Philosophy For Children

In the newly revised Third Edition of The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children, distinguished professor Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings delivers an encouraging exploration of the future of education for African American students. She describes eight exemplary teachers, all of whom differ in their personal style and methods, who share an approach to teaching that affirms and strengthens cultural identity.

For over half a century, scholars have labored to show that C. S. Lewis' famed but apparently disorganized Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the seven books of Spenser's Faerie Queene. None of these explanations has won general acceptance, and the structure of Narnia's symbolism has remained a mystery.

This book explores the profound intersection between Seth's teachings and groundbreaking accounts of telepathy among non-speaking autistic individuals. Drawing on the “Telepathy Tapes” project and informed by decades of research into Seth’s philosophy, it reveals how shared consciousness, dream communication, and psi abilities point toward a collective evolution in human identity. As a continuation of Nursery of the Gods and Wonderworks, this volume expands the consciousness-based paradigm by demonstrating that reality is not limited to isolated egos or sensory input. Instead, it ...

What if the most profound truths came not from experts, but from the simple questions of a child? In Through the Eyes of a Child: When Simple Logic Challenges Accepted Science, Julian North takes readers on a thought-provoking journey that dismantles blind acceptance and reignites true curiosity. Told through a captivating dialogue between a wide-eyed child and a well-educated adult, this book reveals how easily our beliefs are shaped—and how fragile they become when tested by pure, honest reasoning. Each chapter pulls back another layer of certainty, exposing contradictions, challenging ...

What if kids, children, adolescents, teenagers or young people are able to control their anxiety, emotions, depression, worry, anger, panic, trauma, suicidal and negative thoughts effectively - this is where cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) takes effect. Think about the sanity and environmental benefits this will bring to our society. Are you not thrilled? It's not every kid, child, adolescent, teenager or young person who can effectively control their own emotions and behavior. But those who can, are able to take responsibility for their actions, have a good feeling and a tremendous ...

Political history often appears to be driven by ideology, strategy, or the cold arithmetic of power. Yet behind the speeches, alliances, and threats stand people whose inner world was formed long before they entered public office. This audiobook reveals the hidden psychological engines of geopolitics: childhood wounds disguised as doctrines, unacknowledged fears enlarged into national myths, infantile rivalries inflated into global crises.

88 emotions. 88 choices. 88 inner battles. 🔥 What if the voice you ignore is the one trying to save you? 🛡️ What if the enemy you’re fighting is yourself? 🌒 What if you’re not healing—you’re hiding? 🧘 What if self-control is your only real power? This is not a book of answers. It is a book of confrontations. ⚔️ You will not be guided. You will be challenged. You will not be coddled. You will be carved. Inside these pages, you will not find comfort. You will find contrast— between the one who sharpens the soul and the one who sells it. Between the one who rises in...

Internationally recognized criminologist and bestselling author of The Gift of Fear, Gavin de Becker, investigates how the Government "debunks" inconvenient and unwanted truths. This story of true crime includes bogus research, bribes, compromised experts, paid conspirators, destruction of evidence, and massive publicity campaigns to discredit people and truths that don’t fit official wishes.

Discover a way to end constant power struggles with your defiant, oppositional, "impossible" five-to-12-year-old, with the help of leading child psychologist Russell A. Barkley. Dr. Barkley's approach is research based, practical, and doable - and leads to lasting behavior change. Vivid, realistic stories illustrate what the techniques look like in action. Thoroughly revised to include the latest resources and 15 years' worth of research advances, the second edition also reflects Dr. Barkley's ongoing experiences with parents and kids.

Do you need parenting advice on how to inspire your child to love learning? Whether you homeschool, or send your kids to public or private school, this is essential listening for your situation. Why? Because schooling has become a disaster. Your child's interests and uniqueness are disregarded, and structured curriculum and standards like Common Core place them on a conveyor belt that treats all children the same. This system crushes a child's curiosity. Your child deserves better!

An inspiring adaptation of Meditations that teaches kids the core principles of Stoic philosophy—how to build inner strength, wisdom, and peace of mind. Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher-emperor of Rome, wrote his Meditations nearly two thousand years ago. These notes were meant as personal reminders, guiding him to live with courage, patience, humility, and self-control. His Stoic philosophy is timeless. It offers practical wisdom that can help children today just as much as it helped him long ago. As kids face the challenges of growing up, they need tools to understand and manage their ...

Could it really be okay to let kids eat whatever they want? Sleep whenever they want? Watch whatever they want? If kids are completely free to make their own choices, they’ll develop damaging habits that will haunt them into adulthood. Surely parents have a duty to set a few limits. But what if this conventional wisdom is wrong? What if our deepest ideas of how learning works, how knowledge grows, and the nature of personhood all point to the brute fact that parenting philosophies have missed a critical detail?

En este audiolibro innovador y práctico, Daniel J. Siegel y Tina Payne Bryson desmitifican las crisis y los conflictos, explicando los nuevos conocimientos científicos sobre cómo está constituido el cerebro y cómo madura. Incluyendo claras explicaciones, estrategias correspondientes a las distintas edades para enfrentarse a las luchas cotidianas e ilustraciones que ayudan a explicar estos conceptos a los niños, El cerebro del niño enseña a cultivar un desarrollo emocional e intelectual sano para que los niños puedan tener una vida equilibrada, significativa, y conectada.

An engaging adaptation of The Art of War that teaches kids how to manage conflicts and lead. Sun Tzu’s philosophy has withstood the test of time. It goes beyond warfare, helping people from all backgrounds. Yet, kids, who could benefit greatly, have limited access to this knowledge. As they begin their life’s journey, they will inevitably encounter conflicts. Conflicts are an unavoidable part of life, embedded in both human nature and nature itself. War is just one form of conflict, but there are many others. They include competition in sports, business, politics, relationships, group ...

One hundred and ten years ago, Maria Montessori, the first female physician in Italy, devised a very different method of educating children, based on her observations of how they naturally learn. In Montessori, Angeline Stoll Lillard shows that science has finally caught up with Maria Montessori. Lillard presents the research behind nine insights that are foundations of Montessori education, describing how each of these insights is applied in the Montessori classroom.

This audiobook explains philosophy to kids in an easy-to-understand way. It is the perfect introduction to the great thinkers who, from ancient times to the modern day, have tried to make sense of the world by asking questions such as: "Who am I?", "Is the world real?", "Is it ever right to tell...

In the last decade there has been a revolution in our understanding of the minds of infants and young children. We used to believe that babies were irrational, and that their thinking and experience were limited. Now Alison Gopnik - a leading psychologist and philosopher, as well as a mother - explains the cutting-edge scientific and psychological research that has revealed that babies learn more, create more, care more, and experience more than we could ever have imagined.

The perfect book for young readers looking for answers to some of life's biggest questions. Thousands of years ago, ancient philosophers asked some important questions: "Where do we come from?", "What is right and what is wrong?", "Am I real?", and "What is the point of existence?" These...

Jonathan Kozol traveled from the most blighted neighborhoods of Chicago to the urban wreckage of Camden, New Jersey; from the ghetto suburbs of Detroit to inner-city San Antonio; East St. Louis, and Washington, D.C. Everywhere, he discovered separate systems of public schools, with the children of America's poor condemned to schools that are underfunded, understaffed, physically crumbling, and imbued with despair.

In this dazzling debut, Carla Shalaby, a former elementary school teacher, explores the everyday lives of four young "troublemakers", challenging the ways we identify and understand so-called problem children. Time and again, we make seemingly endless efforts to moderate, punish, and even medicate our children, when we should instead be concerned with transforming the very nature of our institutions, systems, and structures, large and small.