how teachers and parents promote responsibility & learning
Marshall, Marvin
2007
Explains how to achieve discipline without punishments or rewards, discussing reducing stress, motivating, raising responsibility, promoting learning, teaching, and parenting. Also presents the "Raise Responsibility System" for teachers, complete with forms.
Offers parents advice on how to help adolescent girls cope with common problems of puberty, sexuality, body image, food and weight issues, and relationships.
Examines infant development from the perspective of discoveries in neuroscience and developmental psychology, arguing that human emotion and the sense of self originate not in the first year after birth, but in the womb, and looking at what parents can do to help actualize their child's full potential.
Provides practical advice for parents of toddlers and preschoolers, addressing child development, setting expectations, using consequences to change behavior, praise, social skills, time-out, teaching self-control, and other related topics.