Nancy Samalin

憤怒是親子關係中，亦是所有人際關係中，最危險的情緒，因為父母親生氣時如果失去控制，他們可能嚴重傷害自己心愛的小孩----可能是身體上或是心理上。事實上，很多父母親皆無意造成孩子的傷害，他們只是沿襲上一代「不打不成器」的觀念來管教小孩。然而，許多自覺性高的父母親發現，當他們在生氣地處罰孩子之後，卻覺得很愧對小孩，因而做了一些彌補的行為。這樣「憤怒─愧疚」的循環不僅無助於管教，亦可能同時傷害了父母親與

All those baby boomers who have embarked on the journey of raising their second and third children have found themselves left in the lurch by existing child care literature. Now child care expert Nanc

A guide to dealing with the anger parents often feel toward their children offers such valuable confrontation techniques as making an exit, saying "I" instead of "You," focusing on the essentials, and

In this now-classic, straightforward approach to childraising, Nancy Samalin shows parents how to set clear, concise guidelines to ensure positive and constructive discipline. Based on her extensive w

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread by social interaction and the movement of people. What used to be divine has become human - all too human, as Nietzsche would say.But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are much more complex and harder to define than we had previously thought, and also discovering that the nature and exercise of political power are more complex than we may have thought. And this, argues Nancy, helps us to see why the term 'biopolitics' fails to grasp the conditions in which we now find ourselves. Life and politics challenge us together. Our scientific knowledge tells us that we are dependent only on our own technical power, but can we rely on technologies when knowledge itself includes uncertainties? If this is the case for technical power, it is much more so for political power, even as it presents itself as guided

The concept of community is one heavily burdened by the events of the 20th century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with