by Mary Elizabeth Jones ‧ RELEASE DATE: Dec. 19, 2012
An engaging, practical guide for parents.
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Jones’ debut guidebook on parenting offers an insightful, empowering and resourceful look at what it means to make it as a single parent.
As a single mother herself, Jones doesn’t focus on preconceived negative connotations of single parenthood, but instead provides positive support and guidance. The slim book, just 40 pages long, provides a valuable list of resources available to single parents, including a list of jobs that parents can do from home and that allow for a flexible schedule; instructions on how to apply for education-related funding; health care tips for those not eligible for government-funded health insurance; and housing advice, including how to find homeowning opportunities. She lists specific examples of how parents can increase their income using traditional job-hunting skills and suggests relieving stress by using methods ranging from meditation to masturbation. Throughout, Jones urges single parents to use creativity when confronting personal, professional or domestic challenges, and she encourages them to meditate on a positive future and take the steps necessary to make those dreams reality. The author adopts a tone that’s thoughtful and empathetic but never maudlin. In one chapter, she suggests that the reader visualize a healthier, happier and more productive self: “The goal here is seeking change in each routine or methods of living that you want to shift toward, rather than aspects of life that you want to prevent or give up.” At times, the advice is a bit idealistic—for example, she promises that, “If you can write an article, type a form or letter, research a topic such as the ‘healthiest foods to eat in America,’ then you can succeed with freelancing.” However, the book’s focus on positive thinking and resourcefulness offers readers a welcome perspective on single parenthood.
An engaging, practical guide for parents.Pub Date: Dec. 19, 2012
ISBN: 978-1479352074
Page Count: 92
Publisher: CreateSpace
Review Posted Online: March 5, 2013
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2013
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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by Charlayne Hunter-Gault ‧ RELEASE DATE: Nov. 1, 1992
From the national correspondent for PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour: a moving memoir of her youth in the Deep South and her role in desegregating the Univ. of Georgia. The eldest daughter of an army chaplain, Hunter-Gault was born in what she calls the ``first of many places that I would call `my place' ''—the small village of Due West, tucked away in a remote little corner of South Carolina. While her father served in Korea, Hunter-Gault and her mother moved first to Covington, Georgia, and then to Atlanta. In ``L.A.'' (lovely Atlanta), surrounded by her loving family and a close-knit black community, the author enjoyed a happy childhood participating in activities at church and at school, where her intellectual and leadership abilities soon were noticed by both faculty and peers. In high school, Hunter-Gault found herself studying the ``comic-strip character Brenda Starr as I might have studied a journalism textbook, had there been one.'' Determined to be a journalist, she applied to several colleges—all outside of Georgia, for ``to discourage the possibility that a black student would even think of applying to one of those white schools, the state provided money for black students'' to study out of state. Accepted at Michigan's Wayne State, the author was encouraged by local civil-rights leaders to apply, along with another classmate, to the Univ. of Georgia as well. Her application became a test of changing racial attitudes, as well as of the growing strength of the civil-rights movement in the South, and Gault became a national figure as she braved an onslaught of hostilities and harassment to become the first black woman to attend the university. A remarkably generous, fair-minded account of overcoming some of the biggest, and most intractable, obstacles ever deployed by southern racists. (Photographs—not seen.)
Pub Date: Nov. 1, 1992
ISBN: 0-374-17563-2
Page Count: 192
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1992
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by William Strunk & E.B. White ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 1972
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis...
Privately published by Strunk of Cornell in 1918 and revised by his student E. B. White in 1959, that "little book" is back again with more White updatings.
Stricter than, say, Bergen Evans or W3 ("disinterested" means impartial — period), Strunk is in the last analysis (whoops — "A bankrupt expression") a unique guide (which means "without like or equal").Pub Date: May 15, 1972
ISBN: 0205632645
Page Count: 105
Publisher: Macmillan
Review Posted Online: Oct. 28, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1972
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