What Stories Does my son need?: A Guide to Books and Movies that Build Character in Boys

Book Description

The author shows parents and teachers how to harness the media's influence to teach boys the lessons they need in today's confusing moral environment. The author gives particular ethical lessons for many great movies and books.

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Hmmm...why you might not need to buy this book.......2006-03-25

I love Amazon's Search Inside the Book feature but in this case is it doing the author any favors when it lists most of the books (listed by age group) which he suggests are appropriate? If you can see the books and movies, why buy the book?

ALso, just by glancing over the contents I could see which movies would work for my kids and which they'd seen or didn't like. This was enough to convince me that the book had nothing new to say to me that I hadn't already seen by using this feature.

Sorry. But that's my take.

A good foundation.......2005-11-29

This book has great age-appropriate movie and book suggestions. The topics of discussion have been very useful for us... our 5 year old son now specfically asks us to pause the movie or book so that he can get clarification regarding the concepts or words he does not understand. On the inside cover, I jot down the newer books or movies that strike me as being potentially inspiring for my son in the future. I REALLY wish Mr. Gurian would write a version of this book for girls! I have had to start my own list for my daughter.

useful.......2005-10-11

I find this book useful in choosing movies for my son and in pulling out character building topics to discuss with him. This book acknowledges that boys connect with media and gives specific ideas how parents can USE that power rather than simply be subject to it. I do have to agree with the other reviewers, I'd like to see more; a little more depth and an updated version to include more recent books and movies.

Simple & straight to the heart.......2004-03-10

A wonderful list. Yes, as other reviewers point out, there is 'nothing new here'. But parents today are bombarded with books and videos for kids and don't often have time to sift through them all as thoughtfully as the authors have done here. They've done a wonderful job of reviewing stories we know and love from a boy's perspective. My 6 year old gets way too much pressure to act like a girl, I'm grateful for movie & book reviews that acknowledge not just that it's ok to be a boy, but actually quite wonderful. The discussion questions may not be the ones you want to ask, but they get you thinking along the right lines.

Excellent Idea, But Left Out The Best One.......2002-01-29

This book is an excellent idea. However, the authors left out what I have found to be the best one for our sons AND OUR DAUGHTERS. Add the book, "West Point" by Norman Thomas Remick to your list (in fact, this should be first as it gives the basics). It's a veritable education in character and leadership.

In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences

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It just makes sense
Seven intelligence Types
You'll never force a square peg into a round hole again!
Should be required reading
A light in the tunnel of failure

In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Multiple Intelligences
Thomas Armstrong
Manufacturer: Tarcher
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ASIN: 1585420514

Book Description

Does your child have a favorite subject, activity, or hobby? Children learn in multiple ways, and educator Thomas Armstrong has shown hundreds of thousands of parents and teachers how to locate those unique areas in each of our children where learning and creativity seem to flow with special vigor.

In this fully updated classic on multiple intelligences, Armstrong sheds new light on the "eight ways to bloom," or the eight kinds of "multiple intelligences." While everyone possesses all eight intelligences, Armstrong delineates how to discover your child's particular areas of strength among them.

The book shatters the conventional wisdom that brands our students as "underachievers," "unmotivated," or as suffering from "learning disabilities," "attention deficit hyperactivity disorder," or other "learning diseases." Armstrong explains how these flawed labels often overlook students who are in possession of a distinctive combination of multiple intelligences, and demonstrates how to help them acquire knowledge and skills according to their sometimes extraordinary aptitudes.

Filled with resources for the home and classroom, this new edition of In Their Own Way offers inspiration for every learning situation.

Customer Reviews:

It just makes sense.......2005-06-14

I encourage anyone, everyone to read about these theories and apply them as best as they can to students, their own children, other children they may encounter, if you are stuck in that must-sit-still-and-listen traditional-mindset, you owe it to yourself and others to open up your mind to how kids learn differently. Would love to have this be enforced reading for certain teachers my children and I have encountered in the past.

Seven intelligence Types.......2005-05-28

The Education Products Information Exchange shockingly reported, 80% of the content in school textbooks was known by students before they studied. If the content was known then education meant time consumption and rising tides of mediocrity. A national education reaction was expressed in the book "Nation at Risk" providing the following recommendation: 1) rigorous grading 2) more standardized tests 3) better textbooks 4) and adherence to English, Math, Science, Social Sciences, and Computer Science. The core curriculum was designed for students to compete against other nations but considered boring by students.

