- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: Jossey Bass; New Ed edition (22 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0787985910
- ISBN-13: 978-0787985912
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,940,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence––hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder––by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow–Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard– and Tufts–based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.
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Until recently, it was assumed that boys were the primary, if not exclusive, perpetrators of violence. Boys are still primary, but things are changing. There has been a tremendous statistical increase in the incidence of physical violence generated by pubescent and teenage girls, both against one another and occasionally exploding against the rest of the world. This violence will not be confined, as many think, to poor inner–city girls but will reach (just as it did with boys) all kinds of suburban, rural, and urban communities across a broad spectrum of demographics.
Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a groundbreaking book that offers parents and teachers a primer for understanding and preventing the increasing incidents of physical violence––hazing, brutality, fighting, weapons, murder––by young girls. Written by Drs. Deborah Prothrow–Stith and Howard R. Spivak—the renowned Harvard– and Tufts–based experts on preventing youth violence—this important book offers a plan to help our daughters become strong, confident, powerful, and independent young women without being violent.
The book is well grounded in scientific data and filled with illustrative examples of girls’ real–life stories of violence. The stories cover a range of issues and risk factors that focus on girls’ violent and aggressive behavior. Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice offers a plan for creating a girl–oriented approach to preventing violence and answers such questions as
- How is the violent behavior of girls different from that of boys?
- What can parents do to prevent aggressive behavior in girls?
- What can schools and educators do to prevent violent behavior?
- What can communities do to address the issue of violence and girls?
- Is it possible to reverse this trend?
Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice is a call to action for changing our attitudes, improving our parenting skills, confronting our cultural norms and media images, and taking responsibility for all our children. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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A Parents Call
24 Aug 2005
Format:Hardcover
Many experts and famous people support this books: Marian Wright-Edelman, Bill Cosby, Alvin Poussaint etc. but as a parent I want to say this book has helped tremendously. The pain my daughter and I were experiencing together and respectively was enormous. This book was a really helpful step along the long road of healing. It is many tiny hurtful incidents that can leave a large wound. It is from this wounded place that people find their violent selves and lose control. This book helped me understand that and so I understand my situation and daughter better. I treat this situation with a level of understanding and calmness that I never had before. The absence of this often made me verbally violent towards my daughter, only making our situation worse. I thank the authors for calling out a problem that everyone wants to ignore. With or without the support of experts and famous people- as a real person-I can say book gave me tools and hope and combined with other measures has helped create a better life and better for me and my daughter.
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Powerful Read for Those who Teach Girls
23 Aug 2009
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This book is a required text in the Ed.D program at Liberty University. Very interesting read. Easy to understand. Good resources.
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Answers to an eras problem
24 Aug 2005
Format:Hardcover
This book does an excellent job of identifying, articulating and fleshing out a problem that is so ingrained in our culture, that few people realize what a problem it is. Often it is only hindsight that offers the insight that this book gives regarding the toxic levels of violence in our society. Hopefully, this book and books like it will offer a new, more sophisticated and enlightened way for humans to solve problems. Because it is all fun and games until someone loses and eye.
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