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Here's where we have the opportunity to tell one another about a special book
we've found for our child or ourselves. Go to the bottom of the page to submit
your own suggestions for the list.
The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon 
by David Elkind.
For the first time in ten years,
a fully-revised
edition of the classic book on how and why we hurry our children into adulthood.
Internationally recognized as the voice of reason and compassion, Dr. Elkind
showed that in blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by
expecting-or imposing-too much too soon, we force our kids to grow up far too
fast. Taking a detailed, up-to-the-minute look at the world of today's children
and teens in terms of the Internet, classroom culture, school violence, movies,
television, and a growing societal incivility, Dr. Elkind shows a whole new
generation of parents where hurrying occurs and why and what we can do about it.
Girls Will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters
by JoAnn Deak, Teresa Barker (Contributor). Deak, a speaker,
school psychologist and educator, offers a practical and reassuring guide for
parents of daughters. The introduction explains why the message of this book is
so important: "Girls face an extraordinary challenge in our changing world. They
are dealing with more sophisticated issues than ever before, and they are doing
so with less adult contact and guidance than ever before." Deak offers a variety
of scenarios along with suggestions for improving the communication . . . this
book provides an intelligent and reasonable plan that many parents will want to
consider.
Raising a Son : Parents and the Making of a Healthy Man
by Jeanne Elium, Don Elium. Boys need to know three things: Who's
the boss? What are the rules? And, are you going to enforce them? Sons need
firm, kind leadership. One of the few parenting books that husbands steal from
their wives, this is the straight-forward, easy-to-read family bookshelf
standard with over 250,000 copies in print. The Eliums continue to chart new
territory with our updated, expanded, and revised edition.
Real Boys : Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood
Listening to the author William Pollack read Real Boys, it
doesn't take long to find out that being a boy these days isn't all fun and
games. As codirector of the Center for Men at McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical
Center, Pollack has seen behind the stoic masks of troubled, modern boys as they
struggle to cope with the mixed messages, conflicting expectations, and
increasingly complex demands they receive from our evolving society. "New
research shows that boys are faring less well ... that many boys have remarkably
fragile self-esteem, and that the rates of both depression and suicide in boys
are frighteningly on the rise."
Touchpoints : Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. "Touchpoints provides chronological accounts of the basic
stages of early childhood, presents (in alphabetical reference form) the
challenges to development, and explores the important role of each
person--father, mother, caregiver--in a child's life."
Touchpoints Three to Six: Your Child's Emotional and Behavioral Development
by T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. "Teaming with child psychiatrist Joshua D.
Sparrow, M.D., Dr. Brazelton offers compassionate suggestions for recognizing
key touchpoints in children 3 to 6 years old, helping kids work through them,
and keeping one's cool throughout the process."
Where can you obtain copies of these books?
Click here to link to the Timberland Regional Library's iPac card catalog.
The Olympia area has a number of local bookstores.
Click here to link to a listing of both new and used bookstores in Olympia.
Check out the "Beyond Olympia" link, too, for bookstores a short drive away.
Your Purchase Helps Our School - If you choose to purchase the book online, please consider making the
purchase through a link on this page. The links near book titles above (built into each company's logo art) will take you to
Powell's Books or
Amazon.com. The links in the logo art below will take
you to the home pages for
Powell's Books or
Amazon.com. Purchases made with
Powell's Books or
Amazon.com through
our links will return a referral fee to the school, which we use to supplement our
operational budget.
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