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Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for twenty–five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, personable fifteen–year–old girl, from a loving and financially comfortable family, came into her office with the word empty carved into her left forearm, Levine was startled. This girl and her message seemed to embody a disturbing pattern Levine had been observing. Her teenage patients were bright, socially skilled, and loved by their affluent parents. But behind a veneer of achievement and charm, many of these teens suffered severe emotional problems. What was going on? Conversations with educators and clinicians across the country as well as meticulous research confirmed Levine's suspicions that something was terribly amiss. Numerous studies show that privileged adolescents are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, anxiety disorders, and substance abuse –– rates that are higher than those of any other socioeconomic group of young people in this country. The various elements of a perfect storm –– materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, disconnection –– are combining to create a crisis in America's culture of affluence. This culture is as unmanageable for parents –– mothers in particular –– as it is for their children. While many privileged kids project confidence and know how to make a good impression, alarming numbers lack the basic foundation of psychological development: an authentic sense of self. Even parents often miss the signs of significant emotional problems in their "star" children. In this controversial look at privileged families, Levine offers thoughtful, practical advice as she explodes one child–rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies parenting practices that are toxic to healthy self–development and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place –– the affluent family.
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afflictions of affluence.......2007-09-05
Madeline Levine knows the afflictions of affluence. Although she was raised in a blue collar setting and her family even lived on state assistance for a while, for thirty years she's lived in Marin County, California, just across the Golden Gate Bridge, where she's raised a family of five and practiced as a clinical psychologist. In addition to her personal experiences as a mother and a clinician, her book includes the findings of social-scientific studies, cultural analyses, and the insights of her colleagues to explore the "paradox of privilege." Why are there so many kids "whose problems seem out of proportion to their life circumstances?" Why do her adolescent patients have some of the highest rates of dysfunctional behaviors, including addictions, eating disorders, cutting, burning, depression, insomnia, boredom and anxiety? Why have adolescent suicides quadrupled since 1950?
Levine encourages us to take an "unflinching look at our parenting skills." There she finds two contributing factors: achievement pressure and maladaptive perfectionism that make kids feel like parental love depends upon performance. Kids also feel isolated from their parents, even those overweening parents who, out of their own neediness, are not simply involved in the lives of their kids but downright intrusive. Levine teases out the distinctions between support and micro-management, wholesome encouragement and overbearing pressure. She also spends considerable time deconstructing the more toxic elements of affluent cultures, encouraging parents to resist the status quo of overwrought competition, perfectionism, and materialism.
All parents have limited abilities, skills, and opportunities, not to mention their own family of origin baggage. Children are all different and unpredictable, so there is no one-size-fits-all set of techniques that guarantees success. Levine is empathetic and realistic; she never makes you feel like parenting requires sainthood. I especially appreciated the several times she shared her own family failures and successes. She repeatedly returns to the special influence of mothers on their children, along with the their unique challenges (including her entire last chapter). I'm sure that many of the problems she describes exist not merely in affluent communities but most everywhere. The wisdom she offers in this book will help any parent, no matter where they live.
a practical and insightful book.......2007-07-11
One reason I was pleased with this book is that the author, psychologist Madeline Levine, doesn't blame money itself for the rising problems among privileged teens. She mentions wealthy families where the kids are raised to be decent, hard-working, responsible and mature. Rather than rail against the evil of money (which would've been annoyingly hypocritical, given that she, her husband and sons live in an affluent community), Dr. Levine makes an important distinction between money and the values that often go hand-in-hand with money (but don't have to).
One example is the attitude of materialism one sees in many privileged communities. Materialism isn't constrained to any one socioeconomic class; a person from a poor or middle class home may also value his possessions excessively, and place more importance on acquiring more "stuff" at the expense of spending quality time with family, forming friendships, and cultivating meaningful interests and positive character traits. The reason why materialism is often associated only with wealth, is that wealthy people have the means to indulge it more often and in more conspicuous ways. The point is, it's this mindset that Levine criticizes, not money per se. She knows wealthy kids who are well-adjusted, in part because their parents had them do chores around the house, encouraged them to volunteer and engage in community activities, did not cave in and buy them everything they wanted, and basically set firm boundaries and placed emphasis on the important values in life. In less healthy families, material goods are sadly seen as fulfilling all needs and solving all problems.
It's painful to read about parents who hold out bribes of expensive cars and clothes in the hopes that their kids will get the best grades, make the best sports teams, and get into the best colleges. As Levine points out, it's not only materialism that hurts these kids. It's also the intense pressure to be the best at everything and pull it off without any apparent effort. The emphasis on outward appearance, on superficial measures of success stifles many of the kids in these communities.
One example she gives is a boy who's unremarkable academically but very gifted at car repair and mechanics. For his parents it's a nightmare; they're ambitious, college-educated professionals and can't accept their son's enthusiasm and preference for what they see as lower class work. They criticize him relentlessly, and as one coping mechanism for feeling so under-valued and out of place in his family and community, he turns to drugs and starts acting out. Levine doesn't excuse the boy's behavior, but she can understand it; in addition to drug abuse treatment, part of her therapy involves the parents and getting them to see that their son is his own person and shouldn't be forced into the prototypical mold for a "successful" child.
Which brings me to another good point about the book. Levine really encourages parents to rethink their parenting styles and review their values and motives. For example, after reading this book a father might wonder why he's pushing his son so hard to play a sport - is it because he wants the boy to learn something and grow as a person? Or is it because he wants to live vicariously through his son and be the envy of the other competitive fathers in the community?
