Understanding Children's Personal Lives and Relationships

Understanding Children's Personal Lives and Relationships
Author: Hayley Davies
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2016-04-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137030070

Informed by ethnographic research with children, Davies offers new sociological insights into children's personal relationships, as well as closely examining methodological approaches to researching with children and researching relationships.

Parenting Matters

Parenting Matters
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 525
Release: 2016-11-21
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309388570

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.

Communication and Relationships

Communication and Relationships
Author: Dr Rosina McAlpine
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2014-12-16
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0987336231

Is your child a good communicator? Can your child make & keep the right kinds of friends? Do you want your child to be a good leader& team player? 12 step-by-step activities help parents support children to manage their emotions & develop effective & thoughtful communication which helps kids build strong relationships with family, friends & peers.Research shows that kids who have close friends are safer from bullying and are less likely to experience anxiety & depression than children who are loners. Kids feel safest and happiest when they have good friends. Kids are social by nature, so being able to manage their emotions, communicate & relate with others is a valuable skill for building personal relationships with family & friends. It's heartbreaking for a parent to hear their child say; 'I've got no friends, nobody wants to be with me'. And, it's frightening for parents when their kids get in with the wrong crowd. Help your child make the right kinds of friends, know what it means to be a good friend & develop their communication skills so you can feel relaxed knowing they can make & keep good friends. One of the main ingredients of good communication is listening & managing emotions. Research shows that most people are not good listeners. However, we all want to be heard & understood, & it's for this reason that people who have good listening skills tend to have more successful interpersonal relationships & closer friendships.Understanding the complexity of social relationships requires more than just trial & error, or a simple understanding of 'manners'. Communication & social skills are developed over time, through a comprehensive program of instruction, interaction, experience, reflection & practice. At school kids have so many team projects and activities. Learning how to cooperate & work in a group, as well as understanding when to take the lead & when to follow, are valuable skills for ensuring your child's good education. Other social skills your kids will learn in this book include active listening, understanding how to avoid unnecessary conflict, managing & expressing anger in an effective way & how to be a good communicator. Each of these activities supports your child to develop strong relationships with their family & friends, as well as relate in a productive & harmonious way in life.

The Emotional Incest Syndrome

The Emotional Incest Syndrome
Author: Dr. Patricia Love
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2011-07-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0307799182

From Dr. Patricia Love, a ground-breaking work that identifies, explores and treats the harmful effects that emotionally and psychologically invasive parents have on their children, and provides a program for overcoming the chronic problems that can result.

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan
Author: Patricia Noller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-08-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1134970765

Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the role of personal relationships in people's lives. Highlighting areas of special significance and research interest at each major life-stage, Patricia Noller, Judith A. Feeney and Candida Peterson, examine how close relationships develop over time and influence individual adjustment. They explore a wide range of relationships, including some that are often neglected, such as those with siblings, adult children and elderly parents. They also look at alternative family forms, such as single-parent families and step-families, and address important themes such as intimacy, conflict and power. With insightful discussion of the theory and methods typically used by researchers working in this area, Personal Relationships Across the Lifespan is an ideal resource for students and researchers of both relationships and lifespan development. It will also be of interest to practitioners, such as social workers and family therapists, working with clients with relational concerns and anyone wanting to learn more about the nature of relationships.

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8

Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 587
Release: 2015-07-23
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0309324882

Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifelong progress, and the adults who provide for the care and the education of young children bear a great responsibility for their health, development, and learning. Despite the fact that they share the same objective - to nurture young children and secure their future success - the various practitioners who contribute to the care and the education of children from birth through age 8 are not acknowledged as a workforce unified by the common knowledge and competencies needed to do their jobs well. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 explores the science of child development, particularly looking at implications for the professionals who work with children. This report examines the current capacities and practices of the workforce, the settings in which they work, the policies and infrastructure that set qualifications and provide professional learning, and the government agencies and other funders who support and oversee these systems. This book then makes recommendations to improve the quality of professional practice and the practice environment for care and education professionals. These detailed recommendations create a blueprint for action that builds on a unifying foundation of child development and early learning, shared knowledge and competencies for care and education professionals, and principles for effective professional learning. Young children thrive and learn best when they have secure, positive relationships with adults who are knowledgeable about how to support their development and learning and are responsive to their individual progress. Transforming the Workforce for Children Birth Through Age 8 offers guidance on system changes to improve the quality of professional practice, specific actions to improve professional learning systems and workforce development, and research to continue to build the knowledge base in ways that will directly advance and inform future actions. The recommendations of this book provide an opportunity to improve the quality of the care and the education that children receive, and ultimately improve outcomes for children.

The Giving Tree

The Giving Tree
Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-02-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0061965103

As The Giving Tree turns fifty, this timeless classic is available for the first time ever in ebook format. This digital edition allows young readers and lifelong fans to continue the legacy and love of a classic that will now reach an even wider audience. "Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. This moving parable for all ages offers a touching interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, and of classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit. And don't miss the other Shel Silverstein ebooks, Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic!

Family Life

Family Life
Author: Jesper Juul
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-07-27
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1468579290

This book captures the essence of modern family life. Much has changed since our own childhoods; the good old days. Todays parents are challenged by the need to invent their own parenting style. This can only happen from within, based on our personal values and boundaries. Jesper Juul puts it very clearly: The love we feel for our children and our partners does not in itself have any value. It has no value at all until it is converted into loving behavior. Each chapter focuses on the values that form a solid platform on which to build a family: Equal dignity, Integrity, Authenticity and Responsibility. This makes family life more meaningful and parents avoid living frantically from conflict to conflict, desperately searching for quick solutions and trying to adapt to the most popular parenting technique of the day. A book full of everyday examples and practical ideas.

Understanding Relationships

Understanding Relationships
Author: Steve Duck
Publisher: Guilford Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1991-05-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 9780898624700

The study of personal relationships has proliferated as an interdisciplinary social science field. In this volume, leading authority Steve Duck brings the reader up to date on basic concepts and research findings on all aspects of personal relationships. The book discusses how children learn key relationship skills and how adult relationships start, develop, and are sustained, including friendship, romance, and heterosexual and same-sex partnerships. Coverage of clinical and social policy implications of the research gives the book a practical edge. This accessible, engaging book contains much of value for students of relationships, communication studies, and psychology.

Young Children’s Knowledge of Relational Terms

Young Children’s Knowledge of Relational Terms
Author: Lucia French
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1985-10-25
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

An appreciation of temporal and logical relationships is one of the essential and defining features of human cognition. A central question in developmental psy chology, and in the philosophical speculations out of which psychology evolved, has been how children come to understand temporal and logical relationships. For many recent investigators, this question has been translated into empiri cal studies of children's acquisition of relational terms-words such as before, after, because, so, if, but, and or that permit the linguistic expression of logi cal relationships. In the mid 1970s, Katherine Nelson began to study young children's knowledge about routine activities in which they participated. The goal of this research was to understand how children represented their personal experiences and how these representations contributed to further cognitive development. A primary method used in the early phases of this research involved simply asking children to describe familiar events. They were asked, for example, "What happens when you have lunch at school?" or "What happens at a birthday party?" Hundreds of transcripts of children's responses to such questions were available when Lucia French became an NICHD Postdoctoral Fellow in Developmental Psychology at City University of New York in 1979.