The Death Of Childhood
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| Author | : Victor Strasburger |
| Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2019-04-16 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1527533298 |
Written by an international expert on the effects of media on children, The Death of Childhood provides a fascinating—and sobering—look at what it means to grow up in America today. Following in the footsteps of Neil Postman, Marie Winn, and Mary Pipher, this riveting and heart-breaking book is an obituary to childhood, exploring its origins and tracing its progress to what could be its bitter end in the early 21st century—if we don’t act now to resuscitate it. No longer are we raising children in the idyllic world that many of today’s grandparents and parents remember—a world filled with kick-the-can, unsupervised bike adventures and dog-walking, and the freedom to explore. Now, thanks to the Internet, new technology, and social networking, the complexion of childhood has changed and there are no adult “secrets” anymore—the answer to every question exists a fingertip’s reach away in cyberspace. It’s not just technology and media that are changing, childhood is also suffering the effects of underfunded schools, inattentive parents, a plethora of guns, and a hostile society. Despite all of that, this book shows that there is hope, and offers solutions to restore the charm and innocence of childhood.
| Author | : David Buckingham |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 2013-06-06 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0745656919 |
What will be the fate of childhood in the twenty-first century? Will children increasingly be living 'media childhoods', dominated by the electronic screen? Will their growing access to adult media help to abolish the distinctions between childhood and adulthood? Or will the advent of new media technologies widen the gaps between the generations still further? In this book, David Buckingham provides a lucid and accessible overview of recent changes both in childhood and in the media environment. He refutes simplistic moral panics about the negative influence of the media, and the exaggerated optimism about the 'electronic generation'. In the process, he points to the challenges that are posed by the proliferation of new technologies, the privatization of the media and of public space, and the polarization between media-rich and media-poor. He argues that children can no longer be excluded or protected from the adult world of violence, commercialism and politics; and that new strategies and policies are needed in order to protect their rights as citizens and as consumers. Based on extensive research, After the Death of Childhood takes a fresh look at well-established concerns about the effects of the media on children. It offers a challenging and refreshing approach to the perennial concerns of researchers, parents, educators, media producers and policy-makers.
| Author | : Peter Stanford |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2011-05-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 1441168869 |
The Death of a Child is a collection of a dozen essays in which parents and siblings tell their own stories of losing a child, brother or sister, and of how they have coped with bereavement and grief. Their experiences range from the earliest losses - actress and author Carol Drinkwater's miscarriages, Irish writer Catherine Dunne's still-birth and the death of Sarah Brown's daughter Jennifer at ten days old - right up to campaigner Augusto Odone losing his severely disabled son, Lorenzo, the day after his 30th birthday, or novelist Wendy Perriam coping with the death of her daughter, Pauline, when she was 43. The essays reflect the different causes of bereavement - illness (brief and long-term), accident, and malice. The collection ends with a reflection by the celebrated psychotherapist, Dorothy Rowe, on surviving the loss of a child, and a glossary of useful organisations.
| Author | : Gerald Watkins Bracey |
| Publisher | : Heinemann Educational Books |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : |
No matter what he's called, Gerald Bracey IS public schools' best defender. And in this book, he uses his considerable writing and research skills on their behalf.
| Author | : Jeanne Webster Blank |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2016-11-03 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1351863452 |
This book was written to be a comfort and guide for bereaved parents whose adult child has died; to show by sharing our experiences that we are not alone in our responses to our child's death; that we are not weak, defective in character or otherwise inadequate because of the way we grieve; to spell out ways in which some of us have increased our understanding of our condition, found solace, dispelled guilt and anger, overcome depression, come to terms with survivors, and memorialized our deceased children. Questionnaires were sent to more than sixty bereaved parents of adult children who died and many anonymous examples from these questionnaires are used throughout the book.
