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Summary: A wonderful tool to help process the aftermath of youth rage
Review: This book goes a long way in helping our nation process, explain, and anticipate acts of youth violence that we too often (and erroneously) call random. In light of the recent atrocity in Littleton, this book is simply the must-read book of the season.
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Summary: Really good!
Review: This book is great,it does not only inform you but it also makes you think. I have thought of how I've treated people and how hopefully I have not hurt anyone because I know that it might affect someone in the long run. I just hope more people would read this book and learn how important it is to not only hear about your childs day, but actually listen. Sometimes your own kid might have problems at school but you're too busy to pay attention, and when the school calls you to tell you your child has been "bad" you immediately start to think of punishments when you should start thinking of why they were "bad" and if there is anything you can do to help them.
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Summary: Really good!
Review: This book is great,it does not only inform you but it also makes you think. I have thought of how I've treated people and how hopefully I have not hurt anyone because I know that it might affect someone in the long run. I just hope more people would read this book and learn how important it is to not only hear about your childs day, but actually listen. Sometimes your own kid might have problems at school but you're too busy to pay attention, and when the school calls you to tell you your child has been "bad" you immediately start to think of punishments when you should start thinking of why they were "bad" and if there is anything you can do to help them.
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Summary: A must read for parents, healers and all who hope
Review: This book is necessary reading for anyone concerned about today's children. As a Two-Spirit Shaman, an international author (Chi Gung: Chinese Healing, Energy, and Natural Magick by L.V. Carnie), and a Chi Gung master, my life and work are devoted to using prayer and energy in helping heal plants, animals, and people, and books like this offer wonderful insight into today's challenges as well as offering ways that we all can learn to help each other and to learn to hope. With hope, all things are possible. We all need to to learn to love more and to be more aware about what's going on around us and the more we learn about topics we normally might ignore, the better chance we have of making a difference in someone's life. Read this book for yourself, for everyone's children, and for all of our future.
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Summary: Concise analysis of the causes of adolescent violence.
Review: This book provides in its few, short pages, a complete and concise, yet very readable, analysis of the causes of youthful violence and tells what can be done - indeed, what must be done, from earliest childhood on - to prevent it. This book should be required reading by all teachers, court and law enforcement officers, physicians, social workers - by everyone who works with children and adolescents of any age, in any capacity, as well as by all those who make policy and pass legislation at any level of federal, state or local government.
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Summary: FROM THE MOM OF A CHILD NEARLY RUINED BY BEING A VICTIM
Review: This book was a wonderful source of revelations on the reactive behaviour of a child who feels betrayed and abused by the educational system. My two negative comments are : 1... The word Violent in the book should be substituted with the word Traumatized, because violent boys are the result of traumatized boys going without help. The basic behaviour resulting from abuse and terror are the same. 2... I absolutely HATED that damn cover! My children were never even allowed to point toy guns at each other. They were taught that a gun is a tool that can be dangerous if used improperly, the same as a drill, a car, a kitchenknife.
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Summary: FROM THE MOM OF A CHILD NEARLY RUINED BY BEING A VICTIM
Review: This book was a wonderful source of revelations on the reactive behaviour of a child who feels betrayed and abused by the educational system. My two negative comments are : 1... The word Violent in the book should be substituted with the word Traumatized, because violent boys are the result of traumatized boys going without help. The basic behaviour resulting from abuse and terror are the same. 2... I absolutely HATED that damn cover! My children were never even allowed to point toy guns at each other. They were taught that a gun is a tool that can be dangerous if used improperly, the same as a drill, a car, a kitchenknife.
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Summary: An excellent book, though "The Scarred Heart" is better
Review: This is an excellent book, though for my money Helen Smith's "The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids who Kill" is better -- or at least, more likely to be of practical use to teachers, parents, etc. in actually preventing violence. But, really, both books are excellent and anyone seriously interested in the subject will read both.
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Summary: An excellent book, though "The Scarred Heart" is better
Review: This is an excellent book, though for my money Helen Smith's "The Scarred Heart: Understanding and Identifying Kids who Kill" is better -- or at least, more likely to be of practical use to teachers, parents, etc. in actually preventing violence. But, really, both books are excellent and anyone seriously interested in the subject will read both.
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Summary: Nothing new or enlightening
Review: You'll find nothing new in this book; social cues, abuse, cycle of violence, shame, role models, etc. Perhaps it was new news in 1999, but no longer. The author's brain seems to connect items which have nothing to do with each other, and in a judgmental way. See page 151, he makes a severe and inappropriate judgment of a person's reaction to imminent death, and attempts to make an outrageous connection to "being in touch with your soul." Don't waste your money. I'm sure you can find it in a local library and peruse it, but I doubt you'll get much out if it. Unless you're a sheltered Psych 101 student who has never watched the news.
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