children and adults

Examines the effects of parents and home experience on the life and behavior of young people, discussing such aspects as genetics, environment, learning, intelligence, moral attitudes, character building, friends, higher education, and job choices.

Presents suggestions for creating a more healthy, supportive culture by connecting with children at six levels of community: the personal circle, families, neighborhoods, larger communities, business worlds, and elders.

Practical strategies designed for developing a high-quality early childhood program including information on phonemic awareness, preschool reading, family involvement, team planning, language and literacy, and social relations.

Contrasts the behavior and activities of children and grownups, in such areas as eating, selection of television programs, and sleeping.

A history of children in England from 1880 to 1990, looking at ideas concerning children and childhood in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods, and discussing the parent-child relationship, social policies involving children, the connections between children, schooling, and the classroom, and children's leisure.

Jamie begins to wonder if adults lose their sense of humor when they get older after noticing that her social studies teacher, Mr. VanDoy, never smiles.