Peer Power seeks to explode existing myths about children's friendships, power and popularity, and the gender chasm between elementary school boys and girls. Based on eight years of intensive insider participant observation in their own children's community, Peter and Patti Adler discuss the vital components of the lives of preadolescents, popularity, friendships, cliques, social status, social isolation, loyalty, bullying, boy-girl relationships, and afterschool activities. They describe how fr...
The Adventures of Arnold A. Airplane (Adventures of Arnold A. Airplane, #10)
by Bill Slentz
Peer pressure can take many forms including making hurtful comments, influencing others to buy material items, or pressuring them to behave in a certain way or engage in a certain activity. Bullying is different from peer pressure because there is a direct threat of physical or emotional harm for not doing something, which is repeated over time by the same person. With an emphasis on situations that are common among teens, "Living with Peer Pressure and Bullying" examines the nature of these two...
Mary Renck Jalongo Interpersonal relationships present an interesting paradox to the young child. Although human bonds are a source of love, security and joy, they are, at the same time, the context in which children feel intense and complicated emotions such as jealousy, shame, resentment, sorrow, and rage. To illustrate, consider a series of incidents in the life of a young child named Melissa. All of these events were so memorable that they became oft-repeated family stories. At age 4, after...
Examines different kinds of peer pressure and gives clues to parents on how to recognize them. Also assures children that being independent and assertive will not cause them to lose friends.
I Work Well With Others When They Leave Me Alone
by Brushstrokes Notebooks
Pediatricians and other health care professionals will find this text to be an invaluable resource for all health care professionals. While some progress has been made in recent years, substance abuse among children, adolescents, and expectant mothers continues to be a major problem in the United States. Pediatricians and other health care professionals will find this newly updated text to be an invaluable resource for identifying, assessing, treating, referring, and helping prevent substance ab...
Losing weight has become the modern woman's holy grail... everything will be better when we're thin. We're obsessed with weight, we dislike our bodies, we worry about the food we eat, we feel guilty, we diet... Too many of us are locked into a war with our own bodies which we'll never win, and which will never make us happy. The Ministry of Thin takes a controversial, unflinching look at how the modern obsession with weight loss, youth, beauty and perfection got out of control. Emma Woolf...
Journal Your Life's Journey
by Blank Book Billionaire and Journal Your Life's Journey