What does 500 million standardize test mean? First, standardized implies keeping someone out. Standardize tests force sterilization of alleged defective individuals. In 1930, standardized tests were used to keep immigrants out of the U.S. One should be asking themselves, "Is formal testing the best way to determine competency?", "What do these tests measure?" and "Do these test encourage fault finding rather than discovery of strengthens?" Business maximums absolutely focus on strengthens rather than weakness to survive. Businesses manage weakness. What doesn't the educational system do likewise? Standardizing tests are faulty in their construction, represent poor subject selection, and faulty in research design. 500 million standardize tests means significant defect!

Learning Disability implies a specific neurological disorder. Interestingly, no biological neurological correlation has been proven indicating learning disorder students have a problem. So no biological proof exists that these student's brains are different. Diagnostics do not access the students learning style. Instead, the learning disability diagnostics are used to pick and pry for weakness administered by certified qualified experts. These qualified experts do not have comparable academic qualifications such as Phds in professional psychiatry or psychology. Yet the experts are making professional assessments about the student education capabilities. Experts diagnose to the following disabilities: dyslexia, hyperactivity, dysfunctional auditory, sequential memory, attention deficit, reading difficulty, math block, underachievement, and overachievement.

Learning Disability is revolutionary in scope, 50% of the students are labeled with a certain degree of learning disability, including overachievers. Perhaps these students just learn differently and the mere suggestion that one model for learning applies to all students is irrational. For example, Norman Geschwind, observed those "dyslexic" students, "probably a mythical made-up term", have: unusual drawing and artistic skills, a strong mechanical aptitude, and above average special dimension capability. A learning diagnostic revolution has permeated the education system. Students are required to sit for long periods of time and decode long complicated instructions. Teachers talk too much, 1/5 of the day is spent in teacher explanations and instructions. Too much talking "at" and not "to" the student; too much money interest, $1.5 billion in textbook sales ensure that product is politically and culturally marketed and declarative statements help ensure students believe absolutely; too much task analysis, task analysis represents a fragmented approach to learning where each activity is broke in parts and performance measured against the parts. The end result is a current count of 2 million students labeled as having a learning disability. The percent increase of 21.5% in 1977 too 40.9% by 1983 suggests more students need special education services and these services need federal additional funding. Few of these educationally handicapped children ever make it back into mainstream education.

Contrarian's evidence builds up. Any contradictory evidence is viewed with skepticism and rejection, but gradually contrary evidence builds until such time it cannot be rejected. Teachers teach from their lesson plans. Lesson plan educational training ignores the multiple intelligence of the student. The huge number of "Home-Schooler's" and their movement suggests evidence that learning intelligence models have become an issue. The problem is not the system structure: public verse charter/private nor public verses home-school, but in the ignorance about learning intelligence.

Can the system really have so many learning disabled students? A new learning model must emerge. Many parents feel they need to motivate their children to learn. Perhaps learning starts by determine the type or combination of intelligence types, your child exhibits: linguistic learn best by saying, hearing, and seeing words; logical learn best by forming concepts and looking for abstract patterns and relationships; spatial learn through images, pictures, and color; kinesthetic learn by touching, manipulation, and movement; musical learn through rhythm and melody; interpersonal learn best by relating and cooperating; intrapersonal learn best when left too them selves. Learning how to get your c

You'll never force a square peg into a round hole again!.......2004-10-19

This is the kind of book you have to keep replacing because when you loan it out it won't come back!

Should be required reading.......2002-03-14

If you ever thought your child might have ADHD, or any other learning disability, you must read this. If you are a pediatrician, it's likely you've been pressured by schools into diagnosing patients with ADHD. Please read this before you do. Teachers/educational specialists can really learn from the masterpiece:"In Their Own Way". The brilliant author, Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., inspires us to "respect the garden of childhood" and not slap a "flawed label" such "attention deficit hyperactivity" on kids. Many kids have been branded as "underachievers", "learning disabled", simply have a nontraditional style of learning, Armstrong says. Each child has his own unique combination of multiple intelligences in learning, which must be honored and nurtured." We should not be putting these kids in remedial groups or writing them off as underachievers. Instead, he suggests: "We should use better teaching strategies appropriate to the real needs of the kids, based on their multiple intelligences." Better yet, Dr. Armstrong gives concrete teaching strategy suggestions parents and teachers can follow. He also lists learning materials, books, games,internet sites, and computer software to foster the eight intelligences. If we believe Dr. Armstrong, nurturing kids is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Children rise to the highest level of our expectations. Parents and teachers can have hope. A generation of "ADHD labeled" kids or "learning disabled" kids need not be thought of as patients needing lifelong medication or remediation, but as potential Stephen Hawkings, just waiting to be nurtured properly. It is our responsibility to help these souls find their own way. It is our future.

