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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Age groups
You know you're having a senior moment when you decide it's time to
pull up your socks - and realize you forgot to put any on! Age is
just a number and you're only as old as you feel, but if you're
heading into your golden years and you're certifiably "no spring
chicken", you might benefit from browsing through the pages of this
tongue-in-cheek book to help you decide if your marbles just need a
polish or you've well and truly lost them! Inside you'll find
examples of classic "senior moments", such as: Ringing a friend to
ask them for their phone number. Getting annoyed at the fact that
your all-in-one remote won't open your garage door. Going to the
store for milk and coming home with a new dog collar, rawl plugs,
some plant pots that were on special offer... but no milk. Feeling
frustrated by your computer's instructions to "press any key", when
there's no "Any" key on your keyboard. With a sprinkling of
reassuring quotes from fellow old-timers, this collection will help
you see the funny side of getting older (but not necessarily
wiser).
"Relax The horror stories you have heard about adolescence are
false."
This is Dr. Laurence Steinberg's reassuring message to parents in
this newly revised edition of his classic book "You and Your
Adolescent," which "Publishers Weekly "says is "filled with solid
advice for the parents of adolescents." Among the new topics in
this updated edition:
* An expanded definition of adolescence to age 25, recognizing that
college graduates often remain dependent on their parents for an
extended period, creating a new parent-child dynamic
* A discussion of social media that addresses whether parents of
preteens and young teens should monitor use of these new
communication tools
* What new research into the adolescent brain tells us about
teenage behavior
As Dr. Steinberg writes, "Most books written for parents of
teenagers were survival guides (many still are). Nowadays,
adolescence is too long--15 years in some families--for mere
survival. Knowledge, not fortitude, is what today's parents need.
That's where this book comes in."
Mortality, With Friends is a collection of lyrical essays from
Fleda Brown, a writer and caretaker, of her father and sometimes
her husband, who lives with the nagging uneasiness that her cancer
could return. Memoir in feel, the book muses on the nature of art,
of sculpture, of the loss of bees and trees, the end of marriages,
and among other things, the loss of hearing and of life itself.
Containing twenty-two essays, Mortality, With Friends follows the
cascade of loss with the author's imminent joy in opening a path to
track her own growing awareness and wisdom. In ""Donna,"" Brown
examines a childhood friendship and questions the roles we need to
play in each other's lives to shape who we might become. In
""Native Bees,"" Brown expertly weaves together the threads of a
difficult family tradition intended to incite happiness with the
harsh reality of current events. In ""Fingernails, Toenails,"" she
marvels at the attention and suffering that accompanies caring for
our aging bodies. In ""Mortality, with Friends,"" Brown dives into
the practical and stupefying response to her own cancer and
survival. In ""2019: Becoming Mrs. Ramsay,"" she remembers the
ghosts of her family and the strident image of herself, positioned
in front of her Northern Michigan cottage. Comparable to Lia
Purpura's essays in their density and poetics, Brown's intent is to
look closely, to stay with the moment and the image. Readers with a
fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the
beauty of this collection.
Senior adult ministry isn't what it used to be. The comfortable
assumptions and outdated programs that were the basis for local
church ministry are being challenged. Baby boomers are hitting
middle age and retirement. And their own parents are living longer.
Authors Win and Charles Arn have updated and supplemented Catch the
Age Wave with ideas, examples and advice to help the local church
leader start and maintain a senior adult program. In addition, they
have added practical program ideas to use in any local church
setting. New challenges for a new day. Catch the Age Wave won't let
you miss the boat.
In 1963, Betty Friedan's transcendent work, The Feminine Mystique,
changed forever the way women thought about themselves and the way
society thought about women. In 1993, with The Fountain of Age,
Friedan changes forever the way all of us, men and women, think
about ourselves as we grow older and the way society thinks about
aging. Struggling to hold on to the illusion of youth, we have
denied the reality and evaded the new triumphs of growing older. We
have seen age only as decline. In this powerful and very personal
book, which may prove even more liberating than The Feminine
Mystique, Betty Friedan charts her own voyage of discovery, and
that of others, into a different kind of aging. She finds ordinary
men and women, moving into their fifties, sixties, seventies,
discovering extraordinary new possibilities of intimacy and
purpose. In their surprising experiences, Friedan first glimpsed,
then embraced, the idea that one can grow and evolve throughout
life in a style that dramatically mitigates the expectation of
decline and opens the way to a further dimension of "personhood."
