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Kathleen Berger's breakthrough text tells a compelling story of
life-span development via a topically organised approach. As always
with Berger, her text is distinguished by an engaging narrative
voice, wide-ranging cultural perspective, up-to-date research, and
an emphasis on relating universal themes to students' own lives.
This edition is also available with LaunchPad which offers a
variety of engaging activities including: * Data Connections: From
interactive maps showing rates of breastfeeding and immunization,
to manipulatable graphs showing trends in adolescent risk-taking
behaviours, this feature lets students take a hands-on approach to
understanding the data in life-span development themselves. *
Visualizing Development: These assessments link together graphics,
text, and photographs to tell a visual story about an important
concept in life-span development. * Developing Lives: Loaded with
interactive features and pedagogy, this remarkable online
experience asks students to "raise" a virtual child through the
teenage years, making crucial decisions and responding to events.
LaunchPad also combines an interactive e-book with high-quality
multimedia content and activities, including interactive tutorials,
videos, and the LearningCurve adaptive quizzing system.
Kathleen Berger's acclaimed introduction to childhood and
adolescence development weaves together classic and cutting-edge
research, contemporary topics (especially neuroscience and
culture), and relatable real stories and personal experiences.
LaunchPad for the text offers additional ways to engage students,
including Data Connections, which lets students explore the data
behind high-impact research; and Developing Lives, an interactive
online experience in which students "raise" a virtual child through
adolescence.
Contemporary grandmothers are often marginalized from extended
family life because social institutions and grandmothers themselves
do not understand that they could be vital for working parents, for
overactive children, for suicidal youth, indeed for many of the
problems of modern grandchildren. The genetics and hormones of
older women have designed them to be vital family members, with
patience and perspective that come with age and experience. In
addition, biology helps directly via menopause. The grandmother
hypothesis explains that human women, unlike almost any other
living creature, experience decades of life after menopause, in
order to make grandmothers available to their descendants. Here,
Kathleen Berger explores he role of grandmothers in the lives of
their grandchildren. She uses real life examples to illustrate how
grandmothers can best integrate themselves into the lives of their
children’s families without overstepping. She explores the
particular needs of each stage of childhood as they relate to
grandmother involvement and input. Before a child is born,
grandmothers need to attend to building a strong relationship with
the future parents. In infancy, attachment and feeding are crucial.
In early childhood, grandmothers need to follow the parent’s
lead, remembering that a parental alliance is essential. In
childhood, children need to be safe but not isolated, and both
bullies and victims benefit from a grandmother’s support and
assistance. In adolescence and emerging adulthood, grandmothers
need to build direct connections and not avoid the difficult topics
of sex, drugs, death, disease, and money. Throughout, elders need
to learn technology, insuring that it fosters, not impedes
relationships. Problems in relationships are explained honestly and
with insight. Among these are issues when three generations share a
home, when parents get divorced, and when grandchildren rebel
against parental authority. Throughout the work, both the joy and
the complications of effective grandmothering are described.
Whether you’re a biological grandmother, a trusted
step-grandmother, or just a warm and trusted older woman with young
ones in your life, you can be a vital force in the lives of future
generations.
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