Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice

Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice
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Momma and Grandma knew best,or maybe not??....

Nice for what it is

only Ok

Improve your favorite mom's breastmilk!

Laugh out-loud funny

Mommy Knows Worst: Highlights from the Golden Age of Bad Parenting Advice
James Lileks
Manufacturer: Three Rivers Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1400082285
Release Date: 2005-10-25

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From the author of The Gallery of Regrettable Food comes a horrifying-yet-hysterical book dedicated to the expert parenting advice from previous generations. Each glossy page includes vintage print ads and photos accompanied by James Lilek's mean comments. But then, what other response is possible, when faced with cough syrup advertisement with a happy child exclaiming, "A cough syrup good enough to eat with ice cream"!

General categories include "Clothing and Accessories" (including a pattern to make a headband that binds protruding ears to babies' heads), "Bowels" (featuring an ad with the text, "If he spanks me again, I'm going to run away from home"), and "The Good Old Days", which offers several detailed options for creating a home delivery center. In every chapter, Lilek's comments are the equivalent of cracks from your most sarcastic friend.

For any new parent who's tired of modern advice books, or expecting parents in need of a touch of humor amidst the stress of pregnancy, look no further. Every page has a laugh, and every page will remind the reader that sooner or later, almost all parenting advice will end up having the same worth as what's included here. Jill Lightner

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Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater!

Ahhhh, the 1940s and ’50s . . . a time when parents everywhere strove for the American Dream—manicured lawns, a shiny car in the driveway, and perfect children playing in the yard. Raising kids was simpler back then, or was it?

In Mommy Knows Worst, you’ll be treated to a visual feast of past parenting neuroses—as well as insight into why concerned moms and dads were driven to buy “delicious” baby laxatives, douse their baby in oil and put him in the sun, and strap Junior into a car seat that bore a strange resemblance to scrap metal. If you’re a baby boomer who lived through this childhood torture, well, we’re sorry. But if humor really is the best medicine (rather than bicarbonate of curd and mustard plaster, as was previously recommended for childhood ailments), then Mommy Knows Worst is cheaper than therapy.

Photographs, advertisements, magazine articles, and government-issue parenting guides, which seemed so helpful in their day, are given a whole new slant by the master of the genre, James Lileks. Mommy Knows Worst is a rollicking tribute to old-fashioned parenting that gives us a whole new reason not to forget our past—it’s hilarious!

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Momma and Grandma knew best,or maybe not??...........2007-09-14

I own the author's other book (called "Interior Degrecations") and that book made me chuckle, so I wanted to see what this book was like. I found this book on sale, and I think I laughed even louder when I read this one by Lileks.
Basically, Lileks found a varity of advertisements from various magazines and newspapers from around 1905 to the late 1960's. Then he reproduced them in this book (very nicely) and finally, he added his own humorous takes on each and every ad.
Lileks' sense of humor can be hard to take, if you are thin skinned, but if you like a sense of humor that is a bit over the edge, then you will appreciate Lileks' humor. Some people may have been offended, but I was not because I understood what he was trying to show & say.
This book is not meant to be taken seriously.
Lileks stuck to the topic 100%. In other words, as the book's title and sub-title stated,this book pokes fun at the home-remedies and the "grandma & momma-knows-best" advice that many of us may have heard throughout our lives. Maybe an 18 year old may not have heard of any of these "practical hints", but if the reader has been around for at least 30 years, the remedies will bring back memories of the past, and keep you on the floor laughing. I have shared this book with other 30+ year old persons and they laughed along with me.
If you can find this book on sale, as I did, it may not be a bad buy for you, because in my opinion, we all need to lighten up at times and laugh at ourselves (and at our Mom's advice that was past down from genration to generation).

Nice for what it is.......2007-08-03

This book is fun and a makes a nice gift for any baby boomer you know. Good laughs.

only Ok.......2007-07-16

I bought this book thinking if I peed my pants reading "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" I'd love this, but I didn't care for it and I love baby books of ALL kinds. Maybe you will enjoy more that me.

