Conversations
How to Have Intelligent and Creative Conversations with Your Kids
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Healy’s combination of hard scientific evidence about the effect of creative conversation on a child’s developing brain and her lighthearted exercises to encourage it have made this an instant classic, an invaluable resource for both parents and educators…. More >>
Conversations About Illness: Family Preoccupations With Bulimia
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The grandmother granddaughter conversation examined in this book makes explicit what the detailed study of interaction reveals about two social problems–”bulimia” and “grandparent caregiving.” For the first time, systematic attention is given to interactional activities through which family members display ordinary yet contradictory concerns about health and illness:
* a grandmother’s (who is also a registered nurse) attempts to initiate, confront, and remedy h… More >>