A light in the tunnel of failure.......2001-03-28

I read this book while on a 3 hour bus ride to St Mary's City with my son's 4th grade class. I was so overjoyed to have found something that provided a glimmer of recognition for my son's abilities. He was labled ADD and after several years of fighting it I was finally starting to say "Well, he is very bright, BUT he has ADD." Well, now I will say he is a Kinesthetic, Spatial and partially linguistic learner. He is bright and capable and he just doesnt fit into the traditional teaching styles, along with another 80% of the population. There is nothing WRONG with him. This book can help so many people regain confidence in themselves, their children and loved ones. Confidence that our tradtional school sytem has systematically destroyed in hundreds of thousands of bright, wonderful children by trying to force them to learn in a way that is not only unatural for them, but also, many times, impossible. This book helped me to understand my son, myself,and even my husband. Now I have some of the tools that can help me reach them. ADD may exist, but 99% of it is in the eye of the beholder.

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Rotties will again
Carl Goes to Daycare
Nice to see Baby finally gets some adult supervision
confusing storyline
Great book!

Carl Goes to Daycare (Carl)

Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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ASIN: 0374310939

Book Description

Carl the rottweiler takes charge when things take an unexpected turn at the day care center he is visiting.

Customer Reviews:

Rotties will again.......2007-06-27

It is great to see a rottweiller as a protagonist in a book. This book shows how important a pet can be to all of the family members. Rottweillers are wonderful family pets, and this is a cute story of Carl and his favorite little girl.

Carl Goes to Daycare.......2007-01-09

This book is adorable! There are two parallel story threads, with Carl and baby at daycare, and the daycare provider being locked out of the daycare. My 3-year-old children love it, and I do, too.

Nice to see Baby finally gets some adult supervision.......2006-12-22

I know the Carl books are based on whimsy, that Carl can take care of baby. But seriously, the series makes me want to call CPS. Nice to see that the parents have FINALLY tried to get an adult to watch the baby. Of course, the adult is incompetent, but it's a start.

4 stars for the parents not entrusting their child to the dog!

confusing storyline.......2006-03-02

My son and I found this book to be less satisfying than other books about Carl (my son's favorite dog! :)The storyline is confusing and there are too many unnecessary details in the pictures. It looks like Alexandra Day switched to watercolors in this book and that was not a good change because pictures are not clear now.

Great book!.......2002-12-18

My 2 yo loves this book (and the other Carl books we have). He's a bit nervous around real dogs so I saw this book as a way to show him that dogs are fun and not scary. We have to read it every night (at least once) before bed. When I've had enough, he'll "read" it to himself.

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach

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The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach
Bob Bertolino , and Kevin Thompson
Manufacturer: Haworth Medical Press
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ASIN: 0789009129

Book Description

Explore how these therapeutic practices can enhance your work as a residential youth care worker!

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action: A Collaborative, Competency-Based Approach will help youth care workers administer psychotropic medications, understand psychiatric labels, handle crisis and staffing, and give accurate assessments. Emphasizing ideas that focus on the strengths and abilities of young people from the assessment phase of treatment through discharge, this guidebook will help you take the views and actions of youths into consideration from a change-oriented perspective in order to offer your clients appropriate services.

