Under pressure : rescuing our children from the culture of hyper-parenting
From the publisher: "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
Print Book, English, 2009
1st HarperCollins paperback ed View all formats and editions
HarperOne, New York, 2009
291 pages ; 21 cm
9780061128813, 9780061128806, 0061128813, 0061128805
1005146851
Introduction: Managing childhood
It's the adults, stupid
Early years : when milestones become millstones
Pre-school : play is a child's work
Toys : just push play
Technology : reality bites
School : testing times
Homework : the sword of Damocles
Extracurricular activities : ready, set, relax!
Sports : play ball
Discipline : just say no?
Consumerism : pester power and the walking, talking ATM
Safety : playing with fire
Leave those kids alone
Originally published in 2008