Up we grew : stories of Australian childhoods

Award-winning journalist Pamela Bone explores how individuals are tempered and transformed by the process of growing up through her own experience as a daughter, sister, and mother. This inspirational look at childhood explores such issues as why some children in difficult circumstances seem blessed with resilience while others struggle to cope with life and whether Australian children are less resilient than they used to be. The author's perspective is augmented by contributions from such prominent Australians as Natasha Stott Despoja, Max Gillies, Mark Latham, Michael Leunig, and Johanna Murray-Smith. The Author Explores The Way In Which We Are Shaped By The Process Of Growing Up And How Our Life Experiences Influence Our Character And Personality - Subjects Include Mark Latham, Michael Leunig, Natasha Scott Despoja And Max Gillies. Running Away To Rosebud -- The House That Jack Didn't Build -- Childhoods -- Lucky, Lucky, Lucky: Migrant Children -- In The Doorway Of Close's China Shop I Sat Down And Cried: School Stories -- A Little Liberal Or A Little Conservative -- Where The Light Comes From: Writers And Artists -- Resilience: Adoption, Divorce, Death -- Took Them Away: Aboriginal Children -- Some People Shouldn't Have Children -- What I Have Learned -- Precious, Precious -- A Good Place. Pamela Bone. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 247-248). Acknowledgements......Page 10 Running Away to Rosebud......Page 12 The house that Jack didn't build......Page 18 Lucky, lucky, lucky......Page 54 In the doorway......Page 85 A little liberal or a little conservative......Page 114 Where the light comes from......Page 136 Resilience......Page 159 Took them away......Page 192 "Some people should not have children"......Page 215 Percious, precious......Page 236 A good place......Page 254 Notes......Page 258 Illuminates the influences that shape us from early life: family, friendships, and school. Through a series of interviews, this work considers how some famous and less well known Australians coped with the death of a parent, divorce, differentness; talent, opportunity, money, or the lack thereof.