Violence Proof Your Kids Now: How to Recognize the 8 Warning Signs and What to Do about Them

by Erika V. Shearin Karres

With images from the Columbine tragedy etched in our minds, America is facing a crisis of epidemic proportion. Disaffected youth are rapidly becoming the norm, while grades and self-esteem plummet and violence in our schools escalates. We all want to keep our kids safe, but what can we do? We can't lock them in the house forever.

In Violence Proof Your Kids Now, an award-winning, nationally recognized school violence expert shows every...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573245143
• ISBN13: 9781573245142
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: Red Wheel
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Exceptional Insight

Erika Karres, Ed.D. adds exceptional insight into helping adults turn kids around and away from violent behavior. She provides numerous basic and sound practices, positive approaches, and fool-proof methods valuable to any adult living or working with children who face violence as a way of life. Erika's book is truly a blessing to those willing to listen and learn.

Practical, pre-emptive, and specific

Discussing violence as a symptom of underlying cultural problems, Dr. Karras provides us with eight specific indicators of potential violent acts by young people. She also provides 77 practical, pre-emptive suggestions of what concerned people can do immediately to take command as primary caregiver to the young. In my 36 years in the classroom, and raising four children, I have never read anything to compare with the clarity of these suggestions. Dr. Karras offers them to complement love and concern, with the perspective of an adult taking charge of raising a responsible and sensitive human, rather than handing this task to violence-glamorizing media.