A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A warm, funny, irresistible memoir that follows an improbable and life-changing college friendship over the course of forty years—from the best-selling author of The End of Your Life Book Club • “A rare view of male friendship.”—NPR “Moving…salted with Schwalbe’s well-established literary intelligence and a palpable empathy.” —The New York Times Book Review By the time Will Schwalbe was a junior at college, he had already met everyone he cared to know: the...
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...
The Adventures of Arnold A. Airplane (Adventures of Arnold A. Airplane, #10)
by Bill Slentz
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...
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...
Enjoy the Popcorn:Helping Your Child Re-Script the Bully Horror Show
Parents are disturbed and angry that their children have to endure the physical and emotional harm from the bully in their school canteens, classrooms, neighborhoods, and cyberspace. The bully is virtually a fact of life for so many children these days. Parents demand a truly practical book that shows them, step-by-step, the exact skills that they can teach their children to protect themselves from the bully. They realize that their children can never directly change the bully; the best chance o...