Levine is sympathetic to parents. She acknowledges that most parents want the best for their kids. She has particular compassion for the mothers in these affluent communities, who often lead lonely lives and, because of the need to appear perfectly happy and perfectly together, often don't have a close friend to confide in (in fact, one of the pitfalls is a socially isolated mother turning to her kids for the kind of emotional intimacy she isn't getting from her spouse and friends). She urges parents, particularly mothers, to address the troubled and painful issues in their own lives; essentially, a content and well-adjusted parent makes for a much better influence on a kid than one who is cold and remote, or clingy and needy, or just downright depressed.
Dr. Levine's book is thoughtful, straightforward and worth reading. Though all parents can benefit from her advice, the book is especially important for affluent parents who inspite of their good intentions might readily adopt the dominant values of their communities - the materialism, the pressure to look good and (at least outwardly) succeed, the emotional isolation, and the conformity to a certain kind of lifestyle. As Levine demonstrates again and again in her book, these values stunt and skew development.
Clearly I'm in the minority here.........2007-06-13
This is a very good book with many valuable insights and clinical observations. The problem I have with this book is the same problem I have with the psychological and psychiatric communities in general. Psychotherapists like Dr. Levine have effectively removed religion from their professional discourse and thus their diagnoses, both personal and scoial, are inevitably incomplete. In my opinion, there is a clear link between affluence and secularism/atheism and between secularism/atheism and depression. Statistically, impoverished, less affluent peoples are far more likely to attend religious services on a weekly basis and to hold the religious life in higher esteem. Perhaps it is this lack of a religious orientation that causes or helps to cause those issues which Dr. Levine does consider at length; depression, materialism, perfectionism, stress etc. Unfortuantely, in today's psychiatric climate the question of religion is off the table.
The Price of Privilege.......2007-03-12
This book enlightens parents to the consequences of pampering their chidren monetarily and with lack of discipline. The topic crosses the affluence boundary and affects all families in this day and age, to some extent. Chidlren are growing up with less of a spiritual core which parents fill with 'stuff', playing into the consumer culture of today. It's not only a great parenting book, but an excellent profile of our need to succeed in order to feel worthy. She is a great writer and I highly recommend this book.
Very Important Book.......2007-02-13
I gave this to one of my sisters last spring when her teenage son was going thru some difficulties. She subsequently gave it to her husband, and then to the school headmaster who made it mandatory reading for the school's counseling dept. If they believe so strongly in this book, parents can, too.
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Since first published in 1989, and then again in a revised and updated 1997 edition, From Problems to Profits - The Madson Management System for Pet Grooming Businesses (1997) continues to be the world's best selling grooming business book. It's not a how-to book for the art of grooming, but instead, the most complete how-to book for starting and managing a new grooming business or expanding an existing one. Every managerial topic in grooming is covered from personnel, client relations, safety and supervision, marketing and advertising, bookkeeping, financial planning. Better yet over 100 illustrations provide you with dozens of business form layouts for your personal use. From Problems to Profits is more than a story about the author, Madeline B. Ogle, PhD. Instead she offers you the knowledge and tools she used to build one of the largest and most respected grooming businesses in the world. Now anyone can establish a more stable, profitable grooming business and! grow it as large as they desire, from a stable, busy year round one person business to a major pet care center. The definitive grooming business book that you will use for as long as you own your business. In fact, The Madson Management System has been proven to build the net worth of grooming businesses, and thereby allowing their owners more comfortable retirements when they sell their businesses. The art of grooming is important to every grooming business, but it is grooming management that creates stable, profitable grooming businesses that operate with far fewer problems. Managing a grooming business doesn't have to be stressful, but instead one of the joys of your life forever.
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Helpful.......2007-09-30
This book was purchased for me to help set up a business plan for self-serve dog wash with employees. I was not impressed with some of the ideas that were mentioned in the book regarding the design and style of cards to send to the customers to encourage continued business. Overall, this book was helpful and it sparked my own ideas.
Pet Grooming.......2007-05-15
Not exactly what I was looking for. Thought it would have more of example business plans in it. Good starter book for the Pet grooming.
From Problems to Profits Succeeds.......2004-08-10
This is the definitive book on the "business side" of grooming. Why another reviewer here would say to refer to Notes From The Grooming Table doesn't make sense. It's a great book on the "how to groom side" of grooming and is not a book on the business side of grooming at all. From Problems to Profits for the business side of grooming and Notes for the styling side of grooming and you have the best of the best today.
Useless for House Call or Mobile Grooming.......2004-07-18
I was recommended this book by grooming board but I found it totally useless for the mobile groomer or house call groomer. The book called "Notes from the Grooming Table" is a much better investment for the groomer in general.
The best of the best for grooming........2003-12-23
I visited the office of this author today and asked if I could write a review, and they put me online here so here I am. At first I thought this book was the biography of the author. It's not. It's her system she used to go from a tiny salon to a major pet salon. No matter how small or large a grooming shop you want, you can do it. I was so impressed look at me, I came to visit the author and what a warm welcome I was given. I bet her 5,000 pet owner clients loved her as much as me. This is a classic and many books on how to for any type of service business could take a lesson from the format of this book. If you are going to own a grooming small or large there are so many gems of info in this book. I am so impressed and feel so great about my future as a grooming business owner.
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- Haggadah
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The ultimate children's Haggadah. A child's first seder service, with the story of Passover, an explanation of holiday symbols, seder blessings, and songs. Plus recipes, craft ideas, and pictures to color. Over 2 million in print!
