Download or read book Parents as Partners Not Pesters written by Kristin Austin and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parental involvement in the life of a college student has often been stereotyped as negative, overbearing, and unnecessary. These stereotypes have depicted parents as helicopters, and more recently as stealth fighters. Consequently, higher education has often maintained an adversarial relationship when interacting with parents of college students. Despite this tension, research indicates that parents provide a unique perspective and resourcefulness that can aid in student success, when engaged and managed appropriately. This study explored one way in which an institution partnered with parents of new students for the mutual goal of student success using a closed Facebook group. Guided by Hoover-Dempsey & Sandler's Parental Involvement Framework (1995), this qualitative investigation implemented document analysis and semi-structured one-on-one interviews to examine the lived experiences of individuals who participated in a Facebook group for parents of new, first-year students attending a single university. The data revealed that when parents were engaged by the institution, several impactful outcomes occurred: students experienced common first-year challenges; participants supported each other using their own personal experiences; the group contributed to parents' understanding of college transition and campus resources; and members appreciated the convenience and accessibility of a Facebook-based group. Each of these outcomes were found to be advantageous toward the goal of new student retention facilitated by parental support. Finally, this study provided a counter narrative that highlighted the strengths and opportunities of parental involvement when appropriately managed and engaged. The findings of this study also revealed that additional research is needed to enhance and inform higher education's understanding of parental involvement in the life of modern-day college students, along with the tools that enhance and facilitate engagement.
Download or read book Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2017-04-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays extended from The New York Times' most-read article of 2016. Anyone we might marry could, of course, be a little bit wrong for us. We don’t expect bliss every day. The fault isn’t entirely our own; it has to do with the devilish truth that anyone we’re liable to meet is going to be rather wrong, in some fascinating way or another, because this is simply what all humans happen to be – including, sadly, ourselves. This collection of essays proposes that we don’t need perfection to be happy. So long as we enter our relationships in the right spirit, we have every chance of coping well enough with, and even delighting in, the inevitable and distinctive wrongness that lies in ourselves and our beloveds.
Download or read book 10 Things Every Parent Needs to Know written by Justin Coulson and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From popular author and resident parenting expert on Channel 9's Parental Guidance Dr Justin Coulson, this book is a moving, inspiring and loving call to action for all parents. Parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson shares the ten things every parent needs to know to raise their children in positive ways. They are also ways to make parenting easier for you - so you don't have to keep 'making it up as you go along'. Drawing on positive psychology, the book gives simple and effective strategies for the main issues parents of 2-12 year olds confront in everyday family life. Justin shares his secrets of effective attention, communication and understanding; how to discipline effectively and set limits; and how to manage hot-button issues such as sibling conflict, chores, school and screens - yet still have fun as a family. Praise for Dr Justin Coulson 'Justin is a genius! His honest, compassionate and sensible advice is music to this mum's ears. I want him to adopt our family!' - Jessica Rowe, co-host, Studio 10 'Dr Justin Coulson is who I turn to when I'm feeling overwhelmed with parenting my three young (and frequently boisterous) kids. His calm, logical advice never fails to help me be a better parent.' - Bec Sparrow, author of Find Your Tribe 'If your aim is to be the best parent you possibly can, this is your go-to book.' - Madonna King, author of Being 14 'A wonderfully practical book that's bulging with heart, soul and wisdom. It's a book I'll definitely be recommending to my children, who are now parents themselves.' - Michael Grose, parenting expert and founder of Parenting Ideas
Download or read book Parents as Partners in Education written by Eugenia Hepworth Berger and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2004 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This text uniquely provides comprehensive coverage of the history of parenting and parent/school collaboration, current issues and immigration trends affecting American schools and communities, diverse family structures, and many techniques that teaching professionals can use to engage family members of all children more completely as partners in education. Chapters on working with families of children with special needs and on child abuse are remarkable aspects of this text."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Ask An Expert Answers Every Parent Needs to Know written by Claire Halsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find the answers to all your questions on raising children from 0-16 with expert tips and problem-solving strategies. When it comes to understanding children's behaviour and helping them grow into happy and confident individuals well-prepared for adult life, it pays to follow the advice and wisdom of Tanya Byron, expert professionals - and parents who know what it's like to raise children. Find out how to tame a toddler tantrum, the right amount of TV time for kids and how to encourage your child's independence. Packed with hundreds of real-life questions, answered with up-to-date information and knowledge, this expert guide covers everything you need to know, from babies to teenagers. It's like having your own parenting expert on call throughout your child's life. Find the answers to all your questions on raising children from 0-16 with expert tips and problem-solving strategies.When it comes to understanding children's behaviour and helping them grow into happy and confident individuals well-prepared for adult life, it pays to follow the advice and wisdom of Tanya Byron, expert professionals - and parents who know what it's like to raise children.
