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The Best Things Parents Do

Ideas & Insights from Real-World Parents

By: Susan Isaacs Kohl

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The Best Things Parents Do

Ideas & Insights from Real-World Parents

By: Susan Isaacs Kohl

A best-practices guide to parenting: “Kohl’s words kiss instead of chide, support rather than divide . . . luminously reveals the wise parent in us all.” —Lisa Groen Braner, author of The Mother’s Book of Well-Being Parents are doing a better job than they think they are. Author Susan Kohl has been a parent watcher for more than thirty years, and she knows what parents do well. Whether you’re experiencing the first steps of motherhood or fatherhood or simply looking for some compassionate support and problem-solving in your child-rearing adventures, you’ll find tips here on how to raise your child the best way possible. Kohl uses her personal experiences as a preschool director and teacher and includes relevant statistics, psychological truths, and proven strategies to construct positive behavior and discourage negative behavior, with chapters on:The Best Attitudes Parents HoldThe Best Things Parents DoThe Best Things Parents Do for ThemselvesThe Best Things Parents Do for Each Other

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Mango Media Inc.

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1609257391

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The Best Things Parents Do

Ideas & Insights from Real-World Parents

By: Susan Isaacs Kohl

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Ideas & Insights from Real-World Parents

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Keep Susan Kohl's New Book Someplace Handy -- you'll want to refer to it again and again. More than 40 brief essays help us remember what's really important. Each piece concludes with a few questions or an idea to help you articulate the best things you do, so you can do more of them. Kohl also gently reminds us to notice times when things aren't going well, when we're questioning ourselves, and helps us build our resources for dealing with problems on a daily basis. She offers simple things you can do for yourself and your children -- make a list of what worked, remember your own childhood, write your children a letter for the future. The topic index lets you easily find information on specific issues. Book jacket.

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Conari Press

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1573249025

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9781573249027

Brave Dames and Wimpettes

What Women are Really Doing on Page and Screen

By: Susan Isaacs

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Brave Dames and Wimpettes

What Women are Really Doing on Page and Screen

By: Susan Isaacs

Why are Jane Eyre, Marge Simpson, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer "brave dames"? What makes Ally McBeal, Madame Bovary, and the good wife Beth from Fatal Attraction "wimpettes"? In this thoroughly witty, incisive look at the role of women on screen and page, Susan Isaacs argues that assertive, ethical women characters are losing ground to wounded, shallow sisters who are driven by what she calls the articles of wimpette philosophy. (Article Eight: A wimpette looks to a man to give her an identity.) Although female roles today include lawyers like Ally McBeal and CEOs like Ronnie of Veronica's Closet, they are wimpettes nonetheless. A brave dame, on the other hand, is a dignified, three-dimensional hero who may care about men, home, and hearth, but also cares--and acts--passionately about something in the world beyond. Brave dames' stories range from mundane (Mary Richards in The Mary Tyler Moore Show) to romantic (Francesca in The Horse Whisperer) to fantastic (Xena: Warrior Princess), but whatever they do, they care about justice and carry themselves with self-respect and decency. For a Really Brave Dame, think Frances McDormand as the tenacious, pregnant police chief in Fargo. Isaacs's unmistakable love of fiction and film shines through even her most scathing wimpette assessments. In the end, she urges us to become "more thoughtful critics." The artist, she says, has the right to create whatever he or she pleases--and we have the right "to applaud or to yell, 'Hey, this stinks!'" If we do so, not only will fiction be improved, but so too might real life.

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