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Haggadah.......2007-05-23
While the content was okay, the online description neglected to indicate that the pictures were all black and white which is not conducive to a beginer's book geared for children.
seder with young children.......2007-05-12
excdellent for use at a seder where there are young children--up to ages 6 or 7.
very nice for young children, and their parents.......2007-04-13
This is a very nice book (it reads like a standard English book, not "backwards" as a traditional Haggadah does), that is very child-appropriate. And while it is far from all-inclusive, it is a very nice supplement for a little kid who is just beginning to participate and be interested in the Passover Seder. The pictures and word-layout are excellent for a beginning reader. Also works as a coloring book, since the pictures are not colored in.
My Very Own Haggadah.......2005-04-27
Terrific for young children. Great illustrations and opportunity for child to color many drawings.
No more bored kids!.......2001-02-16
I used this service with my own kids and now my grandson has his own copy. A classic that has stood the test of time. A perfect length and style for a child's first seder. A must!
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Madeline Hardcover BookPre-ticketed at $16.99. ISBN # 670-44580
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Poor Miss Clavel! In "an old house in Paris that was covered with vines," Miss Clavel oversees the education of 12 little girls, the littlest of whom is the mischievous Madeline. Despite her size, she fearlessly pooh-poohs the tiger in the zoo and frightens Miss Clavel with her adventurous antics. When she awakens the entire house with her plaintive cries in the middle of the night, Doctor Cohn whisks the appendicitis-stricken Madeline off to the hospital where, some two hours later, she awakens to find a scar on her stomach! The scar (not to mention the flowers, toys, and candy given to Madeline by her father) proves quite interesting to the rest of Miss Clavel's charges when they make a special trip to visit her. Ludwig Bemelmans's lilting rhymes are music to children's ears, and the quirky, oddly perfect drawings of the girls in "two straight lines" lend an enticing Parisian flavor to this perennial children's favorite. (Ages 3 to 8)
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outdated.......2007-05-13
Cute many years ago. I think the appropriate age is high school...as a study piece in a lit class.
She was not afraid of mice..........2007-03-16
When I was a young girl of seven my mother purchased this book for me. Along with a Robert Louis Stevenson's Child's Garden of Verses and Babar, a child's Bible and some Golden Books like Bambi and a Mary Poppins.
I then had the core of my early book collection that now is uncountable, but in the thousands. Madeline was dear to me for her adventurous spirit, her surgery scar, and her famous yellow coat and clothes. As a child I had a scar too, though mine was on my forehead from a serious concussion and a skull fracture from age five and I also owned coincidentally a definitive yellow coat. But it was perhaps the spirit of the main character I admired and her dramatic flair that compelled me to state to my 1st grade that I could indeed speak and sing in French. It was a rather defining "prove it " moment followed by several rounds of gibberish and Frere Jacques. Oh well. You move on from these things eventually.
I know I admired the drama and rhyme in this book all my life. Now I am a teacher of 1st graders and have used the story in spring for years.(and my 10 years of French still sounds like gibberish) They can read it now; they can also use the pattern and sound to carry them through the text when reading tires them as it does at the beginning stages in these dull phonics things they mandate. "In an old house in Paris that was covered in vines" still thrills them and me too. I like the sound of that and the children like the sound. I even enjoy when a stretched rhyme comes weaving in, as in "arm" with "warm" ,which is something rather delightful throughout the series. For my Sheltered Immersion students the flavor of this is so helpful in teaching reading with expression and cadence. They so enjoy the looks at landmarks worldwide like the Eiffel Tower. This is a part of this book, part of the genius. It's the time of the year in my instruction when it just all fits together so well using her story.
If you do not know the book (and can I suggest that this seems nearly impossible) Madeline is living in an old house in Paris of all places(one of my students Gabriela informed us this is the city of "love") at her boarding school under the care of a kind Miss Clavel who is clearly dressed as a nun. She is a bold little girl who in the middle of the night suffers an appendix emergency. She is rushed to the hospital, cared for and the other girls grow a bit jealous at her surgery after a visit because she has the loveliest collection of gifts ever. I remember that I had my fiasco with no gifts and somehow when I would look at that I formed my idea of parenting. Thus my daughters and son had everything. It was a silliness I blame squarely on Madeline repressed memories.
Madeline has spawned sequels, websites, clubs, notions of stories about other little girls, dolls, TV shows, movies and lots of merchandising that we endure as "wonderful" when our children are little. I think the genius of the author, Ludwig Bemelmans, is in the gouache paintings that are such masterpieces. You behold a certain kind of free and engaging illustration. For me they are literally like Raoul Dufy works.... perhaps a touch of Chagall. And for that reason I have all my life a strong connection to certain artists. I love the scene of Notre Dame. When I was 16 and again in my 20's going to Paris and seeing these places it really was filtered through the impressions and images in my mind from this and also from Madeline's Rescue where the images presented in the text in color increased. I love rapid, gestural mark. This is such a part of Madeline's images. There is a reason why the TV work and the movie didn't interest me so much. My relationship to this book, this text was a voyage into these marks and these colloquial, charming, almost comically uncontrived pictures. There is a world of experience in an artist informing/creating that "simple" work. Reminds me of the peace doves of later Picasso...the times of these kinds of poster arts. Lovely. Truly.
