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In The Drama of Reality Television: Lives of Youth in Liquid Modern Times, the author offers a glimpse into the lives, viewing habits, and opinions of today's Generation Z. While reality television is quite often viewed as just a guilty pleasure, the conversations that the author had with young people show that reality television is a major pedagogical force in the lives of young viewers. This is compounded by our current liquid modern time period; a time in which everything is fluid, there...

Children make developmental leaps during the preschool years. This three-pack of Understanding Preschoolers workbooks provides essential information to help early childhood caregivers and educators enhance their role in promoting growth by better understanding preschoolers' development. Practical tips, self-assessments, exercises, and reflection questions are included.

It's a familiar scenario: your child pleads to have a dog, promises to look after it and once the novelty has worn off leaves all the daily care and training to you. This practical, accessible book shows you how to involve children in training, raising and caring for their dogs. Step-by-step advice on teaching your child to train his dog, including the best ways to involve kids in the day-to-day care and all the nasty bits. With down-to-earth advice on answering difficult questions, this book of...

Discover the power of being imperfectly present with your children, helping them develop mental, emotional, and spiritual resilience that will sustain them for a lifetime. Like most parents, Amy and Jeffrey Olrick left the hospital with their first child desperate to know, "What do we do?" But years of parenting three kids and Jeffrey's work as a child psychologist convinced them to ask a better question: "How shall I be with this new person?" In a culture obsessed with parenting formulas, it'...