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action serves to fill in the gap between therapists and residential youth care workers (RYCWs) by emphasizing ideas that therapists have been using for years. This resourceful book takes a relatively new direction in the field by focusing on competency-based as opposed to problem-focused methods. Many of the major concerns that you face as a youth care worker are addressed with easy-to-learn and use therapeutic ideas, suggestions, new approaches, and techniques that are demonstrated through case illustrations. Some of these competency-based ideas include:

focusing on what is changeable for youths as opposed to what is not

exploring how you can use language to convey respect and facilitate change by focusing on a youth's possibilities instead of his or her past behavior

using solution talk instead of problem talk, such as saying a youth is very energetic at times instead of hyperactive

respecting young people, their viewpoints, and experiences to create a context and climate that is conducive to change

exploring future roads with possibilities by helping young people create compelling futures,

dissolve barriers, and take action toward those preferred futures

managing crisis intervention while simultaneously allowing youth to keep their pride

helping young people realize their accountability within the roles of both psychotropic medications and psychiatric labels

The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action explains several approaches that you can use to positively impact the lives of the young people in your residential facility. Complete with handouts and diagrams such as a post-crisis debriefing form, a level promotion petition form, and a weekly success chart that can be reproduced and used in various residential programs, The Residential Youth Care Worker in Action will help you create a positive atmosphere for youths and prepare them for a successful future.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves Chronicles)
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The Human Wolves are the Worst

Drags a Bit - but Leaves an Impression (Spoiler-Free)

Delightful

Wolves

A Great Book, A Great Film, and...Dido Twite?

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Wolves Chronicles)
Joan Aiken
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ASIN: 0385327900
Release Date: 2000-11-14

Book Description

Wicked wolves and a grim governess threaten Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia when Bonnie's parents leave Willoughby Chase for a sea voyage. Left in the care of the cruel Miss Slighcarp, the girls can hardly believe what is happening to their once happy home. The servants are dismissed, the furniture is sold, and Bonnie and Sylvia are sent to a prison-like orphan school. It seems as if the endless hours of drudgery will never cease.

With the help of Simon the gooseboy and his flock, they escape. But how will they ever get Willoughby Chase free from the clutches of the evil Miss Slighcarp?

Customer Reviews:

The Human Wolves are the Worst.......2007-08-04

This book will appeal to pre-teen girls, since the young
protagonists are two cousins who survive eerie events mainly because of their wits and their devotion to each other. Three new arrivals at Willoughby Chase--four hours from London--impact the quiet, country estate. On the eve of the parents' departure for sunny climes for the mother's delicate health, the kindly squire fails to scrutinize the face and motives of his distant cousin, one Miss Slighcarp. This classic villainess plans to curb Bonnie's impulsive nature and to cover timid Sylvia, once the adults have departed for their (ill-fated) voyage. Readers soon discover that this "governess" is not alone in her scheme to take over the estate and disinherit the girls.

This delightful book begs to be read aloud; it defies the usual genre definition, yet charms by its unique style. Referring to the title, wolves are indeed very much a part of this story, as they prove a real threat to human life in long ago England. Roaming in voracious packs they prove a nocturnal menace to children and adults alike. So who will protect these isolated little girls from the vicious predators--with four and two legs? Fortunately there are two loyal servants and an enterprising goose boy who stand by our heroines, stepping up bravely to defy Slighcarp and her cronies.

WOLVES is reminiscent of Dickens because of the strange names of many characters (personality hints) and the author's shocking expose of harsh conditions in an "orphanage," which seems more like a workhouse or prison. The children prove resourceful and pro-active in their own behalf---not the passive victims Miss Slighcarp expected. Thus the Deus ex Machina ending still satisfies. (I love the London cops riding confidently on the train out to the country, to teach the local constabulary their job!) WOLVES is a cute, clever and highly enjoyable read for kids of all ages!

Drags a Bit - but Leaves an Impression (Spoiler-Free).......2007-03-17

Okay, hows this for a setup? The hugely rich Mr. Green a/k/a Sir Willoughby, his wife, his rambunctious little daughter Bonnie, and a small army or servants live in a vast mansion on grounds within a huge forest estate (a "chase") infested with ravenous man-eating wolves. The Greens have just adoped their timid orphaned neice Sylvia. No sooner has Sylvia arrived, however, when Mr. & Mrs. Green leave on a 6-month sea voyage in the hopes of benefitting the wife's ailing health. They leave the 2 girls, the servants, and the estate under the care and charge of their new governess, a distant cousin named Miss Slighcarp. Needless to say, Slighcarp is a villain, and she and her allies start showing their true colors the instant the Greens are out to sea. The Wolves, it seems, are not confined to the forest, and the children must beware.

