In Defense of Childhood
In Defense of Childhood

Author: Chris Mercogliano

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780807032862

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As codirector of the Albany Free School, Chris Mercogliano has had remarkable success in helping a diverse population of youngsters find their way in the world. He regrets, however, that most kids' lives are subject to some form of control from dawn until dusk. Lamenting risk-averse parents, overstructured school days, and a lack of playtime and solitude, Mercogliano argues that we are robbing our young people of "that precious, irreplaceable period in their lives that nature has set aside for exploration and innocent discovery," leaving them ill-equipped to face adulthood. The "domestication of childhood" squeezes the adventure out of kids' lives and threatens to smother the spark that animates each child with talents, dreams, and inclinations. There is plenty that those involved with children can do to protect their spontaneity and exuberance. We can address their desperate thirst for knowledge, give them space to learn from their mistakes, and let them explore what their place in the adult world might be.

No Way to Treat a Child
No Way to Treat a Child

Author: Naomi Schaefer Riley

Publisher: Bombardier Books

Published: 2021-10-05

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1642936588

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Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies

What If Everybody Understood Child Development?
What If Everybody Understood Child Development?

Author: Rae Pica

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1506305156

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Understand the connection between how kids grow and how they learn After 35 years as an education consultant, Rae Pica knows the importance of understanding the natural course of child development. In this collection, she keeps kids front and center as she provides thought-provoking commentary and actionable insights on topics such as the Common Core, the self-esteem movement, and standardized testing. Sure to inspire discussion, this pocket-size powerhouse of educational philosophy includes 29 short essays on topics critical to best practice in child development and education Opinions of experts supported by research and anecdotal evidence Real-life stories shared by teachers and parents References to related articles and interviews with experts

Flood
Flood

Author: Andrew Vachss

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 1998-03-10

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0679781293

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Burke's newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her—so she can kill him with her bare hands. In this cauterizing thriller, Andrew Vachss's renegade investigator teams up with a lethally gifted avenger to follow a child's murderer through the catacombs of New York, where every alley is blind and the penthouses are as dangerous as the basements. Fearfully knowing, crackling with narrative tension, and written in prose as forceful as a hollow-point slug, Flood is Burke at his deadliest—and Vachss at the peak of his form.

Self-Defense for Kids
Self-Defense for Kids

Author: Ursula Escher

Publisher:

Published: 2003-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780971860957

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This is a life-saving book written for children that children understand! Inspired by all the tragic events shown on the news: Innocent children who get abducted and murdered by strangers. It is a fear that all parents feel, and that affects everyone. Grand Master Ho Sik Pak and Ursula Escher have come to the rescue with a life-saving book that is easy for children to understand. The writing is short, simple and direct. The pages are very colourful and children will learn by reading or by simply looking at the pictures. The book teaches children about strangers, important safety tips, martial arts techniques, practical applications and much more. More importantly, the series of Martial Arts self-defence techniques are designed specifically for children, their strengths and weaknesses, and their mentality. Self-defence tips include: How to deal with bullies, what to do when a friend needs help, how to defend against someone your own size or bigger than you, and how to use everyday objects for self-defence. This is a book no family should be without!

Chicken Soup with Rice
Chicken Soup with Rice

Author: Maurice Sendak

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1991-03-15

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 006443253X

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Each month is gay, each season nice, when eating chicken soup with rice./DIV

Strega
Strega

Author: Andrew Vachss

Publisher: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

Published: 1996-01-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0679764097

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Andrew Vachss's implacable private eye has a new client, Strega. She wants Burke to find an obscene photograph—and that search will take him into the ocean that flows just beneath the city, an ocean whose currents are flesh and money, the anguish of children and the pleasure of twisted adults. It is a place that Burke can visit only at the risk of his sanity and his life. But between the power of Strega and his own sense of justice, there is no turning back. In Strega one of our most acclaimed crime writers gives us a thriller that might have been imagined by Dante. For this is a tour of hell with no stops left out, conducted by a novelist who writes with the authority of the damned.

They Took the Kids Last Night
They Took the Kids Last Night

Author: Diane L. Redleaf

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2018-11-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1440866287

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This account of six families whose children were wrongly seized by child protection services vividly illustrates the constitutional balancing act where medicine, family interests, and child safety can clash. They Took the Kids Last Night shows a rarely exposed side of America's contemporary struggle to address child abuse, telling the stories of loving families who were almost destroyed by false allegations—readily accepted by caseworkers, doctors, the media, and, too often, the courts. Each of the six wrongly accused families profiled in this book faced an epic and life-changing battle when child protection caseworkers came to their homes to take their kids. In each case, a child had an injury whose cause was unknown; it could have been due to an accident, a medical condition, or abuse. Each family ultimately exonerated itself and restored its family life, but still bears scars from the experience that will never disappear. The book tells why and how the child protection system failed these families. It also examines the larger flaws in our country's child protection safety net that is supposed to sort out the innocent from the guilty in order to protect children.