Improve your favorite mom's breastmilk!.......2007-07-13

James Lileks is one of the best humorists out there. His books always bring me to tears of joy, and since new research shows that a mother's laughter improves the quality of her breastmilk, Mommy Knows Worst is a fantastic gift for a new mom. My daughter is 2 months old, and I have read this book repeatedly since she was born, and I always crack up. I have tried to read parts of it aloud to my husband, but I start laughing too hard and can't speak or breathe so I have to hand him the book to finish the page. Lileks' other books -- The Gallery of Regrettable Foodand Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s-- are likewise hilarious! (The Gallery of Regrettable Food is a great gift for a new bride, as long as she understands the irony!)

Laugh out-loud funny.......2007-05-28

I skimmed through this one in a bookstore, and found myself laughing uproariously at every other page.

It wasn't as good as Gallery of Regrettable Food, but still worthwhile.

Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger

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The Perfect Book For Anger
Parents, this is the book to read!

Healthy Anger: How to Help Children and Teens Manage Their Anger
Bernard Golden
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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How should we respond to a child's temper tantrum? To a teenager's sullen resentment? How can we help children and teens experience their anger without being overwhelmed by it? How can we deal with their anger before it leads to depression, isolation, or even violence? In Healthy Anger, Bernard Golden draws upon more than twenty years of experience as a psychologist and teacher to offer specific, practical strategies for helping children and teens manage their anger constructively. Golden has developed a set of skills that parents, teachers, and counselors can use to show children how to identify the causes of anger; how to respond to it in ways that lead to an internal sense of competence and self-control; how to use anger to understand their own emotional situation; and how to develop a greater capacity for empathy towards themselves and others. And he shows parents how to cope with outbursts--including clear, step-by-step instructions and problem-solving skills--how to derail escalating anger, reward good behaviors, and recognize when professional help is needed. For anyone who has ever helplessly confronted a child's rage or a teenager's defiant fury, Healthy Anger offers a wealth of wise insight, clear advice, and eminently practical strategies for turning anger into understanding.

Customer Reviews:

The Perfect Book For Anger.......2003-02-03

Reading this book was very stimulating but yet very refreshing and informative. The book provided significant theoretical information, but more so presented it in a manner in which the parent sas well as the practioner could easily understand and apply it in working with children with anger.
In addition, many of the concepts and techniques about handling anger can be applied, to a degree, both to children and adults across the board. Thus as a teacher and psychotherapist, I highly recommend this book be used as a guide and resource reference for parents, teachers and other mental health professionals.
Respectfully,
Matthew Williams, MSW, ACSW
Chicago, Illinois

Parents, this is the book to read!.......2003-01-20

I highly recommend this book for parents. Golden has a way of explaning without directing blame but solutions! Check it out and I am sure you will be as pleased as I am! Many thanks for this wonderful first book for parents

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Poor Children and Welfare Reform:
Olivia Golden
Manufacturer: Auburn House
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Olivia Golden considers how innovative and effective help for poor children can emerge from the world of big bureaucratic systems. She asks why the nation's public welfare agencies, despite the large number of children in the families they serve, have paid so little attention to children's needs; and she analyzes what it would take for these agencies to respond much more richly to children and their families. Drawing on the approaches of seven successful programs from across the country, she offers answers and recommendations suggesting that under the right circumstances, welfare agencies can become catalysts for change on behalf of children, both by expanding their own services and by reaching out to other agencies in the community. The extensive recommendations for making the welfare system a source of support and early attention to children and families offer practical insights for advocates, policy makers, and public officials at the national, state, and community levels. The recommendations also provide a source of ideas for advocates, researchers, and policy makers who want to point other large public bureaucracies towards services that are integrated, comprehensive, and responsive to families and to encourage collaboration in a form that will truly make a difference in the daily lives and experiences of poor families. This book shows how to make a start on this necessary, although challenging, effort.

Out of the Woods: Tales of Resilient Teens (Adolescent Lives)

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Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They're not just failing in school, not just using drugs. They are out of control--violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Their futures are at risk.

Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. But astonishingly, a handful are thriving. They're off drugs and on the right side of the law. They've finished school and hold jobs that matter to them. They have close friends and are responsible, loving parents.

What happened? How did some kids stumble out of the woods while others remain lost? Could their strikingly different futures have been predicted back during their teenage struggles? The kids provide the answers in a series of interviews that began during their hospitalizations and ended years later. Even in the early days, the resilient kids had a grasp of how they contributed to their own troubles. They tried to make sense of their experience and they groped toward an understanding of other people's inner lives.

