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Henry Holt
Pub. Date
1995
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Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described the development of the child from birth onwards and...
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Publisher
Tarcher
Pub. Date
2015.
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"Cure your kids of the entitlement epidemic so they develop happier, more productive attitudes that will carry them into a successful adulthood. Whenever Amy McCready mentions the "entitlement epidemic" to a group of parents, she is inevitably met with eye rolls, nodding heads, and loaded comments about affected children. It seems everywhere one looks there are preschoolers who only behave in the grocery store for a treat, narcissistic teenagers...
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J. Wiley & Sons Canada
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Love your kids but not always their behavior? Alyson's democratic parenting approach is based on psychotherapeutic principles, but it isn't parenting theory-- it's parenting action. Here are quick-and-dirty solutions when you need them.
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Pub. Date
2013
Description
As infants we are rife with potential. For a short time, we have before us a seemingly infinite number of developmental paths. Soon, however, we become limited to certain paths as we grow into unique products of our genetics and experience. But what factors account for the variation--in skills, personalities, values--that results? How do experiences shape what we bring into the world? In The Human Spark, pioneering psychologist Jerome Kagan offers...
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Fact sheet volume 14-09
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University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Pub. Date
[2014]
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Temperamentally difficult children can confuse and upset even experienced parents and teachers. They often act defiant, stubborn, loud, aggressive, or hyperactive. They can also be clingy, shy, whiny, picky, and impossible at bedtime, mealtimes, and in public places. This landmark book has been completely revised to include the latest information on ADHD, medications, and a reassuring approach.
In this parenting classic, Dr. Stanley Turecki, one...
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Toromítico
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Imagina que los niños vinieran con un pan bajo el brazo... no, mejor aún... imagina que los niños vinieran con un manual de instrucciones... no, aún mejor: imagina que tú como padre o madre tuvieras la oportunidad de dar a tu hijo lo que necesita y sentir que estás dando lo mejor de ti. Comienza por creer en ti, le diste luz y ahora tienes la oportunidad de dejar una huella que perdure en su camino mientras construye su vida. Este libro ahonda...
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Award-winning science journalists Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman demonstrate that many of modern society's strategies for nurturing children are in fact backfiring--because key twists in the science of child development have been overlooked. The authors discuss the inverse power of praise, why insufficient sleep adversely affects kids' capacity to learn, why white parents don't talk about race, why kids lie, why evaluation methods for "giftedness"...
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