Ellen Galinsky
Autor von Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs
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Ellen Galinsky is cofounder and president of the Families and Work Institute, a Manhattan-based nonprofit center for research on the changing family, workplace, and community. A leading authority and speaker on work-family issues, she serves on many commissions and task forces and has worked with mehr anzeigen many companies in the United States and abroad. For twenty-five years she was on the faculty at the Bank Street College of Education, where she helped institute the field of work and family life. Her ground-breaking studies make nationwide headlines again and again. Recent studies include Women: The New Providers (1995) and the 1997 update of the National Study of the Changing Workforce, updated every five years. She is the author of sixteen books, including The Preschool Years (coauthored with Judy David) and The Six Stages of Parenthood. She lives with her family in upstate New York. weniger anzeigen
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Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills… von Ellen Galinsky
A first-rate how-to manual for stimulating cognitive development in young children which ought to be required reading for parents and educators. Very highly recommended.
a great informational text discussing the seven essential life skills a young child needs: focus and self control, perspective taking, communication, making connections, critical thinking, taking on challenges, self-directed learning
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I really enjoyed this book. It discussed the seven essential life skills every child needs in order to be successful. Some of the topics included self-control, focus, perspective taking, communication, and critical thinking. Not only can children benefit from the read, but parents and teachers as well.
While reading Mind in the Making, there were some moments I felt I was reading common sense statements. I am not proclaiming to be a perfect mother or teacher, but I felt reassured knowing that many of Galinsky’s points I either agreed with or have tried her methods/approaches. I believe the seven skills mapped out throughout the book are pretty on point, although I felt at times some topics definitely intertwined with others. The highlight of the text had to be the various personal vignettes dispersed throughout. I loved reading that other parents and kids experience the same questions, concerns, discipline issues, fears, etc as my family. Some of these story snippets were so simplistic yet so correct in reminding me of the innocence of children.… (mehr)
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