The article focuses on the use of lifebooks to help children in foster care homes. While lifebooks have been increasingly used to help the child in care "come to terms with the past, and prepare for the future," and in doing so, to address the "central issue" of identity this article...
What we record now about our child will help him or her later in the difficult teen task of forging a positive identity. Child-Created Lifebooks Even if you’ve made a scrapbook or lifebook for your child, kids this age like to tell their own stories. Here’s how to help. Adoption...
for very good reason. Her common sense approach to positive discipline makes perfect sense — and yet, it can feel counterintuitive to those of us who were raised by authoritarian parents. InPeaceful Parent, Happy Kids, she clearly explains how to parent in a way that feels better to both...
“Sometimes the refridgerator took pride in keeping things cool and crisp and other times it didn’t seem to care.” Don DeLilo, The Itch –Meh this didn’t really do much for me (neither the story nor the Joy Williams discussion of it – what an interesting story for her to pick!)...
Parenting with Love and Logicby Foster Cline “This parenting book shows you how to raise self-confident, motivated children who are ready for the real world. Learn how to parent effectively while teaching your children responsibility and growing their character. ...
Discover the importance ofapplying positive psychology principlesin education, business, healthcare, and other domains to foster flourishing individuals and communities. Written by psychologist Martin E. P. Seligman, this book focuses on raising the bar for happiness. It addressesfeelings of optimism, ...
Private, a literature professor, his wife, and their five kids refuse to leave their home when the Israeli army breaks in one night and confines them to their living room. The father doesn’t want them to become refugees; and he thinks that if he leaves, one day his children will not ...
Aurelia Rubbini, the only child of a rich merchant in fourteenth century Italy, has been raised to be a dutiful daughter, wife and mother, but she longs for something more than the restricted life intended for her. Then one day, her father brings home from a buying trip an Asian slave ...
Life Story work helps kids separated from their birth families to make sense of their early lives. Children who go through the foster care system often experience multiple different placements and social workers before ageing out or being adopted. Life story books that feature information about a ...