Discussing the meaning of childhood, friendship, justice and fairness, happiness, and death, Jana Mohr Lone considers how listening to children's ideas can expand our thinking about societal issues and deepen our respect for children's perspectives.
A complete overview of the rising epidemic of sexually aggressive behaviour among adolescents. A comprehensive approach to the assessment and diagnosis of the adolescent sexual offender, Sexual Aggression is the most current, integrated approach on this topic today.
An examination of the diagnosis of GID (gender-identity disorder of childhood). It considers how the stigma of illness influences a child's development and what homosexual childhood, freed from the constraints of conventionally acceptable gender expression, might look like.
How to Raise Children of Character in a World That Sorely Needs Them
A practical guide that encourages families to return to the basics of parenting in order to raise happy, respectful, and loving children. The rules and guidelines for raising families in our crisis-oriented, communication overloaded, high-pressure culture are changing by the minute. Yet, the fundamental principles of effective parenting remain. ......
A Home Visitor's Guide to Supporting Families at Risk
With the effective PAUSE framework (Perceive, Ask, Understand, Strategize, and Evaluate), home visitors will discover how to manage even their most difficult on-the-job challenges-and support and empower vulnerable families of children birth to 3.
The Archaeology of Childhood traces the history of childhood studies in archaeology and makes a case for the importance of studying children in the past. The book summarizes current research and offers overarching ideas to help archaeologists study children using the archaeological record.
The Archaeology of Childhood traces the history of childhood studies in archaeology and makes a case for the importance of studying children in the past. The book summarizes current research and offers overarching ideas to help archaeologists study children using the archaeological record.
Every major political and social dispute of the twentieth century has been fought on the backs of our children, from the economic reforms of the progressive era through the social readjustments of civil rights era and on to the current explosion of anxieties about everything from the national debt to the digital revolution. Far from noncombatants ......
A milestone of child psychology, The Child's Conception of the World explores the ways in which the reasoning powers of young children differ from those of adults. What conceptions of the world does the child naturally form at the different stages of its development? To what extent does the child distinguish the external world from an internal or ......
The Coloniality of Animal Monstrous Othering in Children's Books, Films, and Toys examines how the portrayal of animals as physically distorted, behaviorally depraved, and intellectually defective serves to justify their debasement, violation, and destruction in materials directed toward young consumers. The author argues that this animal ......
The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls' voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, ......
The Global History of Black Girlhood boldly claims that Black girls are so important we should know their histories. Yet, how do we find the stories and materials we need to hear Black girls' voices and understand their lives? Corinne T. Field and LaKisha Michelle Simmons edit a collection of writings that explores the many ways scholars, artists, ......
Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children
Details the possibilities and challenges of intergenerational activism and social movements Since 1976, the Peruvian movement of working children has fought to redefine age-based roles in society, including defending children's right to work. In The Kids Are in Charge, Jessica K. Taft gives us an inside look at this groundbreaking, ......
Activism and Power in Peru's Movement of Working Children
Taft gives an inside look at this groundbreaking, intergenerational social movement, showing that kids can--and should be--respected as equal partners in economic, social, and political life.ical life.
How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become
How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future success For decades, parents across America have asked their kids, "If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?" The answer is, "Duh, yes." Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they ......
Based on data from 2-1/2 years of observing 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, this book charts the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures and evaluates the effect
As nineteenth-century Britain became increasingly urbanized and industrialized, the number of children living in towns grew rapidly. At the same time, Horn considers the increasing divisions within urban society, not only between market towns and major manufacturing and trading centers, but within individual towns, as rich and poor became more ......
Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the
This book combines advice from certified autism travel professionals, parents, and advocates to restructure every aspect of vacations for those with autism/ASD or mood/distraction disorders, though the tips can be used to soothe any child's travel anxieties.
Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the
The award-winning travel bible for parents of children with autism spectrum disorder and/or mood and distraction disorders. "An essential read, not only for parents of autistic or otherwise neurodivergent children but for all families."--Library Journal, Starred Review Traveling with children is always challenging, but for parents of ......
Violence, Empowerment, and the Teenage Super/heroine
This book tracks the vigilante feminist teenage super/heroine in comics and YA literature, a character who acts as a vigilante on behalf of the protection of girls and women. It traces the trajectory of super/heroines who experience violent trauma and are subsequently empowered by use of violence to reclaim control over their lives and bodies.
