A Natural History Of Parenting
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A Natural History Of Parenting
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Author : Susan Allport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997-02-25
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"We humans parent our young longer than any other animal on earth. For us, parenting is such an essential part of reproduction that we tend to think of parenting as an essential part of all reproduction. . . . Most creatures living on the earth today do not bother with such things at all. Beyond producing good-sized eggs and finding, perhaps, a suitable spot to lay them, most animal parents never give their young any kind of care. They never even see their young. And were they to see them, they would be much more inclined to eat them than to offer them food, protection, or guidance." In A Natural History of Parenting, Susan Allport, a naturalist and science writer, explores the exciting and often startling dynamics of maternal and paternal behavior among the species. When one of the ewes Allport was raising refused to mother her new lamb, she was forced to reconsider many of her preconceptions about the world of parenting. She began to explore the roots of parental instincts across the broad spectrum of the animal kingdoms. In A Natural History of Parenting, she examines the awesome diversity of nature to reveal what we share with insects, birds, and other animals, and, just as important, how we differ from them. Allport's study takes the reader from caves in Texas filled with twenty million bats to huge tanks of beluga whales at the New York Aquarium, from the icy reaches of East Greenland where Arctic wolves raise their young to ant nests where huge labor pools have led to primitive infant care. Along the way, she gathers research on myriad creatures--beavers and wasps, birds and elephants, frogs and humans--to show us a magnificent variety of parental behavior amongspecies, from a male emperor penguin forgoing nourishment to spend weeks protecting an egg balanced on the top of his feet to the manifestations of the human female's "nesting instinct. Susan Allport is the best kind of science writer--knowledgeable, inquisitive, and entertaining. This invaluable book will ensure that you never again think in the same way of how and why we nurture our young. "Susan Allport tackles a complex subject head on with penetrating analysis. Her acute observations, introspection, and logical conclusions capture the essence of the whole spectrum of understanding parenting, and make major contributions to the delicate art of rearing children. Allport has given parenting a fresh and exciting direction. The next century will need just such courageous and responsive attention to the underpinnings of the human society." --Kenneth A. Chambers, zoologist at the American Museum of Natural History and author of A Country Lover's Guide to Wildlife
A Natural History Of Parenting
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Author : Susan Allport
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A Natural History Of Parenting written by Susan Allport and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Animals categories.
Act Natural
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Author : Jennifer Traig
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2019-01-08
Act Natural written by Jennifer Traig and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-08 with Family & Relationships categories.
From a distinctive, inimitable voice, a wickedly funny and fascinating romp through the strange and often contradictory history of Western parenting Why do we read our kids fairy tales about homicidal stepparents? How did helicopter parenting develop if it used to be perfectly socially acceptable to abandon your children? Why do we encourage our babies to crawl if crawling won’t help them learn to walk? These are just some of the questions that came to Jennifer Traig when—exhausted, frazzled, and at sea after the birth of her two children—she began to interrogate the traditional parenting advice she’d been conditioned to accept at face value. The result is Act Natural, hilarious and deft dissection of the history of Western parenting, written with the signature biting wit and deep insights Traig has become known for. Moving from ancient Rome to Puritan New England to the Dr. Spock craze of mid-century America, Traig cheerfully explores historic and present-day parenting techniques ranging from the misguided, to the nonsensical, to the truly horrifying. Be it childbirth, breastfeeding, or the ways in which we teach children how to sleep, walk, eat, and talk, she leaves no stone unturned in her quest for answers: Have our techniques actually evolved into something better? Or are we still just scrambling in the dark?
A Natural History Of Parenting
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Author : Susan Allport
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2016-06-28
A Natural History Of Parenting written by Susan Allport and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-28 with Nature categories.
Anyone who has ever held a baby—or observed a nesting bird—will find much to inform and entertain in this enchantingly written and thoroughly researched book. Allport revels in the marvelous diversity of care in the animal world. She shows us our place in that world with great humor, knowledge, and common sense.
The End Of American Childhood
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Author : Paula S. Fass
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
The End Of American Childhood written by Paula S. Fass and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with History categories.
How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the present The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world. Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant—who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative. Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future.
Anxious Parents
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Author : Peter N. Stearns
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
Anxious Parents written by Peter N. Stearns and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with History categories.
The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities and twentieth-century parents exhibited a new level of anxiety concerning the welfare of their children and their own ability to parent effectively. What caused this shift in the ways parenting and childhood were experienced and perceived? Why, at a time of relative ease and prosperity, do parents continue to grapple with uncertainty and with unreasonable expectations of both themselves and their children? Peter N. Stearns explains this phenomenon by examining the new issues the twentieth century brought to bear on families. Surveying popular media, *“expert” childrearing manuals, and newspapers and journals published throughout the century, Stearns shows how schooling, physical and emotional vulnerability, and the rise in influence of commercialism became primary concerns for parents. The result, Stearns shows, is that contemporary parents have come to believe that they are participating in a culture of neglect and diminishing standards. Anxious Parents: A Modern History of Childrearing in America shows the reasons for this belief through an historic examination of modern parenting.
Narcissistic Parenting In An Insecure World
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Author : Harry Hendrick
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2016-07-06
Narcissistic Parenting In An Insecure World written by Harry Hendrick and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-06 with Family & Relationships categories.
Harry Hendrick shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the social-democratic ideal, and the 'new behaviourism', have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent, In this provocative history of parenting.
Parenting In England 1760 1830
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Author : Joanne Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-05
Parenting In England 1760 1830 written by Joanne Bailey and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-05 with Family & Relationships categories.
The first study of the world of parenting in late Georgian England. Based on extensive and wide-ranging sources from memoirs and correspondence, to fiction, advice guides, and engravings, Bailey uncovers how people, from the poor to the rich, thought about themselves as parents and remembered their own parents.
Parents And Children In History
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Author : David Hunt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Parents And Children In History written by David Hunt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with Children categories.
Rest Play Grow
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Author : Deborah MacNamara
language : en
Publisher: Aona Management Incorporated
Release Date : 2016
Rest Play Grow written by Deborah MacNamara and has been published by Aona Management Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Family & Relationships categories.
Using the relational development approach of Gordon Neufeld, the author offers a road map to making sense of the behavior of young children and understanding their developmental growth.