It is very colorful, as well as unapologetically outrageous (man-eating wolves in snow-covered forests laying siege to railroad trains in the heart of England). However, if you are expecting a zany, silly, thrill-a-minute adventure, you may be disappointed. Aiken writes as though she takes it all dead seriously (this is, in fact, part of the appeal). There is significant attention to background and detail, much of which enhances the mood and atmosphere. She is less effective in pushing the story foreward, which progresses in fits and starts before meandering to a conclusion.

The lack of focus means, unfortunately, that there are many opportunities for the reader to lose patience and stop reading. This is a shame, for though Aiken's writings are not always compulsive page turners, she has an ability to weave memories that stay with the reader, and leave them hungry for more.

This book is the first in a series of about 11 books, which are now being called the "Wolves Chronicles". In the second book, "Black Hearts in Battersea" (another great title) it is made more explicit that they are set in an alternate-history England very different from our own.

If your child is one who tends not to finish books, I might be good to start with "Nightbirds on Nantucket" -- the third book in the series. As a child, it was "Nightbirds" that I first read all the way through. I then was sufficiently interested to go back and read "Wolves" and "Battersea" all the way through, despite having previously attempted them and put them down. This is perhaps not ideal, since it may spoil the impact of certain surprises, but it is better than not reading them at all.

Delightful.......2006-11-22

Young Bonnie Green lives in the grand Willoughby Chase with her loving parents and an assortment of kind servants in Aiken's own altered version of Victorian-era England. Bonnie's mother has fallen ill and her father is taking her on an extended journey at sea. Bonnie's father has sent for a distant relative, Miss Slighcarp, to look after Bonnie and her cousin Sylvia who is arriving from London on the same day. Things quickly take a turn for the worse under Miss Slighcarp's care.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a story full of hungry wolves, orphan schools, a boy and his geese, a trip by foot to London, parents that are presumed dead, kind doctors, and lying amnesiacs.

Thoroughly enjoyable.

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is the first book in a series, thought Bonnie and Sylvia do not make appearances in subsequent books.

Wolves.......2006-10-17

My dad read this to me when I was about 9, and I thought it was just the most fascinating story ever. I read it to my 9-year old sister a while ago, and she loved it just as much as I did.

The combination of danger (wolves, bad adults) with comfort and safety (warm mansion, cozy apartment, good adults) is irresistable. The contrast between cruelty (mean governesses, dungeons, starvation) and justice in the end makes for a truly satisfying read.

Now that I am older, I realize this book is not as well-written as I thought it was then. But that doesn't matter; the plot is exciting and perfect. I recommend this book for ages 8-13.

A Great Book, A Great Film, and...Dido Twite?.......2006-07-03

I was first introduced to The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase through the 1989 British-made film of the same name starring Stephanie Beacham (Miss Slighcarp), Mel Smith (Mr. Grimshaw), Emily Hudson (Bonnie), and Aleks Darowska (Sylvia). The film is superb and it is a shame that it is currently out of print almost everywhere (I had to order a poorly recorded VHS version from Canada in order to get a copy of it). I had never heard of the book or its author, Joan Aiken, before I saw the film. The book is even better than the film and should delight anyone who finds stories involving children, wolves, mansions, and evil governesses entertaining. Both the book and the film were childhood favorites of mine and I love them as much today as I did then. Upon purchasing the other five books in Joan Aiken's Wolves Chronicles (Blackhearts in Battersea, Nightbirds on Nantucket, The Cuckoo Tree, The Stolen Lake, and Dido and Pa), I was disappointed to learn that the other five books focus on the increasingly unwieldy adventures of Dido Twite, a character introduced in the second book. Bonnie and Sylvia Greene are never mentioned again. It is as if the last five books are a series and the first book stands alone as a separate story (the only element that links TWOWC to the other books is Simon, a character who appears again in the second book). I found this incongruency rather odd and irritating, but I'm sure that Dido Twite has her fans. Just don't read the other books expecting to hear more about Bonnie, Sylvia, and Willoughby Chase. TWOWC is truly a lone ranger.

Ritalin is Not the Answer Action Guide: An Interactive Companion to the Bestselling Drug-Free ADD/ADHD Parenting Program

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Talk about transformation!
common sense for adhd
Skip the drugs and the psychiatrist. Read this book first!

