Reviews for 5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2008-2009 Edition

The average rating for 5 Steps to a 5 AP Psychology, 2008-2009 Edition based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-03-08 00:00:00 Douglas Dishauzi Someone got me to read a book months ago that "would change my life for the better" but that book didn't. My Journey With Jake did! The book was just amazing to me and myself, living with a mild case of Cerebral Palsy and working with children & youths that are "medical fragile" the book got me thinking about what my values and beliefs are around these children. The world of caregiving is something that I strongly have an option of pursuing and think of it as one of the beautiful, amazing things in the world that a person could do for another person. Advocating for children who can't do it for themselves is another cause I relish deep down in my heart. My Journey With Jake takes you on a wild ride in the Ontario area in the 1990s. Miriam Edelson and her husband Jim welcomed their first child Jake into the world in April 1990 and there were problems surrounding his birth and after. Nine months later with the help of a MRI the doctors diagnosed Jake with Lissencephaly, a rare brain disorder. Once he was diagnosed and was able to come out of the hospital after a virus, his parents realized that he needed more help then was expected and that they could offer him. They found him a home an hour or two away from Toronto, in Belleville. Susie's Place, a place for "medically fragile" children was run by a lady named Gail who knew all about what parents with these kind of children go though after the life and death of her own daughter. Jake moved in on November 1990 and the place was a sanity saver throughout the book. Jake was able to see his family a lot between him travelling home for a few days, his parents coming there whenever they could and even got to know his baby sister who was born in May 1992. The book detailed what it was like to have a child like Jake, raising another child as well, being working parents, caregiving and advocating for your children when they don't have a voice, fighting back against the government policies, ethic care when it comes to medically fragile children and the future of them, standing up for what you believe in, and the author's views on Robert Latmiar's case. We are the 2000's and the year 2015, here in my city there has been slight changes from the 1990's but hardly enough to be happy about. There is no home where "Medically fragile" children can go and have the quality of life they deserve as human beings. Instead they put the children in long term care homes with adults and the nurses and care aids are just doing the basic needs and not giving a shit about them beyond their basic needs. I am happy to say in the last few months we have seen another slight change but just not enough to benefit these children who deserve better care and a quality of life that will enrich them until the end of their life, no matter how long.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-06-02 00:00:00 James Allen As others have said, this book is a collection of anecdotes from dozens of parents of various backgrounds. I enjoyed the diversity and variety of the perspectives offered. It's a sweet book in terms of helping me feel like I'm in the company of other new parents: alternately exhausted and exhilarated by the privilege of caring for a little one. You're almost sure to find an anecdote that hits home for you in this collection, since just about every viewpoint and experience related to new parenting is included. A couple have stayed with me and I'm grateful to have read them, as they give me a little more peace about my own parenting journey / have helped me frame things in a more thoughtful manner so I can be a better parent. However, the lack of a single thread or story arc ultimately means this book is a couple of hundred pages of paragraph-length anecdotes organized loosely by theme. That is great when one is sleep deprived and only able to tune in for a couple of pages, but made it difficult for me to sit down and read this for any length of time in one sitting or feel like the book was "building" up to something meaningful. I found the brevity of the various anecdotes and the organization of the book tiresome in the end: I'd rather read a collection of short stories that each span a dozen pages and encompass a few themes, rather than a collection of several hundred paragraph-length anecdotes that don't build on each other apart from offering various perspectives on a single theme.