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Loading... Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parentingby Carl Honoré
![]() None No current Talk conversations about this book. ![]() ![]() As Honore makes clear throughout this book it is not meant to be read as a parenting manifesto or guide. What it is, is a wonderfully erudite questioning of our current mania for speed in all aspects of our lives and in particular as to how we are raising our children. Children tend to copy our actions more than our words as parents and as such it is as important to question our own actions as it is to question theirs. I enjoyed this book immensely and while it raised a number of issues I am already investigating/doing, there was still alot of ideas that were new for me to ponder. Like Honore says, all families are different and as such any book that gives strict "parenting advice" is susceptible to only imparting more dogma. This book gives the reader some great ideas and practical, working examples - what one does with it is simply and most importantly up to them and their children. Once again, disapointment in the parenting book department. I did not feel that this book contributed to the discussion in a positive way at all. It relied on anecdotes about families who found a magical solution to their overscheduling problems and were now able to serve up a bunch of platitudes with their healthy macro-biotic family meal. no reviews | add a review
"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling author Carl Honoré's son sparked a two-year investigation into how our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is damaging both parents and children. When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces to create over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. The mere mention of potty-training, ballet classes, preschool, ADD, or overeating is enough to spark a heated debate about the right way to raise our children. The problem is that despite the best intentions of all involved, the pressure to manage every detail of our children's lives from in utero through college is overwhelming. Delivering much more than a wake-up call, international bestselling author Carl Honoré interviews experts in Europe, North America, and the Far East, talks to families around the world and sifts through the latest scientific research. Not only do we see the real dangers of micromanaging children, but Honoré also shows us an emerging new movement inspiring many to slow down and find the natural balance between too little and too much. Blending the finest reportage, intellectual inquiry, and extraordinary true stories, Under Pressure is the first book to challenge the status quo by mapping out an alternative to the culture of hyperparenting that is presently pushing children and their parents to the brink. No library descriptions found. |
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