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Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Give children a voice -- Millionaire kids -- To start at the very beginning -- More savvy less deference -- The structure -- Chapter 1: A Brief History of Significant Children -- The student revolt of 1968 -- Tariq Ali -- Two teenage titans -- In power now -- Greta Thunberg -- Child prodigies -- Chapter 2: Research on Political Concerns and Political Participation -- Why do teenagers become more politically engaged? -- What do we know about young people and politics? -- Facts are hard to find -- What do surveys reveal? -- House of Commons research -- Hands in the till, hands up the skirt - scandal galore -- Off the pedestal -- Global Youth - the largest survey -- Hong Kong - dissent means jail -- Protests and participation -- What we know about protests and participation -- Single-issue politics -- Chapter 3: Personality Research and the Big Five Model -- On the couch -- Chapter 4: COP OUT - The Illusion of a Future, Young People's Anxieties -- Vaccine anxiety -- The lure of suicide -- Climate calamity -- Under sea disaster -- Apocalypse anxiety -- Extinction Rebellion -- COP26 November 2021 -- Chapter 5: "And That's Not Right!" Children's Sense of Justice -- The rules of marbles -- Heinz - whose wife had cancer -- A personal note -- Chapter 6: Children, Family and Politics -- Children on the media -- How much do young people know? -- How much do they care? -- Politicians need to sit up and take notice -- School councils -- Children's parliaments -- You are a dummy dad - and you're no better mum! -- Chapter 7: Technoference: Or How Technology Warps the Bonds between Parents and Children -- Chapter 8: The Paradox of Tech-savvy and IQ -- Chess and flexibility - the best human can still beat the machine just about -- Chapter 9: Children as Victims Too.

In a rapidly changing world, children have more of a voice than ever before. In The New Power of Children and Young People, David Cohen explores how this has happened, what the consequences might be and how we can best engage with our young people. David Cohen considers the social, political and psychological issues involved in children and young people's influence, and how it impacts the balance of power between children and parents and other adults in their lives. It examines crucial topics including the role of high-profile young people such as Malala Yousafzai and Greta Thunberg; their knowledge of and anxieties around global issues such as climate change; children's relationships with technology and social media; their changing relationships with parents and guardians; how children develop a sense of justice; sex and relationships; how children are depicted in TV and film; young people's experience of education; and shines a light on their growing political confidence and engagement. Young people should be interested as well as parents, teachers, social workers, politicians and other key professionals involved in children and young people's lives. This thought-provoking book offers insight to help us understand young people's lives.

1 Anxiety and the brain: taking control of your fears -- 2 The effects of solitude: case studies in isolation -- 3 Plagues through history: the past and its lessons for us -- 4 Variations in the national response to pandemics: paths to success or failure -- 5 Love in the time of plague: how social isolation can affect our relationships and sex life -- 6 Tensions during lockdown: anger, irritation and emotional intelligence -- 7 The impact of lockdown on children: attachment, mental health and resilience -- 8 Introspection is inevitable: mood regulation, dreams and personal responses -- 9 Money fears and how to cope with them: connecting financial security and mental health -- 10 My home is my office: working from home as the new normal? -- 11 Exercise your endorphins: how physical activity can affect mood -- 12 Physical exercise: ideas for indoor activities -- 13 Making the most of lockdown: study something new -- 14 The experiment: what the pandemic has taught us so far about human nature -- Select bibliography

A self-taught son of Irish immigrants, devout Catholic, King Country farmer and farming lobbyist, Jim Bolger entered New Zealand political life in the 1970s. He was a flinty Minister of Labour under Robert Muldoon and Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997. As ambassador to Washington, he helped create warmer relations with the United States. In recent years, he has chaired boards, has been the chancellor of the University of Waikato and marked more than a half-century of marriage to Joan. Never given to orthodoxies, yet staunchly National in his politics, in his still-energetic eighties he remains an impressively brisk progressive thinker. For six months he regularly sat down on Fridays with the writer David Cohen to reflect on his life and times, our nation and the world. Fridays with Jim reveals a quintessential man of the old New Zealand who is fully in sync with the new New Zealand, and with plenty of ideas about where it's all heading.

"David Cohen compares what great psychologists have said about raising children with their own parenting practices to determine whether the scientific experts practiced what they preached. Each chapter focuses on a key figure in historical context, from early scientists such as Darwin, through psychoanalysists such as Freud and Jung, to pioneers of developmental psychology including Piaget and Bowlby. Their ideas and theories about parenting are highlighted alongside their behaviour as parents, and the outcome for their children is revealed."--Provided by publisher

Introduction -- The first child psychologist / Charles Darwin -- A behaviourist's tragedies / John B Watson -- The man who analysed his daughter in secret / Sigmund Freud -- The archetypal prick, a provocative title / Carl Jung -- Melanie Klein and her daughter -- Piaget : his mother and psychoanalysis -- Benjamin Spock : the conservative radical -- John Bowlby, the man with the bowler hat -- The man who caged his daughters / BURRHUS SKINNER -- Violence in the family / R.D Laing -- Carl Rogers and unconditional personal regard -- The good enough psychologist? -- References

What does being a dad in the 21st Century really mean?Men today want to play an active role in the upbringing of their children; that means knowing how to cope with them, play with them, control them and love them.Becoming a father however, can be an extremely daunting prospect, after all it is completely uncharted territory.This wonderful book is not only for expectant and new fathers but covers the whole range of issues dads encounter from conception through to teenage traumas. Situations such as step-fatherhood and the changing relationship with partners are also discussed in a