Defending childhood

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Tony Waters

"This book is about how modern American childhood is shaped by the bureaucratic tools including mass testing, child psychology, and the status hiearchies. This happens in a world where there is an emotional attachment to children in which no child can be left behind, even as the bureaucracies pragmatically sort through individuals of differing abilities. The result is childhoods shaped to meet competing American ideals for individualism, egalitarianism, and utililitarianism. The result is a conservative bureaucratic dance which resembles a game of rochambo, as individualism is trumped by egalitarianism, utilitarianism by individualism, and utilitarianism by egalitarianism"--

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Susan Reid

Twelve contributors bring academic theories relating to child development to life in this revealing study. Areas covered include: intergenerational child-rearing, nurture and nature, and the origins of emotional disturbance.

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David F. Lancy, John Bock, and Suzanne Gaskins

This work offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively little influence on this community. This book will change that. The book demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children's learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it demonstrates the particular contribution that children's learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Chapters have been contributed in archaeology, primatology, biological and cultural anthropology, and cross-cultural psychology.

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Dinah Jayson

Ce livre est destiné à toute personne qui élève des enfants. Il vise à vous aider à comprendre le comportement de votre enfant au fil des étapes normales de son développement, ainsi qu'à gérer tout comportement problématique. Bon nombre de stratégies peuvent vous aider, que vous ayez un enfant difficile, ou que vous souhaitiez simplement améliorer votre relation avec votre enfant. Le présent ouvrage offre quelques solutions que vous pourrez mettre à l'essai. Une meilleure compréhension du comportement de votre enfant peut vous aider à mieux gérer la situation. Il existe de nombreuses stratégies qui peuvent vous aider à gérer un enfant au comportement difficile. Il n'y a pas une seule "bonne" façon de gérer les problèmes de comportement ; chaque situation est unique et doit être considérée individuellement. Il existe un grand nombre de ressources d'aide. Cet ouvrage vous aidera à mieux comprendre le comportement des enfants et, à l'aide de solutions concrètes, vous aidera à gérer les situations difficiles.