Download or read book MySpace for Moms and Dads written by Connie Neal and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moms and dads—here it is at last! A quick, sweeping overview of MySpace: what it is, how it works, and why it is so important to your teen. You’ll find out how to address important issues with your teen in a way that strengthens your relationship and resolves conflicts.Whether you’re computer illiterate or a seasoned web surfer, MySpace for Moms and Dads will help you understand the social networking revolution and equip you to make smart, confident decisions about your son’s or daughter’s use of MySpace and sites like it.Learn how to minimize the risks of MySpace and bring out its benefits and positive opportunities. You can not only ensure that your teen uses MySpace safely, but also use MySpace yourself to gain a window into your teen’s world. Find out how to tailor your teen’s use of MySpace to his or her present maturity level—and deepen your appreciation of the unique individual your son or daughter is in the bargain.Includes complete glossary, discussion starters, fun quizzes, negotiation helps for you and your teen, and resources with complete contact information including non-web and web addresses.
Download or read book Online Social Networking written by Carla Mooney and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pew Research Center shows a steady rise in online social networking since 2005 with most people using Facebook at 68 percent, Instagram at 28 percent, Pinterest at 26 percent, and LinkedIn at 25 percent. Nearly 1.23 billion people are active Facebook users and 80 percent of those Facebook users check their accounts daily. This insightful edition deconstructs issues surrounding online social networking. Its visually appealing presentation and compelling examples provide context. Readers will be inspired to think critically about the way online social media affects their peers and the world around them.
Download or read book Social Networking written by Jennifer Lombardo and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social networking has become an integral part of our lives in this modern society. Nearly every young adult has one or more types of social accounts, making it imperative to inform them about the best ways to protect themselves and their private information. Discussions about online predators and the rights students have on the Internet are highlighted by fact boxes, and a list of dialogue questions encourages conversations among young adults about how to be proactive in protecting themselves online.
Download or read book A Parents Guide to the Middle School Years written by Joe Bruzzese and published by Celestial Arts. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OMG PAW G2G. Oh my god, parents are watching, got to go. Today’s text-messaging middle schoolers may seem like a different species from how parents remember themselves as sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. Children are often forced to confront serious issues like drugs, violence, sexuality, and technology at an age that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. So it’s natural for parents to worry about these crucial years. Still, educator Joe Bruzzese believes that this time can be full of positive transformation as your child gains independence and your parental role shifts from omnipresent manager to supportive coach. Timely topics include cyberbullying, depression, and choosing realistic and rewarding extracurricular activities. The middle school years can and should be a time of exciting change and opportunity; A Parents’ Guide to the Middle School Years presents what you need to know to survive and thrive as a family.
Download or read book The Porning of America written by Carmine Sarracino and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the golden age of comic books in the 1940s and 1950s to the adult film industry's golden decade of the 1970s and up to today, the authors trace porn's transformation--from lurking in the dark alleys of American life to becoming an unapologetic multibillion-dollar industry.
Download or read book Tough Questions about God Faith and Life written by Charles Colson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is God real? Where does evil come from? Can we really believe the Bible? Does modern science disprove Christianity? Is there such a thing as absolute truth? These questions and much more are things every teenager will face in high school and college. How will they answer these tough questions for themselves? Premier thinker Chuck Colson gives answers to the toughest questions teens have about God, faith, science, and life.
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Foggiest Idea written by Robin Dutton-Cookston and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's it like to go from sitting two rows behind George W. Bush in church to explaining ass-less chaps to a two-year-old while wandering through the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco? Robin Dutton-Cookston grew up in a Texas town where the only chaps were found at the annual rodeo, yet she found herself peeing on the pregnancy stick while still unpacking the boxes in her hipster San Francisco apartment. Life in the mama-lane quickly straddled the great divide between red and blue states, and Robin learned to blend new age street smarts and deep-fried southern hospitality when raising her daughter. Take a trip to San Francisco Mamaland and sneak a peek into an odyssey of bumbling motherhood. It all takes place in a city where what passes as ordinary-same-sex mommies and daddies, creative facial piercings, rabid political rallies, and professional families who can't afford to buy a house-evokes gasps of shock and awe from folks back in Texas. On the way Robin covers universal parenting themes common to many mamas and daddies: breastfeeding chaos, naptime battles, life transitions, the quest for a sense of home, and the need teach her California child the subtle difference between east and west Texas barbeque sauce.
Download or read book Online Social Networking written by Sylvia Engdahl and published by Greenhaven Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays debate the issue of online social networking on sites such as MySpace and Facebook, discussing how it is changing society, who uses the sites, and their use by teens and children both at home and in schools and libraries.
Download or read book You Are The Father written by Michelle Harbin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-13 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is based on a true story, most of the names were changed to protect the innocent. This dynamic intriguing novel will capture the minds of readers from Detroit to the entire east coast of America. From the past to the present, a young teenager named Chanel Harrington tries to find her worth as she struggles to make a better life for herself and her younger brother. They are both caught up in a world of drugs, death, and dealers. Chanel escapes the hardcore streets of Detroit and lands in and Washington, DC better known as "Dodge City" Her life takes a drastic change as she learns the Jamaican way of living. Chanel falls in love with a dreadlocks Rastafarian named William Done (AKA) Goldie. Chanel flies back and fourth to Washington, DC and still continues to sleep with Goldie because she is still in love with him in spite of him living with his children´s mother Hanna Benson and her living with another man named Peter in Texas. Goldie and Chanel eventually leave both their partners Hanna and Peter to give their love a try. One man named Goldie with 13 children by 7 different women tries to settle down with one of them which is Chanel, but his former children´s mother Hanna constantly interferes with their relationship. Hanna gives Goldie and Chanel pure hell, and he gives her hope that he will come back to her by still sleeping in her bed. she gets pregnant and Goldie will not admit that he is the father. The games William plays with Chanel and Hanna catches up with him in the long run, and the battle for him gets ugly. Hell has no fury like the other woman scorned! Chanel and Goldie´s relationship becomes unhealthy on a roller coaster that takes the readers along for the ride.