Every time I teach this book we do 12x18 images of the old house and washy watercolors over crayon images. Then make Madelines separately and affix them to the images. It's so delightful really and I associate her with spring daffodils. Sometimes we also make up our own adventures for her and do a bit of writing. It's just remarkable to have a character so dynamic, female, and independent. Madeline is just joyfully living. Hopefully she survives many more generations of readers and can be a part of the literacy experiences in classrooms for years. Just a little suggestion...get your children drawing and painting. Madeline would approve.
Great gift for the little girl who loves Madeline .......2007-01-04
This is a great replica of the illustrated Madeline featured in the books. Her yellow hat and blue coat are darling and her red hair completes the picture. A great find for any child who adores the Madeline series like I did as a child.
A wonderful tool for the teacher.......2006-12-07
"To the tiger in the Zoo, Madeleine just said 'pooh pooh'".
The Madeleine stories in French or English are great for teaching almost all grade levels!
You might think that middle school boys will punch out at Madeleine, but fortunately they can relate to the son of the Spanish Ambassador, who is just wild enough to dismay the girls and interest your boy students.
You can use Madeleine as a basis for activities in Creative Writing.
Have the kids write a story about a visit by Madeleine, Miss Clavel, and the girls to their home town.
Have the kids read Eloise of the Plaza for crosscultural comparision, and write Madeleine Meets Eloise. Since Eloise is such a total American brat, and Madeleine such a self-disciplined Jehan la Pucelle of France, the potential for mutual learning is awesome.
I teach in an international school in Hong Kong and the kids are sophisticated enough to understand Madeleine at an early age; many have traveled to Paris.
But if you teach in the USA, be assured that not even the most raving right-wing teacher-hater Trogdolyte will be able to find anything objectionable in Madeleine. Elle est Catholique, mais oui, but I think Miss Clavel is a member of Opus Dei's female auxiliary.
I do think Miss Clavel, who's not a real Nun, needs a day off in Montmartre and would be delighted to arrange it.
Bemelman's politics are (French) Republican and mainstream, only somewhat anti-*ancien regime* as in the scene where Madeleine asserts the values of Madame la Republique as against racial discrimination against dogs.
A Mother's/Aunt's Review.......2006-11-04
This is a wonderful book for little girls. My daughter and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it over and over and over again when she was little. Since we can't part with our copy, I have bought a new for my new little grandniece, age 1. I wanted to be the "first" to give her her "first" Madeleine book.
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- ...an anthology of shards from a broken world...
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...an anthology of shards from a broken world..........2004-05-17
Though the concentration camps are never mentioned, these 23 short stories are a haunting collection about life in Poland at the time of the Holocaust. The theme of the anthology is on the excruciating agony of life in a broken world. These are stories of resistance, submission, betrayal, hope, regret and remembering.
Each story is the nightmare of an otherwise quiet ordinary people, previously living a secure and ordered existence. What is most striking is the uniqueness of the tone and style in each short story; and that none of the stories talk of the camps, only the horror before and after.
Perhaps, the author's own words (see below) taken from the first, title story captures why this collection is ultimately crucial to an impression, an understanding of those times. [Recommended for Young Adults/Adults]
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I want to talk about a certain time not measured in months and years. For so long I have wanted to talk about this time, and not in the way I will talk about it now, not just about this one scrap of time. I wanted to, but I couldn't, I didn't know how. I was afraid, too, that this second time, which is measured in months and years, had buried the other time under a layer of years, that this second time had crushed the first and destroyed it within me. But no. Today, digging around in the ruins of memory, I found it fresh and untouched from forgetfulness. This time was measured not in months but in a word--we no longer said "in the beautiful month of May," but "after the first "action," or the second, or right before the third." We had different measures of time, we different ones, always different, always with that mark of difference that moved some of us to pride and others to humility. We, who because of our difference were condemned once again, as we had been before in our history, we were condemned once again during this time measured not in months nor by the rising and setting of the sun, but by a word--"action," a word signifying movement, a word you would use about a novel or a play.
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A Scrap of Time.......1999-12-02
Ida Fink uses vivid langauge and impectable details to bring faces to the Holcaust. She tells haunting stories about Jewish life in Poland before and after World War II. Fink's stories are beutifully told and evoke every emotion; from fear to joy, hatred to pity. The book tells about individuals and gives faces and lives to the often impresonal Holocaust.
An exceptional collection of short stories.......1999-05-31
A Scrap of Time is a collection of short stories that masterfully presents the Holocaust experience from the perspective of survivors, witnesses, and victims in the villages of occupied Poland. Acts of personal courage, the day to day decisions that meant life or death, personal attempts to carry on with dignity, are all expressed here in powerful language and moving tales that evoke the Holocaust as it is not often told: as an experience that was as personal as each person who lived it. I have read and re-read this book several times. Each time, the stories seem to resound with their original power. Ida Fink, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, is a master storyteller. With the very first sentence, she has the ability to create scenes of astonishing clarity and suspense. You simply cannot put the book down until you finish the story. With simple, lyrical language, she creates scenes of tremendous emotional impact. I don't believe I will ever look at the Holocaust in quite the same way. No television documentary could ever do justice to the Holocaust experience as these unforgettable stories of the personal lives of human beings in the most impossible of situations.
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This elegant volume--perhaps one of the best gift books on the planet--contains all six adventures of the irrepressible, mischievous Madeline (the smallest and spunkiest of the twelve little girls in two straight lines). Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline was first published in 1939, and its five sequels have all become classics. In Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen's introduction to Mad About Madeline she writes, "Amid a childhood full of children's books, amid glorious pictures and imaginative plots, it is worth wondering why this story is among a handful of books that now-grown children invariably buy for their own more than half a century after Ludwig Bemelmans began writing it on the back of a restaurant menu."
