Tag: Childhood

A 1940s Childhood From Bomb Sites to Children’s Hour


Free Download James Marsh, "A 1940s Childhood: From Bomb Sites to Children’s Hour"
English | ISBN: 0752499505 | 2014 | 208 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children’s Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain’s towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of ‘normal life’ returned.

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Mother’s Fury Releasing the Trauma of Childhood Abuse


Free Download Maxine Marsolini, "Mother’s Fury: Releasing the Trauma of Childhood Abuse"
English | ISBN: 1724289217 | 2018 | 264 pages | EPUB | 328 KB
It’s inconceivable for most of us to imagine a mother as a source of dread or the villain in a nightmare. Mothers are typically associated with feelings of love and trust-nurturers, not monsters. But cruelty knows no gender, and some mothers do harm their defenseless children. Pages tell of horrific parenting and vulgar profanity acted out upon a child who would never know what it was like to feel safe in the presence of his own mother.Where is God? He’s crying, too. God’s nature is love and He loves the abused so very much. A powerless child struggles to survive emotional and physical pain day after day, year after year. The Charles Rice story is the backdrop to expose what happens to a child when Mommy, the primary caregiver, is furious and unsafe. Home for children like Charles is a dark and frightening world. Now, as an adult, it’s time to break free; time to feel good about who they are-to know they have value. This book uncovers truth, births hope, and offers help. Now is the time to release trauma from the past and dance into fresh joy. If healing isn’t found, growing up with abuse impacts the quality of future relationships. Statistics prove those who are abused in childhood are at risk of becoming abusers themselves. Let’s stop this awful wrong.Pages speak to the physical, emotional, verbal, and neglect maltreatment of children. Sexual abuse is not addressed. Charles Rice was such a child. He knows firsthand what it means to live with a volatile mother. Those memories usher in tears and trigger flashbacks. They testified to wounds that run deep and cry out to be released. No child should ever experience such grievous wrongs and bear such devastating pain.Unfortunately, we live in a world where sin exists and bad things do happen to children. The choice to move beyond a mother’s rage takes courage. However, acts of courage are needed to move forward-to that place of letting go. It’s there where you find the fresh air of freedom’s balm to soothe a dreadful past. This man’s voice will help other victims of childhood abuse release their own trauma.It is my prayer that those raised under the heavy hand of an abusive mother will move beyond their sufferings to discover how very real God’s love is. Beloved child, you are the apple of His eye. The God, who gave you life, loves you with an everlasting, never-ending, immeasurable love."Maxine Marsolini has introduced us to an almost unimaginable world of horror in her book: A Mother’s Fury. Sadly, the story of Charles Rice, which is told in the book, is not fiction, and it is not as rare as we might hope. Child abuse and neglect is a cancerous reality in our neighborhoods, and is carried forward generation after generation by those who were themselves first innocent victims. The abuse and neglect they suffered was the template given to them of how parents are expected to interact with their own children.However awful the realities of child abuse are, there still remains hope for the victims, both young and old, and this is the powerful message Ms. Marsolini bring to us in her book.At the close of each chapter, are exercises designed to open the doors to healing and freedom from the pain of childhood abuse. Solidly anchored in the truth of Scripture, and in good therapeutic activities, the opportunity is presented for the reader to begin the journey to wholeness.This book can serve well as a starting point for discussions and interventions to enable and empower the victims to step forward onto a path of forgiveness and healing in a nurturing relationship with God.While many victims of childhood abuse will need professional help beyond the scope of this book, I strongly believe that A Mother’s Fury is a valuable and important statement that hope and healing can be found for the victims still suffering from the wounds of their childhoods."- James R. Baker, M.A., CADC-1

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Precarious childhood in post-independence Ireland


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English | 2012 | ISBN: 0719087740 | EPUB | pages: 272 | 0.5 mb
This fascinating study reveals the desperate plight of the poor, illegitimate, and abused children in an Irish society that claimed to cherish and hold them sacred, but in fact marginalized and ignored them. It examines closely the history of childhood in post-independence Ireland, and breaks new ground in examining the role of the state in caring for its most vulnerable citizens.

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Handbook of Early Childhood Education


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English | ISBN: 1613241542 | 2011 | 224 pages | PDF | 5 MB
At this time in our nation’s history, the establishment of a solid foundation upon which to build a student’s educational framework and basic skills is imperative. Teachers, parents, administrators and policy makers are all focusing on test scores, standardised measurement of growth, annual yearly progress and ‘value added’ issues. While education begins in the home, it is the early educational environment in which children are exposed to licensed certified professionals whose charge is to provide students with exposure to the basics and to identify those with developmental needs, and assist in the intervention process. This book provides an overview of the field of early childhood education as well as ancillary issues that permeate the field.

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Persepolis The Story of a Childhood


Free Download Marjane Satrapi, "Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood"
English | 2004 | ISBN: 037571457X | PDF | pages: 158 | 27.0 mb
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Wise, funny, and heartbreaking, Persepolis is Marjane Satrapi’s acclaimed graphic memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

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Movement and Dance in Early Childhood


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English | 2003 | pages: 237 | ISBN: 0761940545, 0761940537 | PDF | 4,3 mb
The book seeks to help early childhood educators and parents in very practical ways and provides guidance based on a sound theoretical understanding.

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Learning From the Children Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World


Free Download Jacqueline Waldren, "Learning From the Children: Childhood, Culture and Identity in a Changing World "
English | ISBN: 0857453254 | 2012 | 204 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Children and youth, regardless of their ethnic backgrounds, are experiencing lifestyle choices their parents never imagined and contributing to the transformation of ideals, traditions, education and adult-child power dynamics. As a result of the advances in technology and media as well as the effects of globalization, the transmission of social and cultural practices from parents to children is changing. Based on a number of qualitative studies, this book offers insights into the lives of children and youth in Britain, Japan, Spain, Israel/Palestine, and Pakistan. Attention is focused on the child’s perspective within the social-power dynamics involved in adult-child relations, which reveals the dilemmas of policy, planning and parenting in a changing world.

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