Ritalin is Not the Answer Action Guide: An Interactive Companion to the Bestselling Drug-Free ADD/ADHD Parenting Program
David B., Ph.D. Stein
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Since 1999, parents and teachers have relied on Dr. David Stein's groundbreaking book Ritalin Is Not the Answer as a resource to help them work with hyperactive children who have been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder (ADD) or attention deficit with hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Now the same principles and tools of the acclaimed Caregivers' Skill Program that Dr. Stein outlined in Ritalin Is Not the Answer are present in this easy-to-use companion workbook. Filled with self-tests, specific step-by-step guidelines, checklists, and exercises, Ritalin Is Not the Answer Action Guide offers a healthy, comprehensive behavioral program that has been proven to work!

Customer Reviews:

Talk about transformation!.......2004-11-06

Do you want to be blown away by the straight-forward truth. Our child was out of control, dominating every situation we were in - it was all about him and his inability to see others. Inattentive, can't focus, getting F's in school, only because ....(the list is endless), this book lays out how to get your child on the right tract so he/she can be a contributer to society and not take from everyone.

This book spells out what our Grandparents knew and could not tell us. No more drugs, no more psycologist office visits, no more check lists and prizes, no more manipulation and bargaining; 'let your yes be a yes! and your no be a no!'
This book teaches us parents how to use gentle, firm, consistent tones so anxiety is not produced in these children.
This book talks about the way some children receive information; what are we doing as parents???? This book is not for cowards. If you are a parent who is easily influenced, this book is not for you, it is a wake up call to how we as parents parent.

Our child just received his report card...I want to cry because I am so greatful for the transformation. He received almost all A's and some B's. He can now actually draw a picture with detail. Before he would scrible on an assignment and say, "I'm done." I follow Dr. Stein's recommendations and have found peace. Our son's brothers and sister now have a friend and not a bully for a brother. It is truly amazing.

common sense for adhd.......2003-11-06

I am the mother of Ben, who has had lots of labels...Adhd, Autism, PDD, brat. Somehow he has made it through to the fourth grade and basically is a bright kid.

Ben was languaged delayed and might not have made it in the regular classroom without ritalin because he was just out of control and I was clueless as to how to change. In earlier days, we literally had to "show" Ben how to talk, with pictures... he had to "see" it to understand it, as he didn't pick up language as most kids do. He was different from the beginning!!!

He is the most frustrating, and the most enjoyable of kids I have ever had the pleasure to love. But when it came to correction, I just believed I would have to spend the rest of my life ignoring his oppositionality. It was like I had no control...and just kept getting more and more frustrated, and giving more and more negative vibes off because I was just at my wits end. I don't like the idea of spanking or yelling at all, and it always just seemed to make matters worse. Ben took no responsibility for his behavior.

When I came across this book initially I ignored it because it was that crazy "anti-ritalin" crowd, or so I thought. You know, the "zealots". After having read it and applied it somewhat, I wonder if Dr. Stein hasn't serendipitously (sp?) come across a way to help our kids behave, in the same way Catherine Maurice's book helped provide me with a way to teach Ben language!! Hey, we're on this earth to help each other out!

I really do believe Ben has a difference that makes it hard to deal with some aspects of schooling. I don't recall anywhere in this book Dr. Stein saying that it's easy. But if I only give in and say, "He can't do it, he's handicapped..." am I really helping him? It isn't a matter of ritalin or not...what this book forces you to think about is how we as parents unfortunately handicap our children by having such low expectations of them.

How can a form of discipline that includes no yelling or spanking, no belittlement; that encourages positive behavior and encourages thinking of the consequences of actions beforehand; that requires us as parents to refuse to see our children as handicapped and to enrich their lives and show them unconditional love, be bad?

Got me....

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Skip the drugs and the psychiatrist. Read this book first!.......2002-12-28

Did you know that there is no scientific test for the presence of ADD/ADHD? According to Dr. Stein that's because ADD/ADHD is NOT the epidemic biological/chemical/genetic/dietary disease that today's popular medicine would have us believe. It's what grade schools used to call poor conduct, and it can be corrected with a two-pronged, drug-free approach: increase praise to reward good conduct and use boredom--what I refer to as "Time Out on Steroids"--to correct bad conduct. The book includes a simple, well-reasoned explanation of what Dr. Stein believes causes kids to be inattentive (IA) and highly misbehaving (HM). More importantly for parents like me it includes a detailed, step by step, VERY PRACTICAL program for working with an IA/HM child in a broad variety of settings (e.g. at home, at a store, in the car). He calls this the Caregivers Skills Program (CSP).

