Posts Tagged Children

Girls on the Edge: The Four Factors Driving the New Crisis for Girls-Sexual Identity, the Cyberbubble, Obsessions, Environmental Toxins – Leonard Sax

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Surprising conclusion at the end of the book: teenage girls need first of all some spiritual development.

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The Greengage Summer – Rumer Godden

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Story about children in foreign country without adults’ supervision.

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Your Child’s Strengths: Discover Them, Develop Them, Use Them – Jenifer Fox

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It is time to build on children’s strengths, instead of constantly eliminating weaknesses.

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Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men – Leonard Sax

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Video games keep boys in the virtual world; less practical and more abstract school teaching made learning unattractive; ADHD drugs changes the brains ares responsible for motivation; environmental estrogens from PET bottles might modify various functions of the boys’ organisms; male role model radically changed.

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