THE ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP: How Parents and Childre

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THE ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP: How Parents and Childre

Name: THE ESSENTIAL PARTNERSHIP: How Parents and Childre
Author: Stanley I. Greenspan
ISBN: 670-81279-X

By Stanley I. Greenspan ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 29, 1989

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In First Feelings (1985), pediatrician Greenspan described the stages of a child's emotional development. Here, we get practical advice on building "the essential partnership" between parent and child that fosters that development. Parents are shown how to take specific steps to encourage a child's emotional growth just as they do his or her intellectual growth. The Greenspans suggest that parents create regular, unstructured "floor time" with their children. The goal of these specially setaside times is real engagement—children learning to interact pleasurably with another person, to "connect" on an emotional level, and eventually to speak and to reason about their feelings. The authors discuss mood and self-esteem, sexuality and excitement, anger, separation anxiety, fear, and competitiveness—and use numerous vignettes and sample dialogues to show how their method works with children between infancy and five or six years of age. A refreshing, much-needed guidebook—with clear, friendly explanations designed specifically to the intelligent steering of a process that's too often left largely to chance.

Pub Date: March 29, 1989

ISBN: 670-81279-X

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

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GENERAL FICTION

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THE FIRST IDEA
by Stanley I. Greenspan & Stuart G. Shanker

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by Stanley I. Greenspan & Beryl Lieff Benderly

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THE THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE

by Kristin Hannah ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2004

Heartfelt, yes, but pretty routine.

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Life lessons.

Angie Malone, the youngest of a big, warm Italian-American family, returns to her Pacific Northwest hometown to wrestle with various midlife disappointments: her divorce, Papa’s death, a downturn in business at the family restaurant, and, above all, her childlessness. After several miscarriages, she, a successful ad exec, and husband Conlan, a reporter, befriended a pregnant young girl and planned to adopt her baby—and then the birth mother changed her mind. Angie and Conlan drifted apart and soon found they just didn’t love each other anymore. Metaphorically speaking, “her need for a child had been a high tide, an overwhelming force that drowned them. A year ago, she could have kicked to the surface but not now.” Sadder but wiser, Angie goes to work in the struggling family restaurant, bickering with Mama over updating the menu and replacing the ancient waitress. Soon, Angie befriends another young girl, Lauren Ribido, who’s eager to learn and desperately needs a job. Lauren’s family lives on the wrong side of the tracks, and her mother is a promiscuous alcoholic, but Angie knows nothing of this sad story and welcomes Lauren into the DeSaria family circle. The girl listens in, wide-eyed, as the sisters argue and make wisecracks and—gee-whiz—are actually nice to each other. Nothing at all like her relationship with her sluttish mother, who throws Lauren out when boyfriend David, en route to Stanford, gets her pregnant. Will Lauren, who’s just been accepted to USC, let Angie adopt her baby? Well, a bit of a twist at the end keeps things from becoming too predictable.

Heartfelt, yes, but pretty routine.

Pub Date: July 1, 2004

ISBN: 0-345-46750-7

Page Count: 400

Publisher: Ballantine

Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 15, 2004

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GENERAL FICTION

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THE WOMEN
by Kristin Hannah

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THE FOUR WINDS
by Kristin Hannah

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by Kristin Hannah

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THE SHINING

by Stephen King ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 28, 1976

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A presold prefab blockbuster, what with King's Carrie hitting the moviehouses, Salem's Lot being lensed, The Shining itself sold to Warner Bros. and tapped as a Literary Guild full selection, NAL paperback, etc. (enough activity to demand an afterlife to consummate it all).

The setting is The Overlook, a palatial resort on a Colorado mountain top, snowbound and closed down for the long, long winter. Jack Torrance, a booze-fighting English teacher with a history of violence, is hired as caretaker and, hoping to finish a five-act tragedy he's writing, brings his wife Wendy and small son Danny to the howling loneliness of the half-alive and mad palazzo. The Overlook has a gruesome past, scenes from which start popping into the present in various suites and the ballroom. At first only Danny, gifted with second sight (he's a "shiner"), can see them; then the whole family is being zapped by satanic forces. The reader needs no supersight to glimpse where the story's going as King's formula builds to a hotel reeling with horrors during Poesque New Year's Eve revelry and confetti outta nowhere....

Back-prickling indeed despite the reader's unwillingness at being mercilessly manipulated.