CONTENTS
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Introduction
 Definitions and Diversity
Tips for Using This Book
Movies for the Themes
Communicating with Your Preteen
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| PART I: Inside the Family |
| Chapter 1 |
This Clan Is Our Clan: The Extended Family
Movie: Secondhand Lions
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| Chapter 2 |
Parents Are People, Too: Each Parent as an Individual
Movie: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
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| Chapter 3 |
How It Began: Parents as a Couple
Movie (two-parent): Back to the Future
Movie (divorced): Mrs. Doubtfire
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| Chapter 4 |
Me, Myself, and I: Your Child’s Beginnings
Movie: Whale Rider
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| Chapter 5 |
Love Me Tender: Support and Conflict Between Parent and Child
Movie: Smoke Signals
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| Chapter 6 |
Roots and Wings: Trust and Responsibility Between Parent and Child
Movie: Bend It Like Beckham
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| PART II: The Larger World |
| Chapter 7 |
Everybody Needs a Friend: Peers and Friendships
Movie (for boys): Stand by Me
Movie (for girls): Now and Then
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| Chapter 8 |
What’s Love Got to Do with It? Romantic Relationships
Movie: The Man in the Moon
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| Chapter 9 |
Making the Grade: School
Movie: Akeelah and the Bee
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| Chapter 10 |
Nine to Five: Work
Movie: October Sky
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| Chapter 11 |
Looking to the Future: Adulthood
Movie: Real Women Have Curves
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| Chapter 12 |
Is This Just the Way It Is? Life
Movie: Pay It Forward
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Acknowledgments
Appendix—450 Questions That Middle School Students Want to Ask Their Parents
Selected Readings and Resources
Activities Index
Book Index
About the Authors
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