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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Building Boys offers tips and tools that parents can use to help boys move beyond persistent gender stereotypes to full humanity. Understanding, acknowledging, and respecting male development is key to facilitating boys' growth and making the world a safer place for humans of all genders."--
Confounded by rapidly changing gender norms, today's parents are attempting to raise kind, compassionate, emotionally sensitive boys in a society that simultaneously...
Author
Publisher
Oceano
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
With experience in child raising workshops and recent theoretical investigations, the authors offer strategies to communicate with children in a practical and congenial way. Taking the focus away from punishment and prizes, and with informational dedicated to autistic children, this guides a parent on how to educate with patience, kindness, and support that raises cooperative children.
Author
Series
Publisher
Plataforma Editorial
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Ira, frustración, miedo, tristeza, ansiedad, estrés..., las emociones forman parte de la vida familiar, afectando tanto a los niños como a los adultos. Es tarea de los padres intentar favorecer el bienestar de los hijos, y también el de ellos mismos, propiciando un entorno emocionalmente saludable donde puedan crecer felices y prepararse para la vida adulta. A partir de su larga experiencia como psicóloga y psicoterapeuta, la autora nos sumerge...
Author
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The author of the landmark work On Killing reveals how violent video games have ushered in a new era of mass homicide--and what we must do about it. Paducah, Kentucky, 1997: a 14-year-old boy shoots eight students in a prayer circle at his school. Littleton, Colorado, 1999: two high school seniors kill a teacher, twelve other students, and then themselves. Utoya, Norway, 2011: a political extremist shoots and kills sixty-nine participants in a youth...
Author
Publisher
Vergara
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Si evitamos que nuestros hijos se frustren, evitamos que crezcan y que maduren. De nosotros los adultos depende reaccionar sin miedo y sin culpa, con amor, pues frustrar es educar. Así como el dolor, las frustraciones son inevitables si se quiere vivir a plenitud. Lamentablemente, el cansancio y el estrés nos dejan a los padres desgastados emocionalmente y sin fuerzas para limitar las demandas de nuestros hijos. Es imprescindible, entonces, que...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Refresh
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a time when so many children and young adults seem to be struggling, parents are looking for help in bringing up mentally healthy kids who are equipped to thrive. Finally, evidence-based help is now available for overwhelmed parents who are trying their best but feel like they’re falling short. #1 New York Times bestselling author and neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen and child psychologist Dr. Charles Fay have teamed up to reveal what’s missing...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1969-1980]
Language
English
Description
Provides a comprehensive report on the mother-child bond and the emotional effects of and behavioral response to maternal deprivation.
A young child when removed from his mother and placed with strangers is distressed; subsequently he often becomes despairing and, later still, detached. There is evidence that reactions of this kind may underlie much psychopathology. In these volumes, John Bowlby, a pioneer in the field, considers the implications...
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This Very Short Introduction provides an up-to-date, authoritative, and accessible guide to modern child psychology, from birth to early adolescence. Beginning with infancy, Usha Goswami considers the process of attachment and 'bonding', showing how secure attachments enable the development of self-understanding. Exploring childhood learning, ranging from aspects of language and thinking to cognitive reasoning, Goswami looks at how babies and toddlers...
Author
Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
A woman with a magic way of curing children's bad habits tries her hand with a bully, a whisperer, and a slowpoke and formulates cures for a show-off and a crybaby.
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Child psychotherapist Dr. Margot Sunderland has more than 30 years' experience that she brings to this internationally-acclaimed guide, and she provides numerous case studies to relate the science to real life. From separations and time apart to forms of discipline to the latest thinking on screen time, this guide traces the direct effect of different parenting practices on your child's brain. Summaries at the end of every chapter provide key takeaways...
98) The orphans of Davenport: eugenics, the Great Depression, and the war over children's intelligence
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The fascinating--and eerily timely--tale of the forgotten Depression-era psychologists who overthrew long-accepted racist and classist views of childhood development. "Doomed from birth" was how psychologist Harold Skeels described two toddler girls at the Orphans' Home in Davenport, Iowa, in 1934. Following prevailing eugenic beliefs, Skeels and his colleague Marie Skodak assumed that the girls had inherited their parents' low intelligence and sent...
Author
Publisher
Perseus Pub
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
What do infants and children really need? In this impassioned dialogue our country's most distinguished pediatrician and most influential child psychiatrist define what every child must have in the first years of life. Cutting through the theories, platitudes, and controversies that abound in childcare advice, the authors, both famed advocates for children, lay out the seven irreducible needs of any child, in any society, They confront the hard questions:...
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