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Parenting Well in a Media Age: Keeping Our Kids Human
Gloria DeGaetano (Author), Diane Dreher PhD (Foreword)
This illuminating investigation takes a fresh look at the role of media in children’s lives. An overview of the formidable challenges parents face and creative ways to overcome them are included, as are strategies for turning a home environment from “high-tech” to “high-touch.” Moving beyond demonizing the media, this work, like none before it, articulates the difficulties of parenting in our depersonalized society. It offers hopeful alternatives for all parents wanting to protect children from, and teach children about, media’s impact.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
Adele Faber (Author), Elaine Mazlish (Author)
Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be more effective with your children–and more supportive of yourself. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down-to-earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful and more rewarding. Now, in this Twentieth Anniversary Edition, these award-winning experts share their latest insights and suggestions based upon feedback they’ve received over the years.
Their methods of communication-illustrated with delightful cartoons showing the skills in action-offer innovative ways to solve common problems. You’ll learn how to:
- Cope with your child’s negative feelings-frustration, disappointment, anger, etc.
- Express your anger without being hurtful
- Engage your child’s willing cooperation
- Set firm limits and still maintain goodwill
- Use alternatives to punishment
- Resolve family conflicts peacefully
Endangered Minds:
Why Children Don’t Think And What We Can Do About It
Jane M. Healy (Author)
Is today’s fast-paced media culture creating a toxic environment for our children’s brains?
In this landmark, bestselling assessment tracing the roots of America’s escalating crisis in education, Jane M. Healy, Ph.D., examines how television, video games, and other components of popular culture compromise our children’s ability to concentrate and to absorb and analyze information. Drawing on neuropsychological research and an analysis of current educational practices, Healy presents in clear, understandable language:
- How growing brains are physically shaped by experience
- Why television programs — even supposedly educational shows like Sesame Street — develop “habits of mind” that place children at a disadvantage in school
- Why increasing numbers of children are diagnosed with attention deficit disorder
- How parents and teachers can make a critical difference by making children good learners from the day they are born
Twins and Supertwins:
A Handbook for Early Childhood Professionals
Eve-Marie Arce EdD (Author)
Approximately one in every thirty children born today is a twin or supertwin—a child of a higher-order multiple birth, such as a triplet or quadruplet. With twins and supertwins an increasingly growing population in preschool classrooms, early childhood professionals have more questions and concerns regarding the best ways to care for and educate preschool-age children of multiple births. Twins and Supertwins addresses these issues and highlights the best program practices supported by recent research and study findings; includes information on physical, social, emotional, and language development; identifies unique needs of twins and supertwins; and offers guidance to create partnerships with families.
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