The key to the CSP is that it helps the child understand that it's to his benefit to think...think about the consequences of his actions, think about the rules, think about the feelings of others, etc. This book is surprisingly short for the importance of its subject, reads very quickly, is down to earth and to-the-point. Dr. Stein includes just the right amount of the theories behind the CSP so parents can build on the specifics in the CSP to handle other situations not specifically covered by the book.

If you're considering resorting to drugs or professional counseling to try and help a child you suspect might be ADD/ADHD, you owe it to the child and yourself to read this book first.

The Asthma and Allergy Action Plan for Kids: A Complete Program to Help Your Child Live a Full and Active Life
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Best Book on Asthma and Allergies!

Fabulous book on asthma and allergies in kids

The Asthma and Allergy Action Plan for Kids: A Complete Program to Help Your Child Live a Full and Active Life
Allen Dozor , and Kate Kelly
Manufacturer: Fireside
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ASIN: 0743235770

Book Description

Statistics show that up to 40 percent of children in the United States suffer from allergies and at least 10 percent suffer from asthma. That translates into almost five million American children affected by both allergies and asthma. And as Dr. Allen J. Dozor, head of one of the largest pediatric pulmonary practices in the United States, has seen among his patients, some of the most upsetting effects of allergies and asthma are the psychological wounds inflicted on a child's self-image. There is the constant protectiveness from caregivers, confusing limits and rules, headaches, obesity, shortness of breath, and sleep deprivation. In some cases these side effects, such as stress and obesity, cycle back to make the original condition worse.

Dr. Dozor's plan, developed over the last twenty years, is designed to empower both parents and children. His warmhearted but reality-based approach includes

How to give the right amount of medication for best effects and no side effects
Empowering your children to manage their own condition so that they can feel safe and secure
Prevention and management in school
Handling emergencies

And much more!

Customer Reviews:

Best Book on Asthma and Allergies!.......2004-04-02

I don't usually buy books about health inssues, but we've been struggling with my daughter. She has allergies and asthma and I am so afraid of the medicines and my doctors never seem to have enough time for me. This book has been a godsend! Dr. Dozor really seems to know what he is talking about. I wish he was near me. If you have children with allergies or asthma, you have to buy this book.

Fabulous book on asthma and allergies in kids.......2004-03-13

If your child suffers from asthma or allergies, you have to get this book! Practical, concise, funny, I learned something in every chapter. At last a book I can use, easy to read, full of warm and friendly advice. I loved this book.

Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School

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Overcoming Underachieving: An Action Guide to Helping Your Child Succeed in School
Sam Goldstein , and Nancy Mather
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Help your child succeed!

If your child is falling behind in school, you know what heartache is —watching the struggle, feeling the frustration, yearning to help —but what can you do?

You can do a lot! In Overcoming Underachieving two nationally recognized experts in children's school problems show you how to become your child's advocate, coach, and guide through the educational process. Using numerous case examples, they help you pinpoint your child's unique learning patterns and the problems that interfere with learning, behavior, and achievement.

This information-packed book provides dozens of creative, parent-tested tools to help your child overcome difficulties with reading, math, handwriting, study skills, memorization, attention span, and many other problems that affect school success. With the help of Overcoming Underachieving, you can:

Learn proven methods of assessing your child's patterns of learning and behaving
Describe learning and behavior problems clearly to teachers and other educators
Develop strategies that use strengths to overcome weaknesses
Set goals your child really can achieve
Find out how to improve your child's behavior and self-esteem

Emotional support is important, but you can give your son or daughter even more. Find out how in Overcoming Underachieving.

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Intelligent, useful, compassionate and wise.......1999-12-18

Mather and Goldstein's book is a wonderful find for parents whose child is having a reading, writing, behavioral, or school problem. They simplify an often frustrating and confusing situation by asking ten clear and simple questions which are then used to identify what to do. We found the specific recommendations of how and what to do very useful. Chapter 8&9 had very concrete and straightforward "language" things to do that made us feel like we were not just spinning our wheels anymore. This book was recommended by our elementary school after our son was tested. I would recommend this book for people as they begin testing to help explain what is going on and what they can and must do. Thanks Nancy & Sam for clarifying the process and making it easier to be an advocate for my child.

An Exceptional Resource.......1999-12-12

Finally a text that not only helps parents understand the forces that shape success or failure at school, but offers a set of practical guidelines and strategies to help all children succeed.

Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action (Africa Region Human Development Series)

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Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans: A Framework for Public Action (Africa Region Human Development Series)
K. Subbarao , and Diane Coury
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Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerabilities faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors. It brings together the admittedly limited evidence from interventions on behalf of orphans with a view to advancing our knowledge on what works and what does not in mitigating the risks faced by orphans and enhancing capacities of communities to address this problem. Juxtaposing the risks and needs of orphans against the effectiveness (including cost-effectiveness) of care-giving arrangements, the study addresses issues bearing on how to scale up the more promising of interventions.

The authors draw several important conclusions on the strengths and weaknesses of various programs, targeting methods and their implications, and in particular highlight the gaps in our knowledge with respect to the cost-effectiveness of interventions and the potential incentive effects of orphan care. Considering that resources are limited and the problem is immense, the study rightly underscores the need for coordination of efforts among all agencies seeking to respond to the crisis.

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HIV/AIDS is generating a major humanitarian crisis for families in Sub-Saharan Africa. The number of children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS is expected to rise to 35 million by 2010. Rolling back decades of progress in social development, HIV/AIDS has become a major constraint in the fight against poverty. Many African countries are also suffering from civil unrest and post-conflict situations resulting in more orphans and/or displaced children. Reaching Out to Africa's Orphans makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of the many risks and vulnerabilities faced by orphans and the ameliorating role played by the actions of governments and donors. It brings together the admittedly limited evidence from interventions on behalf of orphans with a view to advancing our knowledge on what works and what does not in mitigating the risks faced by orphans and enhancing capacities of communities to address this problem. Juxtaposing the risks and needs of orphans against the effectiveness (including cost-effectiveness) of care-giving arrangements, the study addresses issues bearing on how to scale up the more promising of interventions. The authors draw several important conclusions on the strengths and weaknesses of various programs, targeting methods and their implications, and in particular highlight the gaps in our knowledge with respect to the cost-effectiveness of interventions and the potential incentive effects of orphan care. Considering that resources are limited and the problem is immense, the study rightly underscores the need for coordination of efforts among all agencies seeking to respond to the crisis.

No More Misbehavin: 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them

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No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them
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Not useful for our child
Basic Knowledge For Parents

No More Misbehavin: 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them
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These focused, practical solutions to the 38 biggest problems are literally just what the doctor ordered for busy, harassed parents all over the world!With No More Misbehavin', Dr. Borba has concentrated her wisdom, experience and skills as a teacher into an extraordinarily effective guide that will become the ultimate resource and constant companion for parents of children ages three to twelve.

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Disappointing, fails to live up to title's promise.......2007-06-08

This is a simplistic parenting overview -- not a series of solutions for a child's most difficult behaviors. The traits included are very significant and deserve serious treatment, not matter-of-fact tips that can be found in any parenting magazine which is what the book contains.
For example, the chapter on bossiness - a complex and serious negative behavior trait - gives three overly simplistic tips and then asks the parent to consider a series of questions about why the trait is bothersome. It does a very poor job of explaining the root of bossiness and gives overly simplistic advice, like "raise the child's self-esteem." If I knew how to do that, I wouldn't have had to buy the book!
Try another resource. This one won't help.

No More Misbehavin': 38 Difficult Behaviors and How to Stop Them.......2007-01-14

This book was not very good. It doesn't give enough solutions to behavior problems.

BUY IT! BUY IT! BUY IT NOW!.......2005-12-17

If you are having problems finding the words or techniques to lovingly and effectively correct your children this IS the book for you.

I became the instant (step)parent of two boys 7 and 9 who are for the most part great children, but at times need to be disciplined. I was at a loss at to how to approach the problem, but this book has given me clear and direct tools to become an effective parent.

Not useful for our child.......2005-07-06

The title was rather seductive ... but I was disappointed, if validated. I am by no means mom of the year, but I think I already follow most of what the book suggests. This book is likely good for parents who are gobsmacked by newly emerged bad behaviors and recalcitrance, but those of us who have spent any time with the "Spririted," "Explosive" and "Active/Alert" child books will have seen/implemented most of the recommendations already.

Basic Knowledge For Parents .......2004-10-19

This book was just okay, it has a few good points but most of it was common knowledge if you are in touch with your children and how to manage their behavior...great book to get from the libray, not one to purchase.

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