Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition
by Carlsson-Paige, Nancy
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- Title Taking Back Childhood: Helping Your Kids Thrive in a Fast-Paced, Media-Saturated, Violence-Filled World
- Author Carlsson-Paige, Nancy
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 282
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Hudson Street Press, New York
- Date 2008
- Bookseller's Inventory # G1594630437I2N00
- ISBN 9781594630439 / 1594630437
- Weight 1.19 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 9.08 x 6.54 x 1.09 in (23.06 x 16.61 x 2.77 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Child development - United States, Mass media and children - United States
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007042467
- Dewey Decimal Code 649.709
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Summary
An innovative road map to help parents bring creative play, quality relationships, and a sense of confidence and personal safety back into their kids' livesOne only need turn on the TV, stroll the aisles of any toy store, or visit any American elementary school to witness the formidable social trends that, over the past few decades, have begun to erode the quality of kids' lives—from media violence and rampant consumerism, to overly structured school days and overly wired (yet emotionally disconnected) relationships. What parent doesn't think back longingly to a time when carefree play with other kids and a simpler life was the norm? Childhood should be a precious time of oasis from the realities of the adult world, yet in today's fast-paced, achievement-obsessed, ever-more-dangerous society, this is increasingly not the case.Based on renowned early childhood development expert Nancy Carlsson-Paige's thirty years of researching and writing about young children, this groundbreaking book helps parents navigate the cultural currents shaping, and too often harming, the lives of kids today and restore childhood to the very best of what it can and should be.There are three attributes critical to all children's healthy development, Carlsson-Paige explains: time and space for creative play, a feeling of security in today's often frightening world, and strong, meaningful relationships with both adults and other children—attributes that we, as a society, are failing to protect and nurture. Grounded in child development theory and research, Taking Back Childhood reveals practical, hands-on steps parents can take to create a safe, open, and imaginative environment in which kids can relish childhood and flourish as human beings.