnose healthy American children with serious psychiatric conditions. In recent years there has been an alarming rise in the number of American children and youth assigned a mental health diagnosis. Current data from the Centers for Disease Control reveal a 41 percent increase in rates of ADHD diagnoses over the past decade and a forty-fold spike in bipolar disorder diagnoses. Similarly, diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder, once considered, has increased by 78 percent since 2002. Dr. Enrico Gnaulati, a clinical psychologist specializing in childhood and adolescent therapy and assessment, has witnessed firsthand the push to diagnose these disorders in youngsters. Drawing both on his own clinical experience and on cutting-edge research, with Back to Normal he has written the definitive account of why our kids are being dramatically overdiagnosed—and how parents and professionals can distinguish between true psychiatric disorders and normal childhood reactions to stressful life situations. Gnaulati begins with the complex web of factors that have led to our current crisis. These include questionable education and training practices that cloud mental health professionals’ ability to distinguish normal from abnormal behavior in children, monetary incentives favoring prescriptions, check-list diagnosing, and high-stakes testing in schools. We’ve also developed an increasingly casual attitude about labeling kids and putting them on psychiatric drugs. So how do we differentiate between a child with, say, Asperger’s syndrome and a child who is simply introverted, brainy, and single-minded? As Gnaulati notes, many of the symptoms associated with these disorders are similar to everyday childhood behaviors. In the second half of the book Gnaulati tells detailed stories of wrongly diagnosed kids, providing parents and others with information about the developmental, temperamental, and environmentally driven symptoms that to a casual or untrained eye can mimic a psychiatric disorder. These stories also reveal how nonmedical interventions, whether in the therapist’s office or through changes made at home, can help children. Back to Normal reminds us of the normalcy of children’s seemingly abnormal behavior. It will give parents of struggling children hope, perspective, and direction. And it will make everyone who deals with children question the changes in our society that have contributed to the astonishing increase in childhood psychiatric diagnoses.

Author : Francisco Jiménez
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547632304
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Hold written by Francisco Jiménez and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's education at Columbia University, where he struggled with cultural differences and a changing sense of identity.

Author : Laura Briggs
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520385772
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking Children written by Laura Briggs and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You have to take the children away."—Donald Trump Taking Children argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends. Black children, Native children, Latinx children, and the children of the poor have all been seized from their kin and caregivers. As Laura Briggs's sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, in the US's anti-Communist coups in Central America, and in the moral panic about "crack babies." In chilling detail we see how Central Americans were made into a population that could be stripped of their children and how every US administration beginning with Reagan has put children of immigrants and refugees in detention camps. Yet these tactics of terror have encountered opposition from every generation, and Briggs challenges us to stand and resist in this powerful corrective to American history.

Author : John J. Lemoncelli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing from Childhood Abuse written by John J. Lemoncelli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-04-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written directly to individuals who have experienced childhood trauma, this book provides essential information that allows victims to begin recovering from their immense pain and suffering, and empowers them to examine their specific issues in order to become a true survivor. The American Medical Association currently estimates at least one in every five adults suffered abuse as a child. While childhood abuse or trauma is certainly not a new issue, it has reached epidemic proportion. Yet most clinicians have not been sufficiently trained to appreciate or understand the devastating long-term impact of abuse on the total person. John J. Lemoncelli, EdD, authored this book to enable those who suffer in silence to understand what happened, take control, and begin and maintain a program of recovery. It helps those abused in childhood to grasp how their experience impacted their development and the extent to which it negatively affects their present lives; encourages them to let go of the belief that they are damaged, dirty, or at fault; and provides an effective strategy for externalizing the source of their anguish, rather than blaming themselves. The author outlines several stages and common issues that may need to be addressed, but as no "one size fits all" treatment is possible, he provides strategies that empower victims to identify the specific sources of their pain.

Author : Helene Guldberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135226253
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Childhood written by Helene Guldberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children are cooped up, passive, apathetic and corrupted by commerce... or so we are told. Reclaiming Childhood confronts the dangerous myths spun about modern childhood. Yes, children today are losing out on many experiences past generations took for granted, but their lives have improved in so many other ways. This book exposes the stark consequences on child development of both our low expectations of fellow human beings and our safety-obsessed culture. Rather than pointing the finger at soft ‘junk’ targets and labelling children as fragile and easily damaged, Helene Guldberg argues that we need to identify what the real problems are – and how much they matter. We need to allow children to grow and flourish, to balance sensible guidance with youthful independence. That means letting children play, experiment and mess around without adults hovering over them. It means giving children the opportunity to develop the resilience that characterises a sane and successful adulthood. Guldberg suggests ways we can work to improve children’s experiences, as well as those of parents, teachers and ‘strangers’ simply by taking a step back from panic and doom-mongering.