Download or read book The Available Parent written by John Duffy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have a tendency today to over-parent, micro-manage, and under-appreciate our adolescents. Dr. John Duffy's The Available Parent is a revolutionary approach to taking care of teens and tweens. Teenagers are often left feeling unheard and misunderstood, and parents are left feeling bewildered by the changes in their child at adolescence and their sudden lack of effectiveness as parents. The parent has become unavailable, the teen responds in kind, and a negative, often destructive cycle of communication begins. The available parent of a teenager is open to discussion, offering advice and solutions, but not insisting on them. He allows his child to make some mistakes, setting limits, primarily where health and safety are concerned. He never lectures — he is available but not controlling. He is neither cruel nor dismissive, ever. The available parent is fun and funny, and can bring levity to the most stressful situation. All of that is to say, there are no conditions to his availability — it is absolute.
Download or read book Deconstructing Dads written by Laura Tropp and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century, fatherhood is shifting from simply being a sidekick in the parental team to taking center stage with new expectations of involvement and caretaking. The social expectations of fathers start even before the children are born. Mr. Mom is now displaced with fathers who don’t think of themselves as babysitting their own children, but as central decision makers, along with mothers, as parents. Deconstructing Dads: Changing Images of Fathers in Popular Culture is an interdisciplinary edited collection of essays authored by prominent scholars in the fields of media, sociology, and cultural studies who address how media represent the image of the father in popular culture. This collection explores the history of representation of fathers like the “bumbling dad” to question and challenge how far popular culture has come in its representation of paternal figures. Each chapter of this book focuses on a different aspect of media, including how advertising creates expectations of play and father, crime shows and the new hero father, and men as paternal figures in horror films. The book also explores changing definitions of fatherhood by looking at such subjects as how the media represents sperm donation as complicating the definition of father and how specific groups have been represented as fathers, including gay men as dads and Latino fathers in film. This collection examines the media’s depiction of the “good” father to study how it both challenges and reshapes the ways in which we think of family, masculinity, and gender roles.
Download or read book Bringing Up Girls written by James C. Dobson and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned parenting authority and trusted family counselor Dr. Dobson will help parents face the challenges of raising daughters to become strong, healthy, and confident women who excel in life.
Download or read book Parenting Inc written by Pamela Paul and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leading social critic goes inside the billion-dollar baby business to expose the marketing and the myths, helping parents determine what’s worth their money—and what’s a waste Parenting coaches, ergonomic strollers, music classes, sleep consultants, luxury diaper creams, a never-ending rotation of DVDs that will make a baby smarter, socially adept, and bilingual before age three. Time-strapped, anxious parents hoping to provide the best for their baby are the perfect mark for the “parenting” industry. In Parenting, Inc., Pamela Paul investigates the whirligig of marketing hype, peer pressure, and easy consumerism that spins parents into purchasing overpriced products and raising overprotected, overstimulated, and over-provided-for children. Paul shows how the parenting industry has persuaded parents that they cannot trust their children’s health, happiness, and success to themselves. She offers a behind-the-scenes look at the baby business so that any parent can decode the claims—and discover shockingly unuseful products and surprisingly effective services. And she interviews educators, psychologists, and parents to reveal why the best thing for a baby is to break the cycle of self-recrimination and indulgence that feeds into overspending. Paul’s book leads the way for every parent who wants to escape the spiral of fear, guilt, competition, and consumption that characterizes modern American parenthood.
Download or read book Fathers written by Bobby Avila and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fathers" is a true story based on the Avila family legacy. Told from three generations starting with Rosario Avila, the Grandfather of the 1950's. Rosario's sudden death left his son Bobby Ross Avila Sr., devastated and hopeless on a path to self-destruction. The Journey to the Grammys seemed to be impossible for two young Latino men. The Avila Brothers made history in the Urban R&B music industry, and the first to receive 2 Grammys in 2007, announced February 2008. The history behind these two major Hispanic Producers who successfully broke down the barriers and the walls for the less fortunate, and helped open the doors for the ones who lean towards the Urban music highway. The Avila Brothers have focused on their heritage and the history that has followed them both and where their Father and Grandfather came from, the heart of music, now they too, continue the family Legacy.
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Download or read book Be a Father to Your Child written by April R. Silver and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2008-05-23 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do young black fathers relate to their children, as well as to their own fathers? How do they see — and play — their roles in both family and community? These are some of the big questions this timely, accessible book addresses. Written by both popular commentators and those who have experienced the issues firsthand, Be a Father to Your Child begins with a frank discussion of how family formation has changed since the 1960s, especially for communities of color. Individual selections then flesh out historical, sociological, and cultural contexts, examining the impact of welfare, child support, criminal justice, and employment policies on young men of color. In addition to this analytical material, the book presents more personal, anecdotal pieces — including poems and lyrics, short stories, and interviews — that form a powerful composite portrait of the challenges facing modern communities of color, and how to overcome them.
