Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation

Author: Elizabeth Beckwith
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061939684
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
A hysterically tongue-in-cheek, parody parenting guide by “a wonder writer and an expressive, hilarious comedian” (Zack Galifianakis). Raising the Perfect Child Through Guilt and Manipulation is not one of those traditional, all-too-earnest parenting guides that, for generations, have sucked all the fun out of child rearing. The foundation of Elizabeth Beckwith’s Guilt and Manipulation family philosophy is simple: We do things a certain way, and everyone else is an a**hole. Is that something you should put on a bumper sticker and slap on your minivan? Of course not—that would be trashy. But in the privacy of your own home, you can employ these essential components of Guilt and Manipulation to mold the little runts ruthlessly yet effectively into children you won't be embarrassed to admit are yours: Creating a Team: “Us” vs. “Them” How to Scare the Crap Out of Your Child (in a Positive Way) Don’t Be Afraid to Raise a Nerd Mind Control: Why It’s a Good Thing

God's Perfect Child

Author: Caroline Fraser
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250207274
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Christian Scientist Caroline Fraser comes the first unvarnished account of one of America's most controversial and little-understood religious movements. Millions of Americans – from Lady Astor to Ginger Rogers to Watergate conspirator H. R. Haldeman – have been touched by the Church of Christ, Scientist. Founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879, Christian Science was based on a belief that intense contemplation of the perfection of God can heal all ills – an extreme expression of the American faith in self-reliance. In this unflinching investigation, Caroline Fraser, herself raised in a Scientist household, shows how the Church transformed itself from a small, eccentric sect into a politically powerful and socially respectable religion, and explores the human cost of Christian Science's remarkable rise. Fraser examines the strange life and psychology of Mary Baker Eddy, who lived in dread of a kind of witchcraft she called Malicious Animal Magnetism. She takes us into the closed world of Eddy's followers, who refuse to acknowledge the existence of illness and death and reject modern medicine, even at the cost of their children's lives. She reveals just how Christian Science managed to gain extraordinary legal and Congressional sanction for its dubious practices and tracks its enormous influence on new-age beliefs and other modern healing cults. A passionate exposé of zealotry, God's Perfect Child tells one of the most dramatic and little-known stories in American religious history.

The Dream of the Perfect Child

Author: Joan Rothschild
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345653
Category : Abnormalities, Human
Languages : en
Pages : 358

Book Description
A feminist critique of bioethics and attitudes toward reproductive technologies.

Shut Up About. . .Your Perfect Kid!

Author:
Publisher: Shut Up About. . .
ISBN: 9780979071300
Category : Asperger's syndrome
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Less Than Perfect Child

Author: David C. Bardsley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983544609
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Growing up with a behavioral or learning disorder is never easy; not for the parents, not for the teachers, and especially not for the affected child. The past 15 years have seen an unprecedented explosion in the diagnosis of ADHD, Autism, Tourette's, Asperger's, Defient Behavior. Many of those affected are now reaching adulthood. What will their future be? While growing up in the trenches of disfunctionality, the author was institutionalized at age 8 and diagnosed as mentally retarded: a diagnosis his parents refused to accept. This story of hope and transformation will inspire and encourage the millions of troubled parents who worry about what the future holds for their "Less Than Perfect Child" and help those adults who have never been diagnosed, yet struggle daily with behavioral and learning disorders.

How to Ruin the Perfect Child

Author: Antonio Le Mons
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059512870X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
What can happen when successful, well-respected people come face-to-face with themselves is mind boggling! Twins Maximillian and Montgomery Hamilton are born into wealth, power, and all the expectations that go with being heir to influence and money. After a rebellious Montgomery defects for an "alternative" lifestyle, Aprielle, the powerful, no- nonsense cosmetic giant, is more determined than ever to groom Maximillian, her remaining son, to successfully carry on the Hamilton legacy. Maximillian's eventual rebellion affects both him and the Hamilton family in an unexpected and devastating way.

