Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a re...
Ten years ago one of America's most important public figures, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, chronicled her quest both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public to help make our society into the kind of village that enables children to become able, caring resilient adults. IT TAKES A VILLAGE is a textbook for caring, filled with truths that are worth a read, and a reread. In her substantial new introduction, Senator Clinton reflects on how our village has changed over the last decade, from the internet to education, and on how her own understanding of children has deepened as she has watched Chelsea grow up and take on challenges new to her generation, from a first job to living through a terrorist attack. She discusses how the work she is doing in the Senate is helping children and looks at where America has been successful, improvements in the foster care system and support for adoption, and where there is still work to be done, providing pre-school programmes and universal health care to all our children. This new edition elucidates how the choices we make about how we raise our children, and how we support families, will determine how all nations will face the challenges of this century.
One of the striking differences international studies have repeatedly turned up between American parents and students and their counterparts in other countries, particularly in Asia, is the greater weight our culture currently gives to innate ability, as opposed to effort, in academic success. I don’t know all the reasons for this preoccupation, which seems to be linked to an obsession with IQ tests and other means of labeling people, but some possible explanations are not particularly flattering to us. Believing in innate ability is a handy excuse for us. Too tired to read to a child or enforce rules on TV-watching or phone use? Too preoccupied to seek out extra help for a child who needs more practice with math or a foreign language? Why bother, if none of that really makes much of a dif... (查看原文)
In 1994, the Long Beach School District in California became the first district in the nation to mandate uniforms for its elementary and middle school students. That year, school violence decreased to half the rates of the previous year. (查看原文)
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我竟然看了一本现代养娃指南（政府在养娃方面应该承担的义务大全）。为毛大人们计划假期比计划家庭更上心，对妇女儿童的健康和well-being能无视就无视？因为妇女们没钱没权没声儿呗。BTW，米国治疗离婚率的方法是让丈夫们承担更多的家庭责任，而不是逼妻子们“忍忍就好”（家暴0容忍）
0 有用 蘑菇精 2018-05-02 22:55:08
泛泛而谈，不精彩
0 有用 蘑菇精 2018-05-02 22:55:08
泛泛而谈，不精彩
0 有用 372 2017-07-22 05:50:28
我竟然看了一本现代养娃指南（政府在养娃方面应该承担的义务大全）。为毛大人们计划假期比计划家庭更上心，对妇女儿童的健康和well-being能无视就无视？因为妇女们没钱没权没声儿呗。BTW，米国治疗离婚率的方法是让丈夫们承担更多的家庭责任，而不是逼妻子们“忍忍就好”（家暴0容忍）