Inside this hefty, richly illustrated edition, you'll find Madeline, Madeline and the Bad Hat, Madeline's Rescue, Madeline and the Gypsies, Madeline in London, and Madeline's Christmas, in addition to Quindlen's splendidly insightful introduction, an essay by Bemelmans on how he invented Madeline, never-before-published working sketches of Madeline, and photos of the Bemelmans family. The perfect gift for anyone who has made friends with--or should be introduced to--the precocious Madeline. (The jaunty verse makes Madeline perfect for reading aloud, and readers ages 6 and older will enjoy sounding out names such as Lord Cucuface.)
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For over sixty years, Madeline's adventures have enthralled her ever-growing audience. This collection brings together all six of the Madeline books in one volume. Every well-loved word and picture is here, plus an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anna Quindlen, an essay by Ludwig Bemelmans on how he created Madeline, and working sketches of Madeline, as well as photos of the Bemelmans family. This landmark volume will be treasured by the entire family.
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A must have for every girl.......2007-05-12
I usually borrow children books from my local library but there are some I do want my daughters to own, this is one of them. Madeline's character is so charming, the stories are easy to read and full of adventures little girls will love.
The Perfect Bedtime Storybook.......2007-04-05
For years, young girls have been entertained by the adventures of Madeline, and this collection of stories only adds to the Madeline madness!
My girls love Madeline.......2007-01-16
Bemelman's quirky stories and wonderful illustrations captivate my girls when Madeline comes up as the evening's bedtime story. While the original story is by far the most realistic and best, my girls (both under five) love the fact that Madeline has new adventures, and we like that real things happen to her, like her appendix bursting or she falls in the river when playing on a bridge.
Unlike so many children's books, sometimes Madeline's sisters are "very sad." But reading Madeline makes my girls very happy.
good children's classics.......2007-01-10
I bought this as Christmas gift for my friends' kids and they LOVE it.
This is a fantastic collection........2006-11-10
My kids and I had very little exposure to Madeline, but Anna Quindlen's foreward intrigued me. My kids and I are now hooked. Madeline is such a charming character, and now we have all of her adventures to enjoy!
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Start kindergarteners writing even before they can print or spell -- and improve their reading readiness. Use the ten effective classroom writing-workshop strategies in a literature-based setting or with any readiness series and reach every child, no matter the literacy level. You'll treasure this lovely and useful reasource.
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Just What I Needed.......2004-11-04
This book has an excellent overview of writing with early learners. It also has great activities and strategies for engaging students in learning to write. Wonderful!
Highly Recommended.......2004-02-13
Do children have to know how to spell and read before they are taught to write? No, contends Bea Johnson emphatically in Never Too Early to Write-a gem of a book which describes both a writing program and a way of thinking.
Each chapter is chock-full of advice, tips, anecdotes, and, thoughtfully, samples of actual student work. In Chapters 1 and 2, Johnson makes the argument that kindergartners and first graders should be taught to write. To support her contention, she explains in detail the many benefits in doing so. One of the most important is that when students write, they are using letters and punctuation. Indeed, they are immersed in them. This, in turn, imbues the strange squiggles and marks with meaning. They are not so mysterious nor foreign anymore. They have a purpose. They can communicate thoughts, feelings, ideas. Other benefits include: enlarged vocabulary, enhanced phonetics and spelling, increased familiarity of sentence patterns and word discrimination, additional opportunities to think critically and creatively, and even increased self-esteem.
At this point you may be thinking, that all sounds well and good, but how am I going to fit this into my already crowded day? The answer: Integrate the writing experiences into your other subjects. "Writing," asserts Johnson, "shouldn't be a once-a-week activity done on Friday afternoon, 20 minutes before the busses arrive." Johnson also contends that you "will discover incredible truths" about your teaching if you have your students write in the content areas. How? By having students write about the lesson, you will have immediate feedback-in black and white-about what they learned
and didn't learn.
Chapter 3 delves into seven stages or benchmarks of writing: from scribbling to random lettering to conventional spelling. It is important, declares Johnson, that children should not be taught at a level beyond their capabilities.
In the next chapter, Johnson discusses "The Rules." Although they are an "ideal" and you won't be able to follow them all the time, they should, she states, at least be in the back of your mind. In a nutshell, an effective writing classroom is informal, open to experimentation, content oriented, supportive, affirming, and encourages "table talk." The teacher "provides students with the tools, time, and structure to write."
"The Big Four" are discussed in Chapter 5. They are: Dictation, Drawing, Scribbling, and Temporary Spelling. There are a plethora of benefits to dictation, notes Johnson. First and foremost, the student "realizes immediately that his spoken words have meaning and can be written down" (emphasis mine). As the teacher or volunteer writes, the student is able to observe: left-to-right progression, punctuation, phonics, sentence structure, and more.
"Drawing," writes Johnson, "becomes the child's rehearsal stage of writing." These illustrations are snapshots, so to speak, of the child's thinking. Scribbles are the beginning stages of writing. Here the child experiments with word and sentence formation, symbols, holding the writing instrument and more. As educators, we should not overlook these attempts. Rather, we should "take advantage of the learning potential" of them by asking the student what he or she has written. Temporary spelling, notes Johnson, "is children's first attempts to write words using their best judgment about spelling." She then goes on to discuss the three stages of temporary spelling as well as the benefits described in research findings.
