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Author : Laura Schlessinger
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Pages : 267 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (78 Download)
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Author : Laura Schlessinger
Publisher : Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Release Date : 2000-04-26
ISBN : 9780060191252
Pages : 298 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (252 Download)
Download Free Parenthood by Proxy PDF by Laura Schlessinger Full Book and published by Dr. Laura Schlessinger. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entreats parents to involve themselves in their children's hearts, minds, and souls, to cherish and protect them, and to commit to the essential task of teaching them right from wrong.
Author : Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Release Date : 2009-10-13
ISBN : 0061850195
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (85 Download)
Download Free Parenthood by Proxy PDF by Dr. Laura Schlessinger Full Book and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parenthood by Proxy is a passionate and provocative summation of the perils of parenting and a road map to safety for America's families. Never one to shy away from tough truths, Dr. Laura marshals compelling evidence for the widespread neglect of America's children and condemns the numerous rationalizations to excuse it. Parents, special interest groups, and professionals in education and psychology all contribute to a dangerous trend that places adult fulfillment above obligation to children. Parenthood by Proxy addresses the causes and effects of this national crisis, among them the high rate of divorce, serial marriages, single parenting, the premature sexualization of children, dual-career families, disdain for religion, the redefinition of immoral behavior as lifestyle choices, and societal intolerance for the concept of judgment. In Parenthood by Proxy, Dr. Laura exhorts parents to make their own children their top priority and, if necessary, to change their lives to do so. In her straight-shooting style, Dr. Laura entreats parents to involve themselves in their children's hearts, minds, and souls, to cherish and protect them, and to commit to the essential task of teaching them right from wrong. She acknowledges that parents no longer get much support from neighbors or public and private institutions, but she urges mothers and fathers to work even harder to counteract the prevailing culture of selfishness and irresponsibility. Parenthood by Proxy covers all aspects of parenting, from childbearing to discipline, from multiple families to being role models.
Author : Lara J. Descartes
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2010-04-02
ISBN : 1135850453
Pages : 207 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (85 Download)
Download Free Media and Middle Class Moms PDF by Lara J. Descartes Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by nationally recognized anthropologists Conrad Kottak and Lara Descartes, this ethnography of largely white, middle class families in a town in the midwest explores the role that the media play in influencing how those families cope with everyday work/family issues. The book insightfully reports that families struggle with, and make work/family decisions based largely on the images and ideas they receive from media sources, though they strongly deny being so influenced. An ideal book for teaching undergraduate family, media, and methods courses.
Author : David Yount, author, Making a Success of Marriage
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2010-01-16
ISBN : 1442200111
Pages : 216 pages
Rating : 4.0/5 (2 Download)
Download Free Making a Success of Marriage PDF by David Yount, author, Making a Success of Marriage Full Book and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experienced counselor and author David Yount offers road-tested, gimmick-free advice on topics ranging from finances and in-laws to intimacy and children to help couples build a marriage that lasts 'till death do us part.' Yount also includes chapters on divorce and marrying later in life, as well as a 100-question questionnaire designed to stimulate reflection and discussion on key issues. With over 50% of marriages today ending in divorce, this timely book offers helpful suggestions for couples, whether newly engaged or long-married, on reaching shared expectations and building a long-lasting and joyful marriage.
Author : Oliver James
Publisher : Random House
Release Date : 2010-06-03
ISBN : 1407080091
Pages : 384 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (8 Download)
Download Free How Not to F*** Them Up PDF by Oliver James Full Book and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mother, are you comfortable in your skin? Want to know how best to be a stay-at-home or working mum? Babies have very simple needs, yet many parents are overwhelmed with elaborate advice on how to meet them. In How Not to F*** Them Up, leading child psychologist Oliver James argues that your under-threes do not need training; it's getting your head straight as a parent that's important. Drawing on extensive interviews and the lastest clinical research, James identifies three basic types of mum: the Hugger, the Organiser and the Fleximum. Outlining the benefits and pitfalls of each, How Not to F*** Them Up shows you how to recognise which style suits you best and outlines simple strategies to reconcile personal ambitions with the needs of your family. Empowering and provocative, Oliver James will help you make the best choices for bringing up a happy, confident child.
Author : Tim Hawkes
Publisher : Penguin
Release Date : 2016-10-11
ISBN : 1101992255
Pages : 336 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (992 Download)
Download Free Ten Conversations You Must Have with Your Son PDF by Tim Hawkes Full Book and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally recognized expert on raising and educating boys, Dr. Tim Hawkes shows parents of tween and teen boys how to approach difficult but important conversations. Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son but often they put them off--or worse, don't have them at all--because they simply don't know where to start. In Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son, Dr. Hawkes provides parents with the essential information you need to negotiate your way through what can often be very difficult territory about the why, what, and how of ten key topics: love, identity, values, leadership, achievement, sex, money, health, living together, and resilience. Each chapter offers suggestions for how you can connect with your sons on these issues while sharing your own experiences and knowledge with your boys. A headmaster of 25 years, Dr. Hawkes is in a unique position to know what goes on inside the minds of teenage boys. He understands what they need to know to best prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities, challenges and demands that life will make on them. Ten Conversations You Must Have With Your Son is the one book anyone with a teenage son should read to help them prepare him for adulthood.
