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Hunt, gather, parent : what ancient cultures can teach us about the lost art of raising happy, helpful little humans / by Doucleff, Michaeleen,author.; Trujillo, Ella,illustrator.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.An NPR Science Desk correspondent challenges the misleading child-rearing practices commonly recommended to parents, outlining alternatives grounded in international ancestral traditions that are being used effectively throughout the modern world.
Subjects: Parenting.; Parenting;
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The Danish way of parenting : what the happiest people in the world know about raising confident, capable kids / by Alexander, Jessica Joelle.; Sandahl, Iben.;
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.Introduction: what's the secret to Danish happiness? -- Recognizing our default settings -- P is for play -- A is for authenticity -- R is for reframing -- E is for empathy -- N is for no ultimatums -- T is for togetherness and hygge -- Where do we go from here?LSC
Subjects: Parenting; Parenting;
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A life like mine / by Rao, Arati.; Rayner, Amanda.; UNICEF.;
Looks at what life is like for children of different countries and how each child can fulfill his or her hopes and ambitions no matter how little or much their human rights are infringed.
Subjects: Children's rights; Children; Children's rights; Children;
© 2006, c2002., DK Pub.,
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Extra time : ten lessons for an ageing world / by Cavendish, Camilla,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Aging; Aging.; Older people; Older people.;
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This is how we do it : one day in the lives of seven kids from around the world / by Lamothe, Matt.;
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Subjects: Children;
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Do parents matter? : why Japanese babies sleep soundly, Mexican siblings don't fight, and American families should just relax / by LeVine, Robert Alan,1932-author.; LeVine, Sarah,1940-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."In some parts of northwestern Nigeria, mothers studiously avoid making eye contact with their babies. Some Chinese parents go out of their way to seek confrontation with their toddlers. Japanese parents almost universally co-sleep with their infants, sometimes continuing to share a bed with them until age ten. Yet all these parents are as likely as Americans to have loving relationships with happy children. If these practices seem bizarre, or their results seem counterintuitive, it's not necessarily because other cultures have discovered the keys to understanding children. It might be more appropriate to say there are no keys-but Americans are driving themselves crazy trying to find them. When we're immersed in news articles and scientific findings proclaiming the importance of some factor or other, we often miss the bigger picture: that parents can only affect their children so much. Robert and Sarah LeVine, married anthropologists at Harvard University, have spent their lives researching parenting across the globe-starting with a trip to visit the Hausa people of Nigeria as newlyweds in 1969. Their decades of original research provide a new window onto the challenges of parenting and the ways that it is shaped by economic, cultural, and familial traditions. Their ability to put our modern struggles into global and historical perspective should calm many a nervous mother or father's nerves. It has become a truism to say that American parents are exhausted and overstressed about the health, intelligence, happiness, and success of their children. But as Robert and Sarah LeVine show, this is all part of our culture. And a look around the world may be just the thing to remind us that there are plenty of other choices to make."--
Subjects: Child development; Child rearing; Ethnopsychology.; Families; Parenting;
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Material world : a global family portrait / by Menzel, Peter,1948-; Mann, Charles C.;
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Subjects: Material culture; Families; Economic development; Material culture; Families;
© c1994., Sierra Club Books,
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Homes around the world / by Moore, Max.; Troup, Roxanne.;
Travel the world to discover all sorts of homes. Make reading your superpower with DK's beautiful, leveled nonfiction. Use your reading superpowers to learn all about how and why people build houses in different places - a high-quality, fun, nonfiction reader - carefully leveled to help children progress. Homes Around the World is a beautifully designed reader all about how the local climate, materials and culture in different parts of the world change how people live.The engaging text has been carefully leveled using Lexiles so that children are set up to succeed. A motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills. Children will love to find out about a seashell house, some movable houses, and homes made of ice, rock and even turf.
Subjects: Readers (Publications); Dwellings; Dwellings;
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The work of the dead : a cultural history of mortal remains / by Laqueur, Thomas Walter.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.LSC
Subjects: Funeral rites and ceremonies; Death;
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Happy New Year! / by Bernhard, Emery; Bernhard, Durga;
Describes the origins of New Year traditions and ways in which the coming of the new year is celebrated around the world.
Subjects: New Year; New Year; Festivals;
© c1996., Lodestar Books,
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