Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
Book Details
- Publisher : Continuum
- Published : 2008
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 236
- Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Category 2 :
Family, Couple and Systemic Therapy - Catalogue No : 28378
- ISBN 13 : 9781847065216
- ISBN 10 : 184706521X
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Dr Furedi's ideas on how to stop disabling today's youth and instead bring out their full potential is invaluable advice to all parents, carers and teachers.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
1. Making Sense of Parental Paranoia
2. The Myth of the Vulnerable Child
3. Parents as Gods
4. Parenting on Demand: a New Concept in Child Rearing
5. Parenting Turned into an Ordeal
6. The Problem of Holding the Line
7. Unclear Rules
8. Professional Power and the Erosion of Parental Authority 9. The Politicisation of Parenting