Author : Jane Waldfogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-03-15
ISBN : 0674268199
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (268 Download)
Download Free What Children Need PDF by Jane Waldfogel Full Book and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do children need to grow and develop? And how can their needs be met when parents work? Emphasizing the importance of parental choice, quality of care, and work opportunities, economist Jane Waldfogel guides readers through the maze of social science research evidence to offer comprehensive answers and a vision for change. Drawing on the evidence, Waldfogel proposes a bold new plan to better meet the needs of children in working families, from birth through adolescence, while respecting the core values of choice, quality, and work: ,Allow parents more flexibility to take time off work for family responsibilities; ,Break the link between employment and essential family benefits; ,Give mothers and fathers more options to stay home in the first year of life; ,Improve quality of care from infancy through the preschool years; ,Increase access to high-quality out-of-school programs for school-aged children and teenagers.
Author : Rick Santorum
Publisher : Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-04-08
ISBN : 1497636345
Pages : 475 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (636 Download)
Download Free It Takes a Family PDF by Rick Santorum Full Book and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Santorum made his name in the 2012 presidential race with his principled conservatism. To understand Santorum’s worldview and vision for America, there is no better source than his New York Times bestselling book, It Takes a Family. It Takes a Family is one of the most profound and comprehensive books of political thought ever written by a politician. Santorum offers a penetrating look at the social, political, and economic shifts that have hurt American families—and a principled, genuinely conservative plan for reversing this slide. Here Santorum explains his core beliefs, laying out a humane vision that he believes must inform public policy if it is to be effective and just. Politicians of both parties, he shows, fail to address the way Americans truly live their lives: in families, neighborhoods, churches, and communities. It Takes a Family is animated by an appreciation for the civic bonds that unite a community—an appreciation that lies at the heart of genuine conservatism.
Author : Maxine Eichner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-10-15
ISBN : 0195343212
Pages : 209 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (343 Download)
Download Free The Supportive State PDF by Maxine Eichner Full Book and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The family-state relationship in contemporary American theory and public policy -- Theorizing the supportive state -- The supportive state and caretaker-dependent ("vertical") relationships -- The supportive state and ("horizontal") relationships among adults -- The supportive state, family privacy, and children.
Author : Jonas E. Alexis
Publisher : Xulon Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN : 1600347606
Pages : 414 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (347 Download)
Download Free In the Name of Education PDF by Jonas E. Alexis Full Book and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexis convincingly examines the crisis in education from a Christian perspective. (Social Issues)
Author : Steve Salerno
Publisher : Crown
Release Date : 2005-06-21
ISBN : 0307238652
Pages : 288 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (238 Download)
Download Free Sham PDF by Steve Salerno Full Book and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-help: To millions of Americans it seems like a godsend. To many others it seems like a joke. But as investigative reporter Steve Salerno reveals in this groundbreaking book, it’s neither—in fact it’s much worse than a joke. Going deep inside the Self-Help and Actualization Movement (fittingly, the words form the acronym SHAM), Salerno offers the first serious exposé of this multibillion-dollar industry and the real damage it is doing—not just to its paying customers, but to all of American society. Based on the author’s extensive reporting—and the inside look at the industry he got while working at a leading “lifestyle” publisher—SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy. Americans spend upward of $8 billion every year on self-help programs and products. And those staggering financial costs are actually the least of our worries. SHAM demonstrates how the self-help movement’s core philosophies have infected virtually every aspect of American life—the home, the workplace, the schools, and more. And Salerno exposes the downside of being uplifted, showing how the “empowering” message that dominates self-help today proves just as damaging as the blame-shifting rhetoric of self-help’s “Recovery” movement. SHAM also reveals: • How self-help gurus conduct extensive market research to reach the same customers over and over—without ever helping them • The inside story on the most notorious gurus—from Dr. Phil to Dr. Laura, from Tony Robbins to John Gray • How your company might be wasting money on motivational speakers, “executive coaches,” and other quick fixes that often hurt quality, productivity, and morale • How the Recovery movement has eradicated notions of personal responsibility by labeling just about anything—from drug abuse to “sex addiction” to shoplifting—a dysfunction or disease • How Americans blindly accept that twelve-step programs offer the only hope of treating addiction, when in fact these programs can do more harm than good • How the self-help movement inspired the disastrous emphasis on self-esteem in our schools • How self-help rhetoric has pushed people away from proven medical treatments by persuading them that they can cure themselves through sheer application of will As Salerno shows, to describe self-help as a waste of time and money vastly understates its collateral damage. And with SHAM, the self-help industry has finally been called to account for the damage it has done. Also available as an eBook
Author : Toni Schindler Zimmerman
Publisher : Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
ISBN : 113641715X
Pages : 144 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (417 Download)
