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The orchid and the dandelion [sound recording] : why some people struggle and how all can thrive /

by Boyce, W. Thomas [author.]; Sanders, Fred [narrator.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelSoundPublisher: Melbourne : Bolinda Audio, 2019Description: 9 CDs (10 hr., 26 min.) : digital, stereo.ISBN: 9781529012729 (CDs) :.Classification number: 155 BOYSubject(s): Developmental psychology | Audiobooks | Psychology | Fiction & related itemsNarrated by Fred Sanders.Summary: Why do some people succeed and others struggle? Why are some people's lives filled with satisfaction and happiness and others with frustration and despair? Why do some people die young, while others live into healthy old age? Is it simply chance and luck, or are there early patterns of development revealing potentially determinative pathways into bounty or calamity? In 'The Orchid and the Dandelion,' Dr W Thomas Boyce - one of the world's foremost researchers in the field of paediatric health - presents findings that children have two very different responses to their environments. While some children are like dandelions and can thrive in almost any environment, there are others who, like orchids, are much more reactive and susceptible to their surroundings.
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Why do some people succeed and others struggle? Why are some people's lives filled with satisfaction and happiness and others with frustration and despair? Why do some people die young, while others live into healthy old age? Is it simply chance and luck, or are there early patterns of development revealing potentially determinative pathways into bounty or calamity? In 'The Orchid and the Dandelion,' Dr W Thomas Boyce - one of the world's foremost researchers in the field of paediatric health - presents findings that children have two very different responses to their environments. While some children are like dandelions and can thrive in almost any environment, there are others who, like orchids, are much more reactive and susceptible to their surroundings.

Narrated by Fred Sanders.

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