Shanamadele's review
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)
by Gavin de Becker
Thanks for the thoughtful review. Yeah, it seems like a book on this topic would want to address how various "isms" can play into people's fears of the unknown. I'm curious to read this book at some point.
Shanamadele's review
Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane) by Gavin de Becker
Shanamadele's review
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parenting
Easy-to-read book on hard-to-face subject. I appreciate that the author takes care to emphasize where victims/survivors took action, even while pointing out how they might have escaped injury/victimization by acting differently earlier in the encounter. I also like the concern he shows for teaching violence prevention as a way of helping people be less anxious and more open generally.
He talks about some of the myriad reasons we--the big society We--tolerate violence and fail to see it. He does not address issues such as how racism and classism affect our intuitions. On the other hand, he uses both statistics and stories to underscore his thesis that much of what we think we know about who is violent and how we can avoid violence is wrong.
He talks about some of the myriad reasons we--the big society We--tolerate violence and fail to see it. He does not address issues such as how racism and classism affect our intuitions. On the other hand, he uses both statistics and stories to underscore his thesis that much of what we think we know about who is violent and how we can avoid violence is wrong.
Thanks for the thoughtful review. Yeah, it seems like a book on this topic would want to address how various "isms" can play into people's fears of the unknown. I'm curious to read this book at some point.