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A comprehensive guide to help dads support their daughters through the preteen and teen years up to adulthood “Communication” with your daughter doesn’t mean having “big” conversations all the time. Creating even the smallest moments of father-daughter connection can build bonds. In Talk with Her, you’ll find information on nineteen topics defining your daughter’s life—including body positivity, romantic relationships, social media, mental health, and academic achievement—along with the communi...

A ground-breaking comparative study of adolescence, Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies examines how biology, culture, and adolescence interact in the rapidly changing Pacific Islands, and question the relationship of social change and adolescent experience.

En este magnífico libro, el doctor David Bueno, biólogo y neuroeducador de prestigio mundial, nos invita, de forma magistral y amena, a descubrir qué sucede en el cerebro de los adolescentes con la intención de conocerlos y entenderlos. A lo largo de estas páginas encontraremos información valiosa que nos ayudará a estimularlos y empoderarlos, a darles ejemplo, a ser respetuosos con sus ritmos de maduración, a apoyarlos emocionalmente cuando lo precisan y, en suma, a entender la adolescencia co...

The standard guide to baby and child care, from physical to moral development, includes new material on nontraditional family structures, ADHD, and children and the media.

The 'Gentler Sex'? Not so, according to Rosalind Wiseman. Girls can be cruel. In her compelling book Queen Bees and Wannabes Wiseman cracks the 'girl code' and explains how girls' friendships are the key to enduring adolescence - as well as the biggest threat to their happiness and well-being. Rosalind Wiseman has spent a decade listening to girls talk about the powerful impact that girl cliques have on what they wear, how they respond to boys and how they feel about themselves. Here, quoting do...

"Kimbrell sings a serious song. . . . The poems are deft and sure, there is a sense of vision in them, and I have the feeling that this is the start of something significant."-from the Foreword by Charles Wright In his debut collection (selected by Charles Wright as the 1997 winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry), Kimbrell revisits the mysterious landscapes of childhood and returns with poems that fathom meaning yet retain a sense of awe. The book's title section, a poignant ten-part...

Parenting by example. Using the simple, powerful message that turned Children Learn What They Live into an international bestseller with over 1.5 million copies in print, Drs. Dorothy Law Nolte and Rachel Harris bring their unique perspective to families with adolescents.Structured, like the first book, around an inspirational poem, Teenagers Learn What They Live addresses the turbulent teenage years, when a stew of hormones, pressures, and temptations makes for such extreme challenges for paren...

Scientific research and science-guided practice based on the promotion of an individual's strengths constitutes a radical shift in a new and growing area of study within the field of human development. Its trademark term is `positive youth development'. This approach to human development is based on the idea that, in addition to preventing problems, science and practice should promote the development of competencies, skills, and motivation in order to enhance individuals' developmental pathways...

Written for anyone caring for children with developmental disabilities, this guide explains how and when to teach sexuality and safe practices and how to broach the subject when the time or opportunity arises.'

This text analyses the role of television in the lives of Argentine adolescents, examining its implications for such issues as political attitudes, personal and social expectations, conduct of daily lives, social knowledge, and beliefs.