In their own impatient voices, Out of the Woods portrays edgy teenagers developing into thoughtful, responsible adults. Listening in on interviews through the years, narratives that are often poignant, sometimes dramatic, frequently funny, we hear the kids growing into more composed--yet always recognizable--versions of their tough and feisty selves.

Customer Reviews:

High Valley Ascensions .......2007-04-14

It's a dangerous world. We need to study risk factors and pay attention to the things that can go wrong. But that can't be the whole story. Without a little balance, parents will succumb to learned helplessness and clinicians will surrender to burnout. We need to remember that most parenting is good-enough parenting, and there are plenty of examples of kids who overcome truly horrific situations. In addition to asking what is bad for kids, we should also be asking what characteristics promote resilience. While some people ultimately surrender to difficult circumstances, others seem to have qualities that allow them to overcome adversity. We can talk in broad terms. Abuse is bad. Neglect is bad. Poverty, racism, social injustice, illness, loss of a parent, clueless parents. All bad. The absence of those risk factors is good. Having a lot of competent adults in your life who genuinely care about you is good. But the actual real life way in which internal and environmental factors interact to create resilience is a mystery. Lots of kids grow up in pretty tough circumstances and they don't all turn out the same, just as the kids who start off with all the advantages don't all turn out the same.

Dr. Hauser began with a follow-up study of people who were psychiatrically hospitalized as adolescents. What we are presented with here are the narratives of a sample of individuals who are doing well now. Coming from an Anthropology background, I have a fondness for personal narratives, but I acknowledge that they can feel like something off the softest end of the `soft-science' continuum. However, at this stage of the game, this is an appropriate and useful way to explore the topic. We don't have the sophistication yet to reduce personal histories to crunchable variables (actually, there are quantitative analyses from the same data sets that produced this book. You can search out those results if that's more your thing, and there's a lot more analysis yet to be mined from this data set). In a sense, the narrative approach is a more helpful way to understand the phenomenon of resilience, since resilience itself may have more to do with the myths people make of their lives than with any particular contortions of vectors and eigenvalues. Narratives give us people's lives in the context in which they frame it. And it is this very ability to coherently develop your history into a good story that, depending on your point of view, either reflects or accounts for successful acclimation to adversity.

It is in this sense that Dr. Hauser and his gang have done a great service in presenting these tales of resilience in a way that makes them both satisfying tales to read as well as fertile ground for generating hypotheses about how resilience emergences from adversity.

It's good to be realistic but it is important to not lose sight of the positive things. The stories here are inspirational and at times quite moving. For struggling parents, as well as for clinicians fighting to stay hopeful as they tread through their caseloads and today's headlines, this book is a refreshing treat. The medical model, in particular, trains us to view the world in terms of pathology, so it is important to step back from time to time and view the world from the perspective of mental health as opposed to mental illness. Most importantly, as the phenomenon of resilience is further explored and better understood, it will without doubt contribute to better preventative approaches to mental illness.

How do successful teens make sense of adversity?.......2007-01-24

I work in Child Protective Services with families who are involved with this system for chronic neglect of their children. This book offers a look at some of the reasons parents rise above their childhood adversity. It offers the positive side of what goes wrong for so many kids as they grow to adulthood. These resilient teens had "connections to competent and caring adults", achieved "cognitive and self-regulation skills, positive views of self, and motivation to be effective in the environment." The authors use the kids' interview narratives, during inpatient and then as adults, to show how different kids make different sense of what happens to them over time, how some used adversity to reflect and make sense out of it and fit them into the context of their lives, and the others' (contrast group's) themes remained "frozen, fossils of childhood explanations that never quite grew up."

Powerful and groundbreaking approach to understanding and helping deeply troubled and damaged adolescents.......2006-08-14

This book is extremely thoughtful and well written and provides an incredibly hopeful and stimulating, if not groundbreaking, view and approach for working with teens in trouble and, perhaps, for giving greater insight and influence to the people who love and/or care for them.

