A collection of four delightful tales of adventure and fun teach children important lessons and traits. Squiggly the Spider learns perseverance and gratitude. Two little cave boys show kindness by helping a sick dinosaur friend and others while on their journey for a cure. Scarlett realizes the impact of developing and sharing talents, and our dogs help us to recognize the many faces of love. Stories by Grammygirl with their unique illustrations and...

Fruits are the sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food...

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.

Family Studies is a key area of policy, professional and personal debate. Perhaps precisely because of this, teaching texts have struggled with how to approach this area, which is both 'familiar' and also contentious and value laden. This innovative and reflective book deals with such dilemmas head-on, through its focus on family meanings in diverse contexts in order to enhance our understanding of everyday social lives and professional practices....

They are the abandoned ones, the forgotten ones, the voiceless ones. Cruelly abandoned at an early age of by parents who otherwise unable, unqualified, or unwilling to care for them, the children who face life as wards of the state need our help. Too many will never know the true meaning of the word home, as they are shifted from one foster home to the next. Too many will never have a feeling of security or self-worth. But it doesn't have to be that...

Children and young people in the early twenty-first century encounter, and creatively adapt to, a range of cultural phenomena in an increasingly mediated, commercialised and globalised world. Children and young people's cultural worlds offers a critical introduction to childhood in the digital age. Childhood innocence is a concept that often underpins the way adults think about children and new technologies. The book challenges adult concerns, highlighting...

In this provocative history of parenting, Harry Hendrick analyses the social and economic reasons behind parenting trends. He 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. The book charts the shift from the liberal and progressive parenting styles of the 1940s70s, to the more 'behavioural', punitive...

Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences is an informational vault of deeply personal tales and essential information, focusing on the lives, questions, and concerns of parents and children living in a childhood obesity crisis. Unlike most books about weight, however, Fat Kids is not a dieting or weight loss how-to; it instead explores the true human experiences and often untold science outside the current political positioning on children and weight. This...

"The Dishonest Machine" takes you on a multifaceted quest to clarify many of today's concerns about raising new age children. William C. Augustine was born, the son of a sharecropper, in the small town of Marksville, Louisiana on September 17, 1961. He is a Southerner and his passion is rooted in the South where most people would tell you, is God's country.

The general well-being of British adolescents has been the topic of considerable debate in recent years, but too often this is based on myth rather than fact. Are today's young people more stressed, anxious, distressed or antisocial than they used to be? What does research evidence tell us about the adolescent experience today and how it has changed over time? And how do trends in adolescent well-being since the 1970s relate to changes in education,...