In Chapters 6 through 15 Johnson discusses in detail ten writing strategies. Among them are: Individual Language Experience Stories (ILES); Journal Writing; Draw and Write; Pattern Stories; Class Newspaper.
Johnson rounds out the book with a chapter on communicating with parents (which includes sample parent letters) and a chapter on conclusions, questions and answers.
If you are interested in trying a writing workshop in your kindergarten or first grade classroom, this concise, approachable, highly useful volume that will help you accomplish your goal.
Reviewed by the Education Oasis Staff
Never Too Early To Write.......2003-11-20
I am very excited about this book and this program. I began using this program in just two months ago. The setting is a first semester, half-day kindergarten program. Over 30% of my students are English Language Learners, nearly 10% receive speech services, 5% are hearing impaired, and nearly 10% receive other special education services. Most are considered low-income. If this program produces results for us, it can work for anyone.
The strategies in Never Too Early To Write are designed to lead each individual student to her full potential. Students express their own thoughts, feelings, and concerns. A teacher cannot help but connect with the children. Every student wants to be loved and respected as a unique person. Journal writing allows for a private moment with each student. Each child is working on skills that are meaningful to her. Once a concept is mastered, there is another to focus on.
The reasons for beginning the program are clear, but the side effects were the most impressive. Writing is FUN! It is fun for me. It is fun for the paraprofessionals in the classroom. It is fun for the volunteers. It is fun for parents to see their children progress. Most importantly, it is fun for the students; they love it.
Happy Teacher.......2003-08-05
I would recommend this book to any kindergarten teacher. For those new to the profession, it offers wonderful suggestions for writing activities that don't take much preparation time and don't require special supplies or materials. For experienced teachers, this book will spice up the existing writing program.
I am a kindergarten teacher and have used ideas from this book for the last two years. The natural language Bea uses makes it enjoyable to read and easy to understand. Her philosophy that children don't need to be pushed in order to grow as writers makes a lot of sense. The writing activities in this book have helped produce many happy, self-confident students who love to write and a happy teacher who has gotten to know her students better than ever before.
Great book for any curriculum.......2002-10-13
This book is about a teaching to write curriculum that is wideley used in Northern Italy schools.We call it Ferrero-Teberoski. I use the same method to allow my fifth graders write in English, a language they are learning as EFL.Letting them write in English allows me to gear my teaching to kids with different abilities and it also let students having whatever ability to feel proud of his/her accomplishments, and hence improves their self-assureness. I would encourage EFL and ESL teachers to read this book and make this method part of their curriculum.
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The Rules of Seduction
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Book Description
Dangerous. Sensual. Handsome as sin. Meet Hayden Rothwell, the shamelessly erotic hero of The Rules of Seduction and author Madeline Hunter’s most irresistible alpha male yet: a man of extraordinary passion and power, a man who can bring out the seductress in any woman.…
He enters her home without warning or invitation–a stranger of shadowy motives and commanding sensuality. Within hours, Alexia Welbourne is penniless, without any hope of marriage. Until Hayden Rothwell takes her to bed. When one impulsive act of passion forces Alexia to marry the very man who has ruined her, Hayden’s seduction of Alexia is nearly complete. What Alexia doesn’t know is that her irresistible new husband is driven by a secret purpose–and a debt of honor he will risk everything to repay. Alexia is the wild card. Reluctant to give up their nightly pleasures, Hayden must find a way to keep Alexia by his side...only to be utterly, thoroughly seduced by a woman who is now playing by her own rules.
Customer Reviews:
GOOD BOOK - BUT SORRY TO SAY, I WAS NOT BLOWN AWAY...........2007-10-05
As you may have noticed, if you have read any of my reviews, I typically review a book if it has touched me and it is ab-fab - a work to be remembered - and sometimes, re-read.
I this case am at a loss as to how to rate this book. Never had read any of Madeline's works before, I became intrigued by the rave reviews on her books by other readers and decided to give it a try.
No doubt, the book is very well written and the plot well executed.... Although at times difficult to follow because of all the machinations regarding the bank frauds and all the related characters involved.
By saying I am at a loss, I mean that I wasn't sure if I enjoyed the book or her writing style until I was almost 3 quarters into the novel. I was captivated by the character's story but truthfully, I was more intrigued by the other two brothers in the story... ultimately want to read the story of the older brother, Christian, patriarch of the family.
The developing story between Hayden and Alexia was good but not fabulous. You never get to know about the demons haunting the brothers and how their father's treatment has affected them, in this case namely Hayden.. only that he retreats to numbers and logarithms when he is plagued by his temper... He is a man ruled by honor and the book revolves about the debt of honor he owes Benjamin, Alexia's cousin (the man she was in love with before he died at sea). The character development lacked depth of emotion and sexual tension captured by other authors. Their development seemed trite and rather stilted, their dialogue at times flat and lacking emotion, although you do witness the budding relationship between the two protagonists, it is somewhat dull in their advance. By the time Hayden comes to realize that he loves her, it seems a little incongruous, after he has showed little or no emotion throughout the whole novel.
The same goes for Alexia... I was annoyed by her somewhat misguided sense of loyalty to her cousins.. maybe to Rose, but certainly not Timothy. Although, I must say it was refreshing to see that she retained her personality and sense of commitment, never veering from her convictions. Eventually she comes to realize that the man she has married is loyal, true and very devoted to her, although she judged Hayden at the beginning, she strived to understand him and see the man behind his mask of indifference. I think it is that perseverance that makes Hayden fall in love with her.