Download Free Integrating Gender and Culture in Parenting PDF by Toni Schindler Zimmerman Full Book and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show parents how to help their children break free of the artificial limitations placed upon them by society’s gender and cultural expectations! This book presents both theoretical and practical ideas for integrating gender and culture into parenting. Unlike other books on the subject, this one examines interventions and activities, and suggests discussion topics that provide children with the skills to become critical consumers and thinkers. You’ll learn to help children discover and celebrate who they are, while infusing the message that they should notice and challenge exaggerated stereotypes of gender and ethnicity. From the editor: “If therapists can coach parents in helping to inoculate their children, beginning at early ages, against the negative effects of gender socialization, perhaps the work of developing equal relationships in their friendships and intimate relationships will be less taxing as they grow and mature. Additionally, as children are taught to challenge rigid gender and ethnicity messages, perhaps they will feel a greater sense of flexibility as they dream about who they want to become and how they want to live their lives.” This essential book will teach you to help children defeat the harmful media messages they’re bombarded by. Integrating Gender and Culture in Parenting: presents 20 simple ideas and 5 group activities to teach children about social justice in our everyday lives explores parental socialization practices and the values transmitted to school-aged and young adult offspring, focusing on the way parents’ teaching styles integrate race and gender investigates the parenting practices of middle-class, dual-earner couples who feel that they are successfully balancing family and work—with a look at the specific strategies these couples use to achieve an appropriate balance shows what family therapists should know about sexuality education, and highlights the specific roles that feminist family therapists can play with parents, children, and adolescents to help children be more sexually responsible and less likely to put themselves in sexually risky situations examines the gender messages found in 63 articles from the top three selling parenting magazines in the United States In addition, you’ll find two revealing and insightful chapters in which interviewer Lori Lund discusses the cultural scripting that American boys and girls are subjected to, with: Jackson Katz—one of America’s leading anti-sexist male activists and the creator/director of the United States Marine Corps Gender Violence Prevention Program, and Mary Pipher—respected sociologist, educator, and bestselling author of Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls and Hunger Pains
Author : S. VENKATESAN
Publisher : Notion Press
Release Date : 2019-12-09
ISBN : 1647339294
Pages : 110 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (339 Download)
Download Free PARENTING PDF by S. VENKATESAN Full Book and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This caselets-based narrative does not seek to laugh or cry at the predicament of parents or their children. It is also not intended to pass judgments on them. In seeking to understand them and their travails and troubles, care and concerns, joys and sorrows, they become the cornerstone for this book. Are you an anxious, over-concerned parent? Are you overprotective? Are you the slack, indifferent type? Or are you the suspicious or strict parent? It could be that you want to be the best friend to your child. Or you might be a weekend parent or an online virtual parent for your child. Whatever may be the case, this book can provide a thought-provoking insight. Whether you are a student and researcher of human behavior, a parent or caregiver, a teacher or child-rights activist, it is an eye-opener for everyone. The book is a must-read accompaniment to seminars, workshops, brain-storming sessions, focus-group discussions and other technical group activities for parents or children. It is a handbook for all who have once been a child and is now a parent, or wants to be a parent sooner or later!
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Release Date : 2000-11
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Pages : 134 pages
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Download Free Working Mother PDF by Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
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Release Date : 2000-11
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Pages : 134 pages
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Download Free Working Mother PDF by Full Book and published by . This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The magazine that helps career moms balance their personal and professional lives.
Author : Bill O'Reilly
Publisher : Crown
Release Date : 2002-02-26
ISBN : 0767911016
Pages : 208 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (911 Download)
Download Free The No Spin Zone PDF by Bill O'Reilly Full Book and published by Crown. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of his runaway New York Times bestseller, The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly delivers another strong dose of no-holds-barred advice and the unvarnished truth for America. Bill O’Reilly is even madder today than when he wrote his last book The O’Reilly Factor–and his fans love him even more. He’s mad because things have gone from bad to worse, in politics, in Hollywood, in every social stratum of the nation. True to its title, The No-Spin Zone cuts through all the rhetoric that some of O’Reilly’s most infamous guests have spewed to expose what’s really on their minds, while sharing plenty of his own emphatic counterpoints along the way. Shining a searing spotlight on public figures from President George W. Bush and Senator Hillary Clinton to the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and his former CBS News colleague Dan Rather, The No-Spin Zone is laced with the kind of straight-shooting commentary that has made O’Reilly the voice of middle America’s disenfranchised. Examining sex and violence in the media and the tarnished legacy of the Clintons with the same feistiness as the death penalty (which he opposes) and timid national news organizations that roll over for the powerful, Bill O’Reilly delivers not only his opinions, but the documented attitudes of the country’s movers and shakers as well. It demonstrates just why O’Reilly has become the most successful, the most controversial, the most beloved (by some), and the most disliked (by others) figure in television news today_and a culture hero to tens of millions of everyday Americans. And that’s fact, not spin.
