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9780201073973

The Hurried Child Growing Up Too Too Fast Too Soon

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  • ISBN13:

    9780201073973

  • ISBN10:

    0201073978

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1988-01-21
  • Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
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Summary

Often with the very best intentions, Americans expose their children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to low self-esteem, to teenage pregnancy, and even to teenage suicide. By blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expectingor imposingtoo much too soon, we force our kids to grow up too fast, to mimic adult sophistication while secretly yearning for innocence.With the first edition of The Hurried Child, David Elkind emerges as the voice of reason, calling our attention to the crippling effects of hurrying. But in the decade since this book first appeared, a new generation of parents has inadvertently stepped up the assault on childhood, misled by the new and comforting rhetoric of childhood "competence."Now Dr. Elkind has thoroughly revised this enormously successful book to debunk the notion of "competence" tha thas children racing off to early enrichment programs, burdened by the pressure to "achieve," and coming home alone to an empty house after school. He sees "sompetence" as a notion meant to rationalize the needs of adults, not to serve the genuine needs of kids, a notion that has fourth graders dieting to fit into designer jeans and children of divorce asked to be the confidants of their troubled parents.In updating this new edition, Dr. Elkind takes a detailed and up-to-the-minute look at the world of today's kids in terms of education, movies, television, rock & roll, and social trends, to see where the hyrrying occurs and why. And as before, he offers parents and teachers insight, advice, and hope for encouraging healthy development while protecting the joy and feedom of childhood.

Author Biography

David Elkind, Ph.D., is Professor of Child Study and Senior Resident Scholar at the Lincoln Filene Center, Tufts University

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition xi
Part 1 Our Hurried Children 1(94)
Our Hurried Children
3(20)
The Dynamics of Hurrying: Parents
23(24)
The Dynamics of Hurrying: Schools
47(24)
The Dynamics of Hurrying: The Media
71(24)
Part II Hurried Children: Stressed Children 95(108)
Growing Up Slowly
97(23)
Learning to Be Social
120(22)
Hurried Children: Stressed Children
142(24)
How Children React to Stress
166(19)
Helping Hurried Children
185(18)
Notes 203(6)
Index 209

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