Beschreibung:
A little explored area of childhood is that of the troubles and difficulties children experience simply by being children. Using adults' stories about being a child, this book presents children as they live in the social worlds of adults and in social worlds of their own making.
1.What are the little trials of childhood and children's strategies for dealing with them? 2.Whose body is it? 3.Presenting one's self 4.Activities 5.Emotions Ignored, Minimized, Distorted And Denied 6.Knowledge; Knowledge - the case of Santa Claus 7.Teachers and school 8.Crying and temper tantrums, lying and subterfuge, and other strategies for dealing with the little trials of childhood 9.What can be learned?