Daddyman

Author: Craig Balcomb
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1664134271
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 88

Book Description
Faster than a speeding tricycle, More powerful than dirty diapers, Able to leap tall Legos in a single bound. Look up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Daddyman! Yes, Daddyman, Strange visitor from another dimension, With powers and abilities far beyond those of ordinary men. Daddyman, Who can change a pair of dirty diapers, Bend Play-Doh with his bare hands, And who, disguised as a mild-mannered father in a great metropolitan city, Fights a never ending battle for Truth, Justice, and Clean Underwear. Daddyman is your guide to becoming a good dad. It dosen't deal with problems like diaper rash to teething pain. Rather, it is a parenting philosophy with examples from the author's own personal experience. Daddyman is written specifically for men, who often often don't have a good role model and who sometimes feel left out of parenting discussions dominated by women and presented from a mother's perspective. Every man can be a good dad, if he chooses to be. Love, caring, support and encouragement are the cornerstones of good parenting. Hopefully, this book will put you in the frame of mind you need to be a better dad.

The Perfect Baby

Author: Glenn McGee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eugenics
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
The Perfect Baby is the most popular introduction to ethical issues in genetics. This new edition has been updated to discuss and debate advances in high tech reproduction, genetic testing, gene therapy, human cloning, and stem cell research. It includes a new epilogue, by cloning pioneer Ian Wilmut and Glenn McGee.

Your Angry Child

Author: Daniel L Davis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135415943
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 135

Book Description
Discover an important source of practical and understandable advice for parents of children with anger management issues! Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents was created to provide parents of angry children and teenagers with an up-to-date understanding of the “whys” and “hows” of anger problems. You’ll find specific, focused ways of helping angry children and managing the difficulties that anger causes—some brand new, some time-tested. Written by a psychologist with over 30 years of experience treating troubled and severely behaviorally disordered youth and 20 years experience as a forensic psychologist, this book provides practical and understandable advice that parents can make use of immediately. This insightful book presents up-to-date case histories, current research, and practical, down-to-earth techniques that can help parents of children and adolescents with anger problems. Extraordinarily useful for parents, this book is also an ideal adjunct to counseling and psychotherapy and an essential reference for teachers, pediatricians and family practice physicians, students of psychology, corrections officers, and others who work with angry/violent youth. The first chapters of Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents provide a thoughtful introduction to child development concepts and the development of anger, examining how hostility and aggression impact the family and illustrating the effects of resistance and oppositional behavior. Next, the book focuses specifically on practical aspects of anger management, including: attachment issues antisocial behavior anger’s impact on temperament, development, moral reasoning, and the thinking process in general indicators of anger problems, such as temper tantrums, cruelty to animals, and fire setting the effect of the media on violent tendencies in children ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and other conduct disorders mood disorders, including suicidal feelings and depression links between anger and substance abuse problem solving the power of strong values and positive role models for angry youth and much more! With chapters specifically devoted to the anger problems of children and pre-teenagers as well as advice directed toward parents of angry adolescents, Your Angry Child: A Guide for Parents is an ideal resource for helping professionals and the parents who come to them in varying degrees of desperation. Make this vital book a part of your therapeutic arsenal today!

Baakisimba

Author: Sylvia Antonia Nannyonga-Tamusuza
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456526
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Originally a royal court dance, baakisimba asserted the authority of the king as the head of Baganda society. After the abolition of kingship in 1967, baakisimba dance began to be performed in other contexts, with women sometimes playing the accompanying drums-traditionally a man's role-and with men occasionally performing the dance.Sylivia Nannyonga-Tamusuza argues that the music and dance of the Baganda people are not simply reflective of culture; baakisimba participates in the construction of social relations, and helps determine how these relations shape the performing arts. Integrating a study of foregrounds the conceptualization of gender as a time-specific cultural phenomenon. Illuminating the complex relationship between baakisimba and Baganda culture, this path breaking volume bridges the gaps in previous scholarship that integrates music and dance in ethnomusicological scholarship.