| Author | : Bryan Mellonie |
| Publisher | : Bantam |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2009-09-16 |
| Genre | : Family & Relationships |
| ISBN | : 0307569683 |
When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand? Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings. And about endings. And about living in between. With large, wonderful illustrations, it tells about plants. About animals. About people. It tells that dying is as much a part of living as being born. It helps us to remember. It helps us to understand. Lifetimes . . . a very special, very important book for you and your child. The book that explains—beautifully—that all living things have their own special Lifetimes.
| Author | : Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2011-07-26 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1439125422 |
On Children and Death is a major addition to the classic works of Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, whose On Death and Dying and Living with Death and Dying have been continuing sources of strength and solace for tens of millions of devoted readers worldwide. Based on a decade of working with dying children, this compassionate book offers the families of dead and dying children the help -- and hope -- they need to survive. In warm, simple language, Dr. Kübler-Ross speaks directly to the fears, doubts, anger, confusion, and anguish of parents confronting the terminal illness or sudden death of a child.
| Author | : Victor Strasburger |
| Publisher | : Thomas Dunne Books |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-12-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781250124005 |
What does it mean to grow up in the 21 st century? Today's parents and grandparents probably remember happier times, when cyberbullying and sexting were unknown terms and kids could play outside after school or actually go to school without fear of being shot. Now, the Internet, cell phones, iPads, and social networking sites have completely changed the complexion of childhood. There are no adult "secrets" anymore - the answers to any questions exist at a fingertip's reach, in cyberspace. And it's not just the technology and media that is changing. Schools are too poor and too burdened with standardized tests to educate adequately, and our federal government and society at large are all too willing to ignore children's and adolscent's needs as the population grows older and grayer.This book is an obituary to childhood, exploring its origins and tracing its progress to its bitter end in the early 21 st century, suffocated to death by media, inept schools, inattentive parents, a gun-crazed minority, and a hostile society. Childhood, however, can still be ressurected. Victor Strasburger's THE DEATH OF CHILDHOOD is both a guide for a generation of parents unsure of how childhood fits into our new landscape, and an academic treatsie on the disappearance of of those brief and early years called "childhood."
| Author | : Ann K. Finkbeiner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Bereavement |
| ISBN | : |
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious ways they devise to preserve the bond. Through detailed profiles of parents, Ann Finkbeiner shows how new activities and changed relationships with their spouse, friends, and other children can all help parents preserve a bond with the lost child. Refusing to fall back on pop jargon about "recovery" or to offer easy suggestions or standardized timelines, Finkbeiner's is a genuine and moving search to come to terms with loss. Her complex profiles of parents resonate with the honesty and authenticity of uncomfortable emotions expressed and, most importantly, shared with others experiencing a similar loss. Finally, each profile exemplifies the many heroic ways parents learn to live with their pain, and by so doing, honor the lives their children should have lived.
| Author | : Jayson Greene |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2019-05-14 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1524733547 |
“A gripping and beautiful book about the power of love in the face of unimaginable loss.” --Cheryl Strayed For readers of The Bright Hour and When Breath Becomes Air, a moving, transcendent memoir of loss and a stunning exploration of marriage in the wake of unimaginable grief. As the book opens: two-year-old Greta Greene is sitting with her grandmother on a park bench on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A brick crumbles from a windowsill overhead, striking her unconscious, and she is immediately rushed to the hospital. But although it begins with this event and with the anguish Jayson and his wife, Stacy, confront in the wake of their daughter's trauma and the hours leading up to her death, Once More We Saw Stars quickly becomes a narrative that is as much about hope and healing as it is about grief and loss. Jayson recognizes, even in the midst of his ordeal, that there will be a life for him beyond it--that if only he can continue moving forward, from one moment to the next, he will survive what seems unsurvivable. With raw honesty, deep emotion, and exquisite tenderness, he captures both the fragility of life and absoluteness of death, and most important of all, the unconquerable power of love. This is an unforgettable memoir of courage and transformation--and a book that will change the way you look at the world.
