Author: Andrea Hofer ProudfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
A Year with the Mother-play
Author: Andrea Hofer ProudfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kindergarten
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Mother's Songs, Games and Stories
Author: Friedrich FröbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Playing on the Mother-ground
Author: David F. LancyPublisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 9781572302150
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Theorists of child development, for the most part, have taken white, middle class, Euro-American children as the norm. These "typical" children, however, are exposed to two major enculturating influences that are by no means common across cultures: formal schooling and parents who consciously attempt to serve as teachers at home. Providing an important contribution toward a more universal understanding of child development, this book concentrates on children of the Kpelle-speaking people of West Africa, who grow up neither spending thousands of hours in quiet study nor receiving a heavy dose of parent tutelage. Acknowledging the centrality of play in children's lives, the Kpelle expect their children to play "on the mother ground," or open spaces adjacent to the areas where adults are likely to be working. Here, children observe the work that adults do as they engage in voluntary activities or "routines" that serve a clear enculturating function. With photographs and vivid first-hand description, the author demonstrates the impact of games, folklore, and other routines on early development among the Kpelle and in other non-Western cultures. He persuasively argues that such enduring routines for raising children as those observed in the Kpelle village are universal and not limited to rural societies, though they take a variety of forms depending on the society. Ethnographically rich and theoretically sophisticated, the book provides a sound empirical foundation for a practice-based theory of child development.
Mother-play and Nursery Songs
Author: Friedrich FröbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's songs
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
My Mother Played the Piano
Author: John William SmithPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1878990756
Category : Meditations
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
If you are already a John William Smith fans, you are eager to read this volume of his refreshing stories of home. If you haven't yet become acquainted with Smith's writing, you will know from the first story why he has become one of America's favorite storytellers.
Mother Plays with Dolls-- and Finds an Important Key to Unlocking Creativity
Author: Elinor Peace BaileyPublisher: Epm Publications Incorporated
ISBN: 9780939009398
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Elinor Bailey. One of the most inventive figures in today's fiber arts, Bailey has developed a way for virtually anyone to break through to his or her innermost self. By using a basic doll pattern and playing with its size, shape, hair, and attire, amateurs and pros alike will produce endlessly imaginative creations.
The Mottoes and Commentaries of Friedrich Froebel's Mother Play
Author: Friedrich FröbelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
The World According to Fannie Davis
Author: Bridgett M. DavisPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316558710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights "the outstanding humanity of black America" (James McBride). In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Davis's mother. Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: "Dying is easy. Living takes guts." A daughter's moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time.
Ask Me Again Tomorrow
Author: Olympia DukakisPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061738174
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Something about Olympia Dukakis just speaks to people. In her signature straight-talk style, she tells the story of her own history and career. Olympia Dukakis, internationally known movie and theater star, was born into a Greek family in Lowell, Massachusetts. As a first generation Greek-American, Olympia “lived in the hyphen” and struggled to reconcile her American desires with her family’s old-world traditions. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW tells the story of Olympia’s struggle to find her place as an American, as a woman and as a star. It specifically explores the relationship between Olympia, whose main ambition was to live her life exactly as she wanted, and her mother, who spent a lifetime constrained by a tradition that delegated her to second class. Like Sidney Poitier’s THIS LIFE and THE MEASURE OF A MAN, this is a book that is more than a celebrity memoir. ASK ME AGAIN TOMORROW will speak to many audiences: readers who also experienced America as an adopted country; readers interested in the art of acting; readers interested in autobiography, and particularly to female readers who have struggled with fitting their own aspirations in with the needs of family. It is a book that will endure.
M.O.M.: Mother of Madness #1 (of 3)
Author: Emilia ClarkePublisher: Image Comics
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Game of Thrones superstar EMILIA CLARKE debuts an EXTRA-LENGTH, THREE-ISSUE MINISERIES! The mayhem begins with Maya, under-the-weather scientist by day, over-the-top superhero by night, and badass single mom 24/7. Deadpool action and Fleabag comedy collide when Maya activates her freakish superpowers to take on a secret sect of human traffickers. Mature readers only! Comedy and chaos await in the first of three 40-page issues by the glamorous artist of Horde, LEILA LEIZ!