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"What do Angela Merkel, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Christine Lagarde, Oprah Winfrey, Sheryl Sandberg, JK Rowling and Beyoncé have in common?" was the headline in the English newspaper The Observer in 2014. "Other than riding high in Forbes list of the world’s most powerful women," journalist Tracy McVeigh wrote in answer to her own question, "they are also all firstborn children in their families. Firstborn children really do excel." So what does it mean to be an eldest daughter? Firstborns Lisette Schuitemaker and Wies Enthoven set out to discover the big five qualities that characterize all eldest daughters to some degree. Eldest daughters are responsible, dutiful, thoughtful, expeditious ...
Reading this book, you get the sense that Lisette Schuitemaker sees right through you. As if she knows that you gorge on chocolate at times, that you go crazy if people know something you don’t, that you are bound to hit the slow cashier one day. Or that in truth you’re not here at all with your thoughts. And how ardently you hope that one day someone will truly love you the way you are. You, me, all of us have drawn some conclusions in our childhood: impressions we got as a young child and the conclusions we jumped to about ourselves, the world and our place in it. These childhood conclusions still produce habitual thoughts that mark our behaviors. “Why didn’t I know this before and...
An exploration of the self-fulfilling lives of people who, by chance or choice, have no children of their own • Investigates the life choices people make around having children and alternate ways of finding purpose in life • Based on a global survey and more than 50 in-depth interviews with childless and childfree women and men aged 19 to 91 from different cultures and walks of life • Enables readers to place their own circumstances in a larger context as they gain insight in the worldwide trend of people who lead a self-fulfilling, childless life Not having children is on the rise in many countries across the globe. August 1st has been named International Childfree Day, with a Childfr...
This encyclopedia provides a concise introduction to the mental health topics of greatest concern to adolescents. It offers young readers the information they need to better understand mental disorders and the importance of psychological well-being. Addressing mental illness and prioritizing psychological well-being are important at any age, but the teen years present unique challenges. Hormonal changes, peer pressure, and the demands of school and a busy social life combined with many other factors put adolescents at high risk for mental health problems. Certain disorders, such as depression and anxiety, are particularly prevalent in this age group, as are risky behaviors like substance abu...
• Examines each of the 9 Enneagram types as parents, including how to utilize your type’s inherent skills to be a better parent • Explores each of the 9 types as children and teens, including their positive and more challenging traits, their triggers and fears, and how you can help your child find emotional health and achieve their full potential • Looks at each of the 81 parent-child type combinations and shows how each combination works at its best as well as what happens under pressure UNDERSTANDING HOW WE PARENT and why helps us to become better parents. Seeing life through the filters of our Enneagram type lets us connect with our children in a healthy and more conscious way. Ce...
Friendship battles among children have existed since the words ‘you can’t play with us’ were first uttered in the playground. But the worry is that today it seems there is no minimum age limit to being hurtful to others. Unkind or exclusive behaviour appears to be starting sooner than ever – even in nursery school – and continues throughout the school system. As a result, friendship issues top the list of parents’ concerns, and, from the other side of the school gates, they can often feel powerless. This book will change that as parenting writer Tanith Carey analyses the increasingly complex social pressures changing the face of childhood, having drawn on extensive research on ch...
Wies Enthoven was 34, had net een kind gekregen en had een leuke baan. Opeens kreeg ze griep; niks ernstigs, maar het wilde niet overgaan – paracetamol en antibiotica hielpen niet. Specialisten bogen zich over haar gezondheid, maar ze konden niet ontdekken waarom Wies zich zo slecht voelde. Het enige wat ze kon doen was zoeken, blijven zoeken naar een wondermiddel of een dokter die een verklaring had. Daarbij kwam de strijd tegen het ongeloof: is ze echt zo ziek, of is het psychisch? Bange helden is een verhaal over angst, over twijfels, en over het kwijtraken van de controle over je bestaan. Aan de hand van haar eigen ervaringen met de ziekte M E /C V S (Chronisch Vermoeidheidssyndroom) beschreef Wies Enthoven hoe zieken tegen hun wil afdalen in een wereld waar ze niet willen zijn. Ze hebben een verhaal waar de dokter geen tijd voor heeft. Ze zijn bang, maar ze strijden toch. Ze moeten wel.
Wie uns Krisen weiterbringen Nur allzu gerne teilen wir in den sozialen Netzwerken mit, wie gut es uns geht, wie cool unser Leben ist und wie bewusst wir das Beste aus Körper, Geist und Seele machen. Daneben scheint es nur wenig Raum für die unausweichliche Wahrheit zu geben: Im Leben eines jeden Menschen gibt es Tage, die einfach nur blöd sind. Richtig miese Tage, an denen nichts gelingt, an denen sich alles gegen einen verschworen zu haben scheint. Eveline Helmink entdeckt gerade in diesen Tagen verborgene Weisheit: Sie sind die Lehrer, die uns daran erinnern, das Leben so zu nehmen wie es ist, als ein Auf und eben auch ein Ab. »Wir sollten nicht die beste Version unserer selbst anstre...
Discover the revolutionary writing practice that can transform your life! In 1976, Linda Trichter Metcalf, then a university English professor, sat down with pen and paper and intuitively started a self-guided writing practice that helped to bring herself into focus and clarify her life as never before. She and a colleague, Tobin Simon, introduced this original method into their classrooms. They experienced such solid response from their students that, for the last twenty-five years, they have devoted themselves to teaching what has now become the respected practice of Proprioceptive Writing®–in workshops, secondary and elementary schools, and college psychology and writing classes around...
With 1901/1910-1956/1960 Repertoium is bound: Brinkman's Titel-catalohus van de gedurende 1901/1910-1956/1960 (Title varies slightly).