He exhibits tremendous kindness for Alexia's female cousins. Rose is too bitter and resentfully proud to allow Hayden any kindness from Hayden, as they believe he caused their impoverished circumstances... little do they know it is because of him that Timothy has not been taken to jail for extortion and theft.
The sexual/love scenes were explicit, but not lurid. It amazed me that after the sexual attraction and physical tenderness in the bedroom, feelings of love took such a long time to emerge, and only towards the end of the book.
I have ordered the next book so that I can read Phaedra's and Hayden's younger brother, Elliott's story.. although I cant wait to read Christian's story... That is going to be a turbulent one...!!! What could have happened to make him behave the way he does and disdain most of everything in life? One can only hope that Rose will swallow her resentment long enough to realize that Christian really needs her!
Loved this book.......2007-10-01
Just when I grow tired of romance novels, I come across one like this that reminds me why I am a fan of the genre. Wonderful love story and character development. Not one false note in this one.
A fantastic romance book!.......2007-08-18
This book is a keeper. I loved the hero. His character, although obscure at first, got better and deeper and more wonderful with every page.
The heroine was clever and real and feminine. She was the sort of woman I could definitely be "friends with", if you know what I mean. Really lovable.
I don't think anyone who reads this book could be terribly disappointed.
I loved it! Can't wait to read Lessons of Desire!
Another Winner.......2007-08-01
Madeline Hunter has done it again. The characters are believable, the plot engrossing and the romance sensually engaging. A wonderful start to what promises to be a new series well worth reading.
This is one to buy.......2007-07-21
It has been over a month since I read this, but a quick read of the summary brings it right back. This book was SO good - the characters had depth, the story was full of twists, the passion medium to high, and the lead male character was one you could really fall in love with. I suppose the only criticism is that it did seem a little unrealistic that he would keep the secret about the bank even from his wife since her cousin was such a jerk, but I suppose there are those who keep their word to a "T". A highly recommended read.
Book Description
Jane Hamilton, award-winning author of The Book of Ruth and A Map of the World, is back in top form with a richly textured novel about a tragic accident and its effects on two generations of a family.
When Aaron Maciver’s beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
Narrated by Aaron's son, Mac, When Madeline Was Young chronicles the Maciver family through the decades, from Mac’s childhood growing up with Madeline and his cousin Buddy in Wisconsin through the Vietnam War, through Mac’s years as a husband with children of his own, and through Buddy’s involvement with the subsequent Gulf Wars. Jane Hamilton, with her usual humor and keen observations of human relationships, deftly explores the Maciver's unusual situation and examines notions of childhood (through Mac and Buddy’s actual youth as well as Madeline’s infantilization) and a rivalry between Buddy’s and Mac’s families that spans decades and various wars. She captures the pleasures and frustrations of marriage and family, and she exposes the role that past relationships, rivalries, and regrets inevitably play in the lives of adults.
Inspired in part by Elizabeth Spencer’s Light in the Piazza, Hamilton offers an honest and exquisite portrait of how a family tragedy forever shapes and alters the boundaries of love.
Customer Reviews:
A storyline that wandered.......2007-09-26
You grow up, you get married to the woman of your dreams. But then all of a sudden she has a bicycle wreck that leaves her living life with a 6-year-old mentality. What do you do? Do you stay married? What happens to your wife? We find in this touching story that the decision of one man was to take care of his wife as she was his own child. He raised her with his children (from a second marriage) and loved her nonstop.
Mac is this man's son who grew up thinking that Madeline was his sister. Mac took Madeline to the park, to the ice cream parlor, and defended her against bullies who called her dumb or tried to take advantage of her. Somewhere along the way, Mac learned the truth about Madeline, but still continued to love her like a sister. Mac takes us through his journey as he remembers it when he gets the call that his cousin's son has been killed in action. Mac tries to decide whether or not to go to the funeral and in doing so, relives his years growing up with Madeline.
Somewhere along the way, I lost the point of the story being Madeline-and it became more about Mac and who he was. Madeline was mentioned occasionally, but mainly as a background character. With the title being about her, I thought the book would have centered more around her rehab, therapies and life after the accident.
Jane Hamilton has a gift in writing that makes it easy to read. While this story is a beautiful one, it was a bit confusing from chapter to chapter. I never knew what decade was being discussed. The story seemed to bounce all over the place with flashbacks that came without warning. It also seems very odd to me when a female writer writes from the male perspective and vice versa.
I think this book could have been better as a finished product if it would have had a little more organization to the story line. The story was there, it just needed some redirection.
Armchair Interview says: A story of extreme caretaking that most would or could never do.
The Two Mrs. Macivers.......2007-08-24
In When Madeline Was Young, Jane Hamilton creates one of the more unusual American families that readers will find in recent fiction. Their story begins with the 1943 bicycle accident that left newlywed Madeline Maciver forever trapped inside the mind of a seven-year-old child, an accident that shaped the Maciver family in ways that no one could have foreseen. Aaron Maciver, her husband, determined to do right by Madeline despite the fact her parents write her out of their own lives, refuses to even consider the option of placing her in any kind of institution. At the hospital, during the early days after Madeline's accident, Aaron is comforted by talking to Julia, a nurse whom he briefly met at his wedding, and they find themselves falling in love.
When Julia eventually becomes the second Mrs. Maciver, she and Aaron agree that Madeline must remain a part of their new family and she effectively becomes their first "child," something that does not seem at all unusual to the son and daughter who complete the family. It is through the eyes of their son Mac that we learn what happens to this remarkable family for the next several decades. Most of the book is set in the fifties and sixties, two decades that Hamilton recreates in a way that reminds the reader just how different they were from each other. Through Mac's memories of his childhood and teen years, she contrasts the enthusiasm and innocence of the fifties with the angst and anger that the Viet Nam war created in the sixties.
