Boyhood used to be a time of liberation and fun -- of catching bullfrogs, playing tackle football, and roaming the woods -- but not any more. Rambunctious, spirited boys (healthy boys) nowadays face an increasingly hostile world that doesn't value the unique gifts of boys, that discounts their masculine virtues, and that undermines what boys need to become mature, confident, thoughtful men.
More needed than ever in these times of war and liberal self-doubt, Lynne Cheney's America: A Patriotic Primer is an alphabet primer in which A is for America and B is for "the Birthday of this country of ours"! Exuberantly illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser, this book takes your kids on a whirlwind tour through the alphabet to teach them the history, values, tenacity, and faith of the American people. read more
. . . full of old-fashioned fun and friendship and virtue. No wonder that for 60 years young girls have been reading and rereading these four delightful Betsy-Tacy stories. Now your daughters can do the same. But don’t forget yourself. Did you miss these way back when? Is it time to revive some old memories? Reading these stories aloud to your girls could be the perfect way. In fact, that’s how the series got started. read more
Over the past few decades, as our nation's divorce rate has skyrocketed (almost one in two first marriages now end in divorce), a divorce "happy talk" industry has sprung up to stress the alleged positive effects of divorce on all involved. But rarely do we hear about the real and lasting negative effects divorce has, especially on the approximately one million children whose parents divorce each year. Now, in Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, Elizabeth Marquardt draws on the findings of her own pioneering nationwide study of children of divorce to reveal, in shocking detail, how divorce dramatically warps the inner lives of children.
Ever since Walter R. Brooks created Freddy back in 1927, this resourceful pig has been beloved by kids and parents alike. In Brooks' series of wry and winsome adventures, Freddy assumes an amazing number of vocations and avocations, leads his band of talking animals through marvelous adventures, and always provides hours of good fun for young readers read more
In these days when even the dolls in suburban toy stores are dressed like strippers ... when mainstream clothing retailers market thongs to pre-teen girls ... when homemade sex tapes have become star-making vehicles for the likes of Paris Hilton ... it might seem that the powerful forces arrayed against the chastity and innocence of American girls have finally and irreversibly triumphed. But, just when all seems bleakest, resistance is coming
from an unexpected quarter: the girls themselves. Now, in Wendy Shalit's Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good, you can hear the voices at the frontlines of this emerging new
movement.
In this handy guide you’ll find all you need to know to make a scientific expedition to the beach (or to a rocky shore, a salt marsh, and more). The author, science professor Elizabeth Lawlor, is completely practical: along with guidelines about what to take along in order to perform mini-scientific experiments right at the beach, she includes advice about how to dress and other ways you can be prepared for anything that might arise.
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A generation ago Americans undertook a revolutionary experiment to redefine marriage. Where historically men and women had sought a permanent bond centered on the rearing of children,the new arrangement called for a provisional union of two adults centered on themselves. Now,as Kay Hymowitz argues in Marriage and Caste in America,the results of this experiment separating marriage from child-rearing are in,and they turn out to be bad news not only for children but also,in ways little understood,for the country as a whole -- playing a central role in high rates of poverty,crime,and other social pathologies. read more
Morning had fallen on a modest stable just outside Jerusalem, where Hannibal and his friends live. Suddenly, excitement fills the place as a kindly stranger arrives. read more
First published over fifty years ago, How to Raise Good Catholic Children is an enduringly wise and readable book on child care that derives its wisdom from the Catholic home rather than from psychologists. Author Mary Reed Newland here draws on her own experiences as the mother of seven to show how the classic Christian principles of sanctity can be translated into terms easily applied to children --- even to the very young! And because it's rooted in experience, not in theory, nothing that Mrs. Newland suggests is impossible or extraordinary. read more
Today's parents: intimidated by "experts." Afraid to make moral judgments on their children's behavior. Desperate to praise and "affirm" their children no matter what they do. Criticism? Discipline? Forget it. Exercising a guiding role in their kids' lives? Inconceivable. Parents do this because they have accepted the dogma that this is the only way to make their kids happy. But in It Takes A Parent, syndicated columnist and veteran mom Betsy Hart argues that this all-pervasive hands-off approach to our nation's children has been an unmitigated disaster. She proves here that all it has done is create legions of helpless, wayward, and often violent children and teens -- as well as untold numbers of miserable moms and dads.
After more than twenty years of counseling girls, she knows that fathers, more than anyone else, set the course for their daughters' lives. Now, she shows you how to strengthen -- or rebuild - your bond with your daughter, and use it to shape her life, and yours, for the better.
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Did you know that 8,000 American teens are diagnosed with a sexually-transmitted disease (STD) every day? That 46% of girls are likely to become infected with a disease after their very first sexual encounter. That, right now, one out of every five adolescents is living with an STD? Your Kids at Risk breaks the story that STDs among adolescents has indeed reached epidemic proportions, and is leaving our kids open to deadly infections, infertility and cancer. Dr. Meeker, who has spent the past 20 years practicing pediatric and adolescent medicine and counseling teens, uncovers the facts about this grave health crisis, and the powerful political and other interests that continue to make it worse.
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Have your children ever wondered how the early settlers of America lived? Now they can discover what life was like before modern cities. 10 early settlements are highlighted with an in-depth look the lives of settlers. Each profile includes color photos, maps, and historical facts. read more
Modern education has severed its vital connection to
the past. Today's educators reject the importance of
preparing our next generation to enter the great classical
conversations of history because they no longer believe
there is a core body of knowledge common to man. Result?
Personal opinion has trumped universal truth, expediency
has molested goodness, and edginess has shoved aside
beauty. Solution? A return to the historically successful
model of rigorous, classical education. Now, in The Core:
Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education,
Leigh A. Bortins shows parents how to apply the foundations
of classical learning either in home schooling or as a
supplement to classroom-oriented education.
"Laura Ingalls Wilder saved nearly every scrap of paper she ever wrote on," notes William Anderson. She was not a diary-keeper, but "from the little cabin in the woods of Wisconsin to her death at the age of ninety, there was seldom a time that Laura was not exploring the world around her through words." read more
Jam-packed with firsthand narratives, diary entries, personal letters, and patriotic songs and poems, the "Source-Readers in American History" series truly lives up to its ambitious title. Originally published at the turn of the century as a 4-volume set, here, back in print and available to Club members ONLY are volumes 3 & 4: How Our Grandfathers Lived and The Romance of the Civil War.
To read Esther Forbes’ 1943 Newbery Award Winner is to live through two dramatic years of our country’s history—and to see great events from a new angle, through the eyes of an observant young boy. No wonder it is considered one of the finest historical novels ever written for children. read more
