Skip to content

Bad Stuff in the News A Guide to Handling the Headlines

Best in textbook rentals since 2012!

ISBN-10: 1587171325

ISBN-13: 9781587171321

Edition: 2002

Authors: Marc Gellman, Thomas Harman, Meredith Pratt

List price: $14.95
Blue ribbon 30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!
what's this?
Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:
Carrot Coin icon
XP icon
You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

How can we cope in a world filled with pollution, poverty, and violence? In our media-centric society, this is a question that kids come face-to-face with at increasingly young ages. And ever since the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America, our personal safety has never felt more in danger. With their unique combination of sensitivity, insight, and humor drawn from their years of counseling experience as clerics, nationally known commentators Rabbi Marc Gellman and Monsignor Thomas Hartman address such front-page tragedies as hate crimes, terrorism, school and sports violence, and substance abuse. After exploring some of the complex factors that lead such tragedies to happen,…    
Customers also bought

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date: 1/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 128
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Introduction
Terrorism
When bombs explode and planes get hijacked and buildings blaze with fire and lots of people get hurt and die
When angry and hateful people threaten and destroy life
When people who say they have an important message send only a big and scary message of violence
Kids Killing Kids
When kids bring guns to school and shoot people for no reason
When kids beat other kids
When school doesn't seem safe anymore
Hunger Near and Far
When you see starving children who look like skeletons with big eyes
When you see people sleeping in refrigerator boxes
When kids have no money for lunch
When poverty stares you right in the face
The Wild Earth
When you see pictures of a house floating down the street
When you see towns crumbled up in an earthquake
When forest fires burn trees and animals and houses for miles and miles
When the earth looks wild, mean, and very scary
Crash, Smash & Burn
When you see pieces of an airplane floating in the water or scattered in a field
When a ship sinks and people drown
When a train goes off the tracks
When cars crash and kill people
When the things we build to help us end up hurting us
Please Don't Hit Me
When you hear about kids beaten or even killed by their own parents
When you see wives scared of their husbands
When adults sexually abuse children
When home isn't the safest place for you to be
The Hate That Leads to Harm
When you see people hurt others because of the color of their skin or their religion or where they're from
When people hate governments so much that they blow up buildings
When hate is so strong, it leads people to kill
Really Bad Sports
When you go to see a good game but end up seeing a bad fight
When people play to hurt and not for the love of the game
When parents don't play by the rules of sportsmanship
When sports are dangerous and not fun
Mucking Up the Earth
When dead fish float down a polluted river
When you see oil-covered birds and otters after an oil spill
When food you think is safe is a poison
When clean air and clean water and clean dirt are hard to find
When people mess with the environment
Sad & Scary Addicts
When you see famous people ruined by drugs
When you see ordinary people killed by drunk drivers
When drug dealers shoot people and get shot
When people think that they need chemicals to be happy
Sick, Dying People
When little babies who didn't do anything to anybody get sick and die
When diseases spread all over the world and kill millions of people
When old people forget who they are
When people have to fight their bodies to live
Bad for Them, Good for You?
When you see stuff on TV that upsets other people, but not you
When your clothes or music freak out your parents
When the bad stuff doesn't seem so bad to you
Life Isn't Perfect Yet
When you finally understand that life isn't perfect and that this is perfectly okay