Children first : what our society must do - and is not doing - for our children today

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Children first : what our society must do - and is not doing - for our children today

Penelope Leach

Penguin, 1994

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The author's book "Baby and Child" illuminates children's points of view for millions of parents. In this book she exposes what she considers the failure of Western societies to be child- and parent-friendly and argues for a new social, political and economic priority for children.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Parents and society: people, profits and parenting. Part 2 Children and parents: mother, father or parent?
  • getting started
  • daycare - dreams and nightmares
  • growing up takes time
  • discipline, self-discipline and learning how to behave
  • the pre-school tears - learning and lessons, education and school
  • 7-up - the years we ignore. Part 3 Putting children first: new approaches to poverty and privilege
  • new approaches to human rights for children
  • new approaches to working and caring
  • new approaches to practical parenting.

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  • NCID
    BA24916586
  • ISBN
    • 0140238123
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Harmondsworth, Middlesex
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvii, 302 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
  • Classification
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