The Little Trials of Childhood, and Children's Strategies for Dealing with Them

Joel Best, Frances Chaput Waksler

Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 1997 · 32 citations · 0 references

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Abstract

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?