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Books for Schools

Addressing the Media

Resources

  • Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet Schor (2004)

  • Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Lt. Col Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano (1999)

  • Media Education Foundation 800-897-0089 has fantastic videos: Reviving Ophelia, DreamWorld (MTV), Slim Hopes (Eating disorders), Killing Us Softly (Women-media), Tough Guise (masculinity), Game-Over (video games).

Addressing Bullying and Relational Aggression

  • Cyberbullying: resources and information to deal with cyberbullying

  • Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children by Michael Thompson (2001)

  • Cliques: 8 Steps to Help Your Child Survive the Social Jungle by Charlene C. Giannetti and Margaret Sagarese (2001)

  • Mom, They're Teasing Me: Helping Your Child Solve Social Problems by Michael Thompson

  • Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boyfriends and Other Realities of Adolescence by Rosalind Wiseman (2002)

  • Building Moral Intelligence: The Seven Essential Virtues That Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Michele Borba (2001).

  • Schools Where Everyone Belongs by Stan Davis (2004). Check out StopBullyingNow

  • The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander by Barbara Colorossa (2003)

  • The Bully Free Classroom by Allan L Beane (used by Portland Public Schools

  • Odd Girl Out Speaks Out by Rachel Simmons (2002) for middle school girls

  • My Secret Bully by Trudy Ludwig: addresses relational aggression for grade school children

  • Just Kidding by Trudy Ludwig: addresses verbal aggression for grade school children (pending printing)

  • Nobody Left to Hate: Teaching Compassion after Columbine by Elliot Aronson ( 2000 ). Promotes the Jigsaw Classroom cooperative learning.

  • Raise Your Child's Social IQ: Stepping Stones to People Skills for Kids by Cathi Cohen

  • Teaching Your Child the Language of Social Success by Stephen Nowicki, Elisabeth Martin,and Marshall Duke

  • *ABC NEWS SPECIAL: THE IN CROWD AND SOCIAL CRUELTY: 02/15/2002 (Enter Product Code S020215 01 ). John Stossel interviews Michael Thompson, FEA will loan to members- In-Crowd and Social Cruelty 20/20 video What does it take to be popular? John Stossel discovers why kids dish it out, why they take it and what schools can do to make it better. Guests include psychologist Michael Thompson, author of 'Best Friends, Worst Enemies'. Stossel also visits schools with successful anti-bullying programs. Cost $29.95 .

 

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