Download or read book Incredible Parent written by Brandon Miller and published by Harvest House Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-08 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong Moms and Super Dads Wanted If you’re reading this, chances are you are already a good parent. How can you take the next step from good to incredible? By shifting your focus to what you do well as a parent instead of dwelling on your weaknesses. Inside you’ll discover how to get a special online access code to the groundbreaking IncredibleParent strengths assessment, a powerful tool to help you identify your core strengths as a parent. Using the practical advice and proven strategies in the book, you can grow and leverage those areas of strength to bring joy and success to your daily parenting interactions. This innovative strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware, and energized as a parent, allowing you the freedom to do what you do well and bring out the best in your kids.
Download or read book Questions Couples Ask Behind Closed Doors written by James Osterhaus and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands-on, practical tools and communication strategies that can heal and transform your marriage into a rich and rewarding relationship. The “What is ‘healthy’?” question is just one of many questions couples have asked me over and over again in my counseling practice. The typical couples I’ve counseled have again and again asked, “Why do we get into so much conflict over the same issues?” “How can we learn to trust each other?” “Who leads?” “What do we do with in-laws?” and a whole host of other questions. Noted marriage therapist and executive coach Jim Osterhaus takes the 18 top questions he’s been asked the most and answers them for you in this book. Each chapter stands on its own as couples search for answers to the challenges they face. After many of the chapters, you will find very helpful, practical tips to help you understand your relationship better, and begin the process of making it more fulfilling. “At last! Jim Osterhaus has given us a ‘greatest hits’ of how to have a healthy marriage.” —Gary J. Oliver, PhD
Download or read book Aspiring to the Good Life in Seoul written by Carolin Landgraf and published by Universitätsverlag Göttingen. This book was released on 2021 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the values and practices of young, middle-class South Koreans and what it means for them to live a good life. Based on 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork, it attends to the pathways and life trajectories of young adults living, studying and working in Seoul, the country’s economic, political, cultural and educational centre. Due to changing economic conditions, it appears to be increasingly difficult for young people today to reproduce middle-class status. In public discourse, these difficulties are expressed in the terms ‘Spec’ or ‘Give-up Generation’. At the same time, young people are starting to question middle-class lifestyles and values and turn to practices which emphasise different standards. The author illustrates how young adults negotiate middle-class ideals by contextualising the values around four key themes – education, marriage, consumption, and work. In doing so, she explores her interlocutors’ thoughts and reflections about middle-class values through a theoretical and methodological framework centred on ordinary ethics and the everyday use of money. This ethnography sheds light on the complex and heterogenous ways young people in South Korea conceptualise and realise the good in their lives, and it focuses attention on the explicitness of ethics and the relationship between money and values in these young Seoulites’ everyday lives and social relations.
Download or read book I Only Say This Because I Love You written by Deborah Tannen and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? In this illuminating book, Deborah Tannen, the linguist and and bestselling author of You Just Don't Understand and many other books, reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance and belonging, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism and judgment? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages —unstated but powerful meanings that come from the history of our relationships and the way things are said. Presenting real conversations from people's lives, Tannen reveals what is actually going on in family talk, including how family conversations must balance the longing for connection with the desire for control, as we struggle to be close without giving up our freedom. This eye-opening book explains why grown women so often feel criticized by their mothers; and why mothers feel they can't open their mouths around their grown daughters; why growing up male or female, or as an older or younger sibling, results in different experiences of family that persist throughout our lives; and much, much more. By helping us to understand and redefine family talk, Tannen provides the tools to improve relationships with family members of every age.
Download or read book How Not to be A Perfect Family written by Libby Purves and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect Families: * Tick off museums in the guidebook* Tidy everything away neatly* Work hard and play fair* Show respect for one anotherReal Families: * Start fights in the Louvre * Keep all their worldly goods on the stairs and in the kitchen * Do their homework on the school bus and cheat at Monopoly* Tie the shoelaces of sleeping uncles together after Christmas dinnerWith her customary humour and reliably robust commonsense, Libby Purves celebrates family life in all its aspects. Her accounts of sibling rivalry and the pitfalls of family Christmas will provoke rueful laughter and strike chords of recognition; her practical tips on dealing with everything from marriage maintenance to money matters, testing times to trips and treats, provide essential help for the hard-pressed parent. Best of all is her reassuring reminder that no one else has a perfect family either!