Dr. Hauser's courage in challenging society's practices of discarding kids who don't fit into the most homogenized profiles and production-line approaches to education in America -- which he calls "using adolescence as the great 'tracking' and 'sorting' period" -- is nothing short of inspirational to me. We are far too quick and eager to ostracize and incarcerate anyone who doesn't fit some excessively standardized norm we've defined and/or accepted in our society, and we lose so much of the power and value that diverse ideas and collaborative thought can offer. I believe it to be a documented fact that our institutions are filled with many highly creative and talented souls, and Dr. Hauser's observations, perspectives and theories offer light and hope for helping more of those souls to successfully navigate the paths of their fractured childhoods, by helping them to find and use reflectiveness ("curiosity about one's own thoughts, feelings and motivations"), relatedness ("engagement and interaction with others") and agency ("conviction that what one does matters" and that "one can intervene effectively in one's own life") to overcome their pasts. This book talks about how to look for and nurture these characteristics, which underlie the observed traits of resilience he witnessed in the young people, followed over decades, who proved best equipped to find their way back from the depths, and successfully emerged as valued and contributing members of society.

`Out of the Woods' is a hopeful testament to the critical importance of mental health care and its advocates in and for our society. The ideas that Dr. Hauser and his fellow researchers put forward, for me, seem to question the wisdom of our recent societal movements away from valuing psychological care and intervention, in exchange for increasingly exclusive overuse of our legal and penal systems.

This book truly inspires optimism and hopefulness about the capacity of people to overcome adversity, and to repair dysfunctional childhoods, and not based on gimmicks or psychobabble but on insightful and well founded observations, drawn from the decades-long narratives of damaged teens who found their way out. As a former near-casualty, my heartfelt thanks to you and your team Dr. Hauser!!

A Map for Troubled Teens.......2006-05-16

"Out of the Woods" documents the difficult and sometimes harrowing adolescences of four resilient teens and former residents of the High Valley psychiatric facility. Their stories offer universal lessons for how troubled teens can adapt to and overcome adversity to lead successful, happy adult lives.

The first chapter introduces the idea of resilience and asks the question of how some teens manage to overcome deeply troubled teen years to reach adulthood relatively intact and function successfully in the adult world while others seem unable to find a path "out of the woods." Some face a more difficult task than others, but even the most disadvantaged can overcome seemingly impossible odds, while others who have almost everything they need, including stable, loving homes and a safe, supportive environment, can find themselves in a nightmare of violence, depression, and drugs. These extremes demonstrate that factors within the individual are as important, if not more so, as external factors, in coping with adversity and securing a more hopeful future.

Before getting to the interviews with the four individuals who make up the heart of the book, the authors explain their motives and methodologies behind their longitudinal study of 70 individuals, all of whom were under 15 when they were institutionalized in the locked psychiatric ward of High Valley. The researchers explain how their psychoanalytic and therapeutic approach in their search for adaptive mechanisms led them to answers from interviews with the teens themselves, the most resilient of whom accepted their own share of responsibility for their situations as they attempted to understand their experiences and empathize with those whom their behavior affected.

Each of the next four chapters tells the story of a resilient individual in his or her own words from interviews spanning many years. While each life appears different in the details, their common success in finding ways out of the woods of their troubled pasts leads the researchers to identify three common elements crucial for resilience: acceptance of personal agency in overcoming adversity, the ability for honest and objective self-reflection, and a sincere commitment and dedication to other people and relationships.

I identified with each of these teens in my own, particular way. I remember when my mother would punish me for biting the nanny, even though the nanny was mine to do with as I pleased. And then there was my tenth birthday, when my parents got me a Shetland pony rather than the Dartmoor pony I wanted. The worst may have been my sixteenth birthday, when I specifically told my parents that I wanted a Porsche 911 type 996 GT3, but they tried to buy me off with a stupid Boxster instead and ended up embarrassing me in front of all my friends. I could go on about my parents' abuses, but I am slowly learning to put all that horror into proper perspective. I am using the lessons from this book, exercising my personal agency by taking control of my trust fund, reflecting upon and dealing with past traumas with the help of the best doctors and pharmaceuticals, and committing myself to the people that matter most to me, especially my publicist, stylist, and personal assistant.

Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Counseling (3rd Edition)

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Only buy if required reading

Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Counseling (3rd Edition)
Larry Golden
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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This award-winning book presents a realistic picture of therapy's rewards and challenges through sixteen actual cases involving children and adolescents. Readers are exposed to a variety of counseling theories and the real, live counselors who use them. The cases deal with major problem areas such as sexual abuse, dual diagnoses, seriously dysfunctional families, and addictions. A five-part organization of each case covers: an introduction that discusses the presenting problem and background information about the client; conceptualization of therapeutic goals and strategies; process descriptions of actual client contacts (it explains what happened in sessions and how the therapist's relationship with the client changed over time); outcome sections describing the result of the work done between therapist and client; and discussion explanations of what the author/therapist might have done differently. In addition, the author describes his or her personal and professional growth that resulted from this encounter with a troubled youngster. For child and adolescent counselors beginning their journey as therapists.

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Only buy if required reading.......2007-05-25

I wouldn't have purchased this book if it wasn't required for a child/adolescent therapy class...not really worth the money. There are better books with case studies out there, such as "The Playing Cure" by Kaudson.

Child of the Hunt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

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big big buffy fan
Great story!
Best Buffy Book Ever!
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GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!

Child of the Hunt (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Christopher Golden , and Nancy Holder
Manufacturer: Simon Spotlight Entertainment
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EVIL THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES

Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars...a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but Buffy and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester.

Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not the only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh: the dark faerie. They are minions of the Wild Hunt, servants of the evil Erl King.

Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human...and destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary.

Customer Reviews:

big big buffy fan.......2005-04-02

does anybody else get why this book gets two diffrent covers? the one shown here (brown with xander, buffy and angel) and the one with buffy and a demon? their both about the fair.... so someone please explain.... AND is there any other buffy the vampire slayer books with altertive covers?
if you like "little things" the buffy book with spike of the cover, you must be a dark faerie fan so you'll love this book
p.s chistopher golded and nancy holder rock, buy anything with there names on
love ya D

Great story!.......2004-01-25

I was skeptical about reading any book based on a TV show, but this one was very well-thought out. The characters stayed true to their television depictions in a whole new and very interesting story. I recommend this for any Buffy fan.

Best Buffy Book Ever!.......2003-11-23

This was my first Buffy the Vampire Slayer Book. I read it before I even watched the show, the plot just seemed good to me so I bought it, and little did I know I was about to become a Buffy Fanatic. It starts off with Buffy and this hunt that goes through the town and they take people capture. All the rest I can say is "WOW" I'd give this book 10 stars if I could. Even if you are not a fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer Book you should pick this one up.

P.S. Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder are the best Buffy writers in the series.

Show me, don't tell me.......2003-07-08

Not a bad novel, but far from being a great one. Mr Golden and Ms. Holder have a decent grasp on the Buffyverse (though, given their expertise, far too many errors still creep in). My biggest gripe here is with the writing style. Many things in the book are simply described. We are told about what happened rather than seeing them played out in a scene. This should virtually never happen in any novel.

Perhaps I have standards that are set too high, but I never see the fact that a novel is a media tie-in as an excuse for lazy writing.

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!.......2003-06-03

I am a HUGE fan of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. I have been since the first episode aired 7 years ago. I'm so sad that it's over but atleast there are still many buffy novels for me to read. Child of the Hunt was the first Buffy Novel I read. And I read it 5 TIMES!! I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

Baby Bear's Chairs (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))

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Baby Bear's Chairs (Golden Kite Awards (Awards))
Jane Yolen
Manufacturer: Gulliver Books
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Baby Bear is the littlest bear in his family, and sometimes that's not so easy. Mama and Papa Bear get to stay up late in their great big chairs. Big brother gets to play fun games in his middle-sized chair. And Baby Bear only seems to cause trouble in his own tiny chair. But at the end of the day, he finds the one perfect chair that's comfier and cozier than all the rest.

Bestselling author Jane Yolen and popular illustrator Melissa Sweet have come together to create a lyrical bedtime tale about a baby bear trying to find his place in a family. With a playful rhyming text and adorable, fun illustrations, here is a book for parents and their own baby bears to treasure.

Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Need to Teach Their Children

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Beautiful book, teach parents values too!
A Manual For Success
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Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Teach

Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Need to Teach Their Children
Wayne D. Dosick
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What and how we teach our children is fundamental, but how we model what we teach is critical. Children watch, listen, and learn from our example. Wayne Dosick provides parents with the ten golden rules that teach their children respect, honesty, fairness, responsibility, compassion, gratitude, friendship, peace, maturity, and faith.

Customer Reviews:

Beautiful book, teach parents values too!.......2005-06-01

The stories selected in this book to demonstrate the values are so appealing to young children at school age. My kids read them long time ago but still remember and talk about the value they learned from the stories in this book. It really a good reminder for us parents too to keep these values!

A Manual For Success.......2001-11-21

I had the golden opportunity to hear Rabbi Dosick, give a lecture several years ago at Temple Bet Breira in Miami for their annual "Scholars in Residence" Week. Rabbi Dosick touched upon several things as it relates to this informative book about parenting. Golden Rules is not a preachy, rigid stance but a personal, yet provocative approach that parents can take to show their children how they are an important part of the world society and how their contribution can provide a means to help the less fortunate. One walks away from this book with a somber sense that our respect of God is determined by how much we're devoted to service.

Good for every soul.......2001-01-22

This is an amazing book for children of all ages! We all need to be reminded of these ethical values and Rabbi Dosick gives hundreds of parables which come to mind each day as we do our daily duties. Along with the parables, each chapter ends with a story to read with your children and age appropriate questions for discussion. My children love listening to the parables and my six year old son remembers them and talks to me about them when he see's their application in his little life. I highly recommend this book!

One of the Best.......2000-07-09

One of the best books I've read regarding ethics and values. Rabbi Dosick guides one on how to instill values into our children through activities and traditions. He is never self-righteous like most other writers putting out books on morals and values, and his book is an easy read. In our era of moral decline, Rabbi Dosick has come up with a very important book. Plus, the Lumies and great. I work on them daily with my son.

Golden Rules: The Ten Ethical Values Parents Teach.......2000-03-30

Wayne Dosick has provided a very important work for helping parents to key in on important issues for child rearing. Many books identify the contributors of children's moral problems but Dosick tells us what to do about these problems. He answers important questions about the importance of the family and a parents role in childrearing. This is an important work. I work with children daily that I only wish the parents would have followed a few of the important values Dosick has provided. My recommendation is that parents with young children should read this book before problems begin. It is well worth your time and effort.

Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard Film Studies)

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Child of Paradise: Marcel Carne and the Golden Age of French Cinema (Harvard Film Studies)
Edward Turk
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Yesteryear's Child: Golden Days and Summer Nights

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Good job Grandma!
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Snapshot of a girl growing up in a small town 100 years ago.

Yesteryear's Child: Golden Days and Summer Nights
Phoebe L. Westwood
Manufacturer: Heritage West Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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This captivating memoir of growing up in the first years of the twentieth century provides a window on a time past--a time before television and space travel, before radio, women's suffrage, and penicillin. Outdoor privies were being replaced by indoor plumbing; horse-drawn carriages shared the dusty roads with the first automobiles and the earliest telephone numbers were single digits. In the tradition of such personal memoirs as "Cheaper by the Dozen" and "I Remember Mama," this delightful tale will evoke memories in the old and wonder in the young.

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Good job Grandma!.......2003-10-11

This is the story of my great-grandmother for whom I was named. When I was a fifth grader I read the book and I enjoyed it. It was interesting to see that even though the years seperated us, we really have similarities.

Great Read.......1999-05-09

This book was great for info about the days gone by! If ever you wondered how they dealt with things then, this is perfect. I especially liked it because it took place where I live, Oroville California. ( a very small town.... )

Snapshot of a girl growing up in a small town 100 years ago........1998-05-14

This is abook well worth reading. It is about how life 100 years ago in small California town affected a girl who grew up from 1896-1914 when she left home to attend the University of California, Berkeley to major in science. Phoebe Westwood was a second generation Californian. Her family were basically English/Scottish.

The author talks about various subjects, food, work week for women, health, femanine hygiene, education, and much more.

In this book the voice of the young girl is never lost.

Yesteryear's Child is now on the suggested reading list for California schools in California History.

A must read for anyone interested in a woman's point of view about life 100 years ago.

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