This was not the novel I expected it to be. I was hoping that Hamilton would tell more of the story through the eyes of Madeline herself, offering some insight into what it would be like to suffer the kind of injury that Madeline suffered, but she became much more of a secondary character than I wanted her to be. With Mikey O'Day, Madeline's brain damaged boyfriend, Hamilton did, however, create one of the more memorable characters that I have encountered in a long while. The always happy Mikey O'Day, a man who loved singing in public and who saw Madeline as the love of his life, was sheer joy in his innocence and turned out to be my favorite character in the entire book.
In reality, When Madeline Was Young is an ordinary book about an extraordinary subject. It could have been so much more if Hamilton had focused more on Madeline and less on the things that made the Macivers just like every other family in the fifties and sixties. The Macivers were different and it is those differences that I wanted to learn about.
A Fine Read.......2007-06-28
Jane Hamilton has done her readers a great favor with her latest work. In exquisitely describing a loving family living in the complexity of mid-20th c. America, she allows us to enter into a family which beautifully ties itself to each of its individual members. I loved this book and didn't want it to end. Mac, the narrator, is the product of parents who live the values they hold dear; his reflections on his childhood and his adult family life show that the lessons took hold. The parents' political beliefs are an extension of the way they see the world as it should be -- a nurturing and hospitable place for everyone. It's no Utopia, though, and Hamilton's keen observation of family dynamics engages the reader in the confusions and conflicts of this mid-western family, shedding light on life's complexities throughout the unfolding of this quietly compelling story. This is a fine read!
Also disappointed.......2007-05-26
Glad to see I wasn't the only reader disappointed by this book. I have truly loved all of Hamilton's previous works, which makes the disappointment in this one even that much deeper. Whose story is this? Mac's? Julia's? The ever-present debate between war and peace? It's certainly not Madeline's story. The real question is - who cares? I found it difficult to connect with or care about any of the characters at all, and the tangets Hamilton goes on - Mac's family, Louise as a cellist, Julia's war discussions - detracted from what I felt was the main story. Although it was difficult to grasp what that main story was supposed to be. Don't waste your time on this book. Read, or re-read, Short History of a Prince or Map of the World instead.
Just awful..........2007-03-17
I've loved the author's previous books but this one was just 'off'. I tried to care about these characters, tried to get into it but it was just BORING.
Book Description
This landmark book enlightens amateur and professional musicians about a way of practicing that transforms a sometimes frustrating, monotonous, and overly strenuous labor into an exhilarating and rewarding experience. Acclaimed pianist and teacher Madeline Bruser combines physiological and meditative principles to help musicians release physical and mental tension and unleash their innate musical talent. She offers practical techniques for cultivating free and natural movement, a keen enjoyment of sounds and sensations, a clear and relaxed mind, and an open heart and she explains how to
Prepare the body and mind to practice with ease
Understand the effect of posture on flexibility and expressiveness
Make efficient use of the hands and arms
Employ listening techniques to improve coordination
Increase the range of color and dynamics by using less effort
Cultivate rhythmic vitality
Perform with confidence, warmth, and freedom
Photographs show essential points of posture and movement for a variety of instruments.
Customer Reviews:
Good Musicianship is in the practice room.......2007-08-27
This book is written to help you improve your ideas and mental outlook toward daily practice.. Ms. Bruser goes into the importance of technical correctness, including posture and movement, but she really inspires us to approach practice with a different attitude. I play the tuba as an amateur. After reading her book, I began to practice more, but I actually may spend less time playing notes. Musicianship implies technical expertise, but this book is really written to help you improve your artistic musicality and learn to make music with passion, intelligence and sensitivity. To do this, you must approach each practice much like a performance, or a master class with you as your own clinician. Practice is not just face time with your instrument..
A wonderful insight into making music.......2007-01-20
There are some incredibly useful insights into making music. Madeline Bruser suggests getting into a routine and following it daily. Much emphasis is on avoiding practice-related physical and mental injuries. For serious musicians, it eliminates much of the angst surrounding each practice session and brings back the joy that ultimately is the fundamental reason to play.
Another book to check out: Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within by Kenny Werner (an absolutely killer jazz pianist)
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The Art of Practicing.......2006-11-06
Inspiring, readable book with wonderful advice for improving musical performance through physical, intellectual, and emotional exercises. Visualizations are simple and effective. I'm recommending it to all my serious piano students.
A valuable resource for all musicians.......2006-07-20
Madeline Bruser's compendium on her Art of Practicing seminars will prove valuable to all musicians who feel that the physical/mental stresses of life affect their playing. For a long time I suffered from a sore left wrist after a several hour practice session at the piano which was a result of built up tension and using inefficient motions. After correcting the height of my bench (to be higher) and studying Bruser's text (specifically the chapters on stretching/basic mechanics) I have begun to learn to play in a much more relaxed and efficient manner. Her book is inspiring and full of radiant ideas. I would recommend it to anyone who feels that their practicing has become stagnant or whose expression and speed is being held back by forceful and tense playing.
A must have for serious teen music students.......2006-02-28
I bought this book for my 16 year old flautist. She read and re-read this book until the words seem to come off the page. It totally inspired her practice sessions for upcoming concerts. The difference was phenominal !!
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