The Fountain of Age suggests new possibilities for every one of us,
all founded on a solid body of startling but little-known
scientific evidence. It demolishes those myths that have
constrained us for too long and offers compelling alternatives for
living one's age as a unique, exuberant time of life, on its own
authentic terms. Age as adventure! In these pages, film producers
and beauticians, salespersons and college professors, union
veterans and business tycoons, former (and forever) housewives,
male and female empty-nesters and retirees, have crossed the chasm
of age... and kept going. They have foundfulfillment beyond career,
bonding that transcends youthful dreams of happily-ever-after, and
a richer, sweeter intimacy not tied to mechanical measures of
sexual activity, but to deep and honest sharing. While
gerontologists focus on care, illness, and the concept of age as
deterio
A precise scientific exploration of the differences between boys
and girls that breaks down damaging gender stereotypes and offers
practical guidance for parents and educators.
In the past decade, we've come to accept certain ideas about the
differences between males and females--that boys can't focus in a
classroom, for instance, and that girls are obsessed with
relationships. In Pink Brain, Blue Brain, neuroscientist Lise Eliot
turns that thinking on its head. Calling on years of exhaustive
research and her own work in the field of neuroplasticity, Eliot
argues that infant brains are so malleable that small differences
at birth become amplified over time, as parents and teachers--and
the culture at large--unwittingly reinforce gender stereotypes.
Children themselves intensify the differences by playing to their
modest strengths. They constantly exercise those "ball-throwing" or
"doll-cuddling" circuits, rarely straying from their comfort zones.
But this, says Eliot, is just what they need to do, and she offers
parents and teachers concrete ways to help. Boys are not, in fact,
"better at math" but at certain kinds of spatial reasoning. Girls
are not naturally more empathetic; they're allowed to express their
feelings. By appreciating how sex differences emerge--rather than
assuming them to be fixed biological facts--we can help all
children reach their fullest potential, close the troubling gaps
between boys and girls, and ultimately end the gender wars that
currently divide us.
Population ageing poses a huge challenge to law and society,
carrying important structural and institutional implications. This
book portrays elder law as an emerging research discipline in the
European setting in terms of both conceptual and theoretical
perspectives as well as elements of the law. Providing a deepened
understanding of population ageing in terms of vulnerability,
intergenerational conflict and solidarity, expert contributors
highlight the necessity for a contextualized ageing concept. As
well as offering a comparative analysis of active ageing policies
across the EU, this book examines a range of topics including age
discrimination in employment and the freedom of movement of EU
citizens from the ageing individual's point of view. It also goes
on to describe elder care developments, discussing the ageing
individual's autonomy in relation to both traditional inheritance
rights and growing instances of dementia. Timely and engaging, this
book will appeal to academic scholars and students in relevant
areas of law as well as those studying across the social sciences.
Exploring a broad range of socio-legal issues in relation to
demographic ageing, it will also inform legal practitioners and
policymakers alike. Contributors include: M. Axmin, A. Blackham, C.
Brokelind, J. Fudge, E. Holm, A. Inghammar, M. Katzin, M. Kullmann,
T. Mattsson, P. Norberg, A. Numhauser-Henning, H. Pettersson, M.
Roennmar, E. Ryrstedt, K. Scott, E. Trolle OEnnerfors, C.
Ulander-Wanman, J.J. Votinius, A. Zbyszewska
Offering suggestions to correct the dehumanization of African
American children, this book explains how to ensure that African
American boys grow up to be strong, committed, and responsible
African American men.
Technology is rapidly advancing, and each innovation provides
opportunities for such technology to mesh with the human enactment
of physical intimacy or to be used in the quest for information
about sexuality. However, the availability of this technology has
complicated sexual decision making for young adults as they
continually navigate their sexual identity, orientation, behavior,
and community. Young Adult Sexuality in the Digital Age is a
pivotal reference source that improves the understanding of the
combination of technology and sexual decision making for young
adults, examining the role of technology in sexual identity
formation, sexual communication, relationship formation and
dissolution, and sexual learning and online sexual communities and
activism. While highlighting topics such as privacy management,
cyber intimacy, and digital communications, this book is ideally
designed for therapists, social workers, sociologists,
psychologists, counselors, healthcare professionals, scholars,
researchers, and students.
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