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Conference Transcripts
2008
The Only Child & the
Natural World
Pauline Smith's Presentation
Pauline
Smith, Writer, Tutor & Doctoral Researcher.
Invited back to facilitate a writing masterclass, Pauline starts
her stimulating session by talking of her own experience of growing
up as an only child and the importance of nature throughout her
childhood in North Devon. She goes on to introduce the work of
leading Australian poet, Les Murray, whose emphasis on aloneness,
difference and relationship with the natural world has come from
his only-childhood in the outback. She then invites us to brainstorm
our connections with the natural world to elicit themes, sounds
and feelings offering exercises and guidance on how to proceed.
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Recommended Books
Only
Child How to Survive Being One
Pitkeathley & Emerson | Souvenir
Press | London
2006 reprint: ISBN 0-285-63148-9
 'The' book.
Pitkeathley and Emerson interview 60 only children on their experiences
of growing up as an only child in this definitive book. They
offer a guide to relationships and how to survive them, on work
and on being a carer. The final section is for partners and new
parents on how best to understand your only child. A very readable
and accessible book.
New and used copies available
from Amazon.
Only Child Experience and Adulthood
Bernice Sorensen | Palgrave MacMillan| London 2008
ISBN 978-0-230-52101-8
 This
book presents accounts of the experience of growing up without
siblings across the world. The stories, collected through interviews
and the writer's website, offer a range of only-child voices, which
speak of the challenges and differences only-children face throughout
their lives.
The complexity and multidimensional nature of the
private, personal and public worlds of the only-child are discussed
from a social and psychological perspective.
Important insights are given for people in the helping
professions working with child and adult only-children. Above all
the book demonstrates the importance of witnessing and existential
validation for only-children whilst providing understanding to
help guide parents and partners of only-children.
Hardback only. Available from Amazon:
Click here for signed copy
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