Download or read book Attachment Parenting Tips Raising Toddlers To Teens written by Judy L Arnall and published by Professional Parenting. This book was released on 2018-04-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No parenting theory. No opinions. No judgement... Just Solutions! Attachment Parenting Tips is an easy-to-use reference book of ideas to solve every common parenting problem that arises while raising children from 0 - 13 years of age and beyond. Each tip is respectful, gentle, and non-punitive. Written by a certified parent educator and mother of five grown attachment-parented children, this book is bursting with over 3,000 practical tips tested by real parents. Every topic in parenting is covered, from feeding and sleep, to bullying and homework, and the strategies can be put to use immediately. "A much needed reference book with no theory - just plenty of neuro-biologically informed, kind and effective strategies for the everyday challenges parents face." Lysa Parker, MS, Cofounder, Attachment Parenting International and coauthor of Attached at the Heart. Get helpful strategies on... The Baby years: sleeping, breastfeeding, and crying. The Toddler years: tantrums, the world of No!, toilet training, picky-eating, hitting and sleep challenges. The Preschool years: power struggles, not listening, lying, angry meltdowns, and sibling jealousy. The School-aged years: homework, friends, peers, stealing, school, attitude, chores, discipline, allowances, relationships and screen-time. The Teen years: the one tool that works for all teen issues. General AP Tips: More tools for babies to teens. "This reference book should be on every parent's phone or nightstand. It is a treasure chest of respectful tips and practical ideas to use for almost every common parenting challenge." Elizabeth Pantley, Author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution and The No-Cry Solution series Bonus! Every challenge includes a brain and child development tip for that age and issue!
Download or read book Family Law written by Roiya Hodgson and published by Legal Practice Course Manuals. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family Law takes a practical approach to family law and procedure, supporting students with a range of learning features such as self-test questions, chapter summaries, and diagrams. Case studies and examples are included throughout to show the practical applications of the law and are accompanied by worked sample documents.
Download or read book What Are Children For written by Anastasia Berg and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern argument, grounded in philosophy and cultural criticism, about childbearing ambivalence and how to overcome it Becoming a parent, once the expected outcome of adulthood, is increasingly viewed as a potential threat to the most basic goals and aspirations of modern life. We seek self-fulfillment; we want to liberate women to find meaning and self-worth outside the home; and we wish to protect the planet from the ravages of climate change. Weighing the pros and cons of having children, Millennials and Zoomers are finding it increasingly difficult to judge in its favor. With lucid argument and passionate prose, Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman offer the guidance necessary to move beyond uncertainty. The decision whether or not to have children, they argue, is not just a women’s issue but a basic human one. And at a time when climate change worries threaten the very legitimacy of human reproduction, Berg and Wiseman conclude that neither our personal nor collective failures ought to prevent us from embracing the fundamental goodness of human life—not only in the present but, in choosing to have children, in the future.
Download or read book Parenting written by George W. Holden and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Holden and Amanda Harrist embrace the idea that parenting is a dynamic process: children affect parents just as much as parents affect children. A multi-level, ecological approach to parenting and childrearing allows a full range of parenting styles, covering topics from co-parenting, evolutionary views, human behavioral genetics, to religious influences, and addressing challenges to be encountered across parenting courses, such as family violence, behavior problems, and the role of pathology in the family. The completely updated Parenting: A Dynamic Process, Fourth Edition presents research in a way that is accessible and interesting but also accurate, current, and intellectually rich. Although written from a psychological perspective, views and applications from other disciplines - including sociology, criminology, anthropology, and pediatrics - are also discussed where appropriate. The text discusses contemporary issues, such as fertility problems, daycare, marital conflict, whether or not to use physical punishment, divorce, remarriage and step-parents, LBGTQ parents, the effects of poverty, risks and benefits of media use among children, and family violence. Additionally, Holden and Harrist include selected studies from developing and non-Western countries as well as recent statistics on such topics as US & world birthrate, birth problems, adolescent pregnancy, child injury, divorce and remarriage, child maltreatment, and certain social policy issues.
Download or read book Historical Archaeology of Childhood and Parenting written by April Kamp-Whittaker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chipewyan marriage written by Henry S. Sharp and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the kinship terms used by the Mission Chipewyan and the social ramifications that result from their basis on relative age and genealogical position, the confusion surrounding kindred and hunting unit functions, and the implications of marriage. Published in English.
Download or read book Play and Learning written by Brian Sutton-Smith and published by Halsted Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
