Reviews for Path to biculturalism

The average rating for Path to biculturalism based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-10-24 00:00:00 Allen Braswell Riley, the little girl whose experiences getting up were chronicled in When Two Get Up , and whose going-to-bed routine is depicted in When Two Say Goodnight , here explores what it is like when two people get angry at one another. As she and her mother have an argument, the narrative imagines what various creatures and objects, from elephants to balloons, would do when angry. Eventually the narrative returns to Riley and Mommy, showing them making up... Originally published in Norwegian as Når to er sinte på hverandre, this picture-book about anger is one of a number of titles from author Tor Åge Bringsværd and illustrator Tina Soli's "When Two..." series. Of the three I have read - the three to be translated into English thus far - this is my favorite. Like the others, it is entertaining and imaginative, but it also has more emotional significance, no doubt owing to the theme. I appreciated the lighthearted handling of the subject of anger, something most young children struggle to control, and thought the observation that when we are angry "we almost don't know what we are saying," was well made. The narrative encourages children in handling their anger in less hurtful ways, but doesn't stigmatize them when they fail to do so. The artwork is colorful and cute, and Soli continues to use colorful fonts in interesting ways. Recommended to anyone looking for stories about anger for the picture-book set.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-09-11 00:00:00 Rob Wood In real life, we can't expect "a custom fit in an off-the-rack world," as Hawkeye Pierce told Margaret in a 1979 episode of M*A*S*H. What this means is that, when we get close to someone--anyone--then there are going to be points of conflict and contention. Bach's book launches from this Fact of Life: that arguments are inevitable in relationships (pp. 17-33), so what we must do is take care to ensure that these arguments don't become toxic and poison intimacy. Rather than trying to avoid all conflict (which has toxic effects, as well), Bach's book sketches a middle ground: If We Have to Fight, Let Us Learn to Fight Fairly! In fact, in what might seem to be a paradox, arguments--"fair fighting"--can actually be bridges to intimacy, since they provide a stage for couples to canvass, compare and contrast their deepest desires and most personal aspirations. Toward that end, Bach offers specific guidance on "How to Fight a Fair Fight." By way of background, a couple of notes are in order: (1) Bach's understanding of aggression's psychology owes a lot to Konrad Lorenz's 1966 book "On Aggression." (2) Bach shares Eric Berne's view (in his "Games People Play" (1964)) that some people avoid the vulnerability of intimacy through playing "games"--i.e., playing (masked) roles in patterned rituals which are comfortably predictable, but at the price of robbing their "players" of real self-revelation and mutual intimacy. (One famous dramatic example of this, which is never far from Bach's thoughts, is Edward Albee's drama, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1962).) Readers of Bach's book might find a pre-reading of these three sources helpful to appreciating Bach's diagnosis of intimacy-failures in relationships, and the "fair fighting" prescription he offers for remedying the problem.