It Takes a Village, and Other Lessons Children Teach Us

by Hillary Rodham Clinton | Other | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0684818434 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingbuttonbrightwing of Raleigh, North Carolina USA on 5/1/2015
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Journal Entry 1 by wingbuttonbrightwing from Raleigh, North Carolina USA on Friday, May 1, 2015
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For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her experience with children has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed is inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, it takes a village to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest-both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public-to discover how we can make our society into the kind of village that enable children to grow into able, caring, resilient adults. It is time, Mrs. Clinton believes, to acknowledge that we have to make some changes for children's sake. Advances in technology and the global economy along with other developments in society have brought us much good, but they have also stressed the fabric of family life, leaving us and our children poorer in many ways - physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. She doesn't believe that we should, or can, turn back the clock. False nostalgia for "family values" is no solution. Nor is it useful to make an all-purpose bogeyman or savior of "government." But by looking honestly at the condition of our children, be sifting the past for clues to the structure that once bound us together, by identifying places where our "village" is flourishing, and, most important, be listening to the children themselves, we can begin to create for our children the better tomorrow they deserve.

Journal Entry 2 by wingbuttonbrightwing at NC State Univ Free Book Box in Raleigh, North Carolina USA on Tuesday, May 5, 2015

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