Spoiling Childhood: How Well-Meaning Parents Are Giving Children Too Much - But Not What They Need

Neuausgabe 1997
ISBN: 978-1-57230-211-2
Verlag: GUILFORD PUBN

Buch, Englisch, 263 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Framing 21st Century Social Issues

Vividly encapsulating the absurdities, heartbreaks, and possibilities of contemporary child rearing, this book shows how parents today are all too often caught up in a guilt-driven pendulum swing between parenting too little and parenting too much. Dr. Ehrensaft helps us imagine a society where we can overcome the treacherous balancing acts of work and family demands; where "good-enough" replaces perfect parenting, harriedness is traded for harmony, and children grow on a healthy continuum from infancy to adulthood.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ehrensaft, Diane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Perils of Parenting
2. Your Majesty, the Baby
3. And Baby Makes Three, or Is Baby Me?
4. Parenting by Guilt
5. My Toddler, the Doctor
6. Pampering Our Children toward Success
7. Parents Caught in the Traffic in Love
8. Use the Rod, Lose the Child
9. The Kinderdult
10. Toward Better Odds for Parenting

Über Autor(innen)

Diane Ehrensaft, PhD, is a developmental and clinical psychologist in the San Francisco Bay Area and Director of Mental Health and founding member of the Child and Adolescent Gender Center, a partnership between the University of California San Francisco and community agencies. Dr. Ehrensaft’s research and writing focus on the areas of child development, gender, gender-nonconforming and transgender children and youth, parenting, parent–child relationships, LGBTQI families, and psychological issues for families using assisted reproductive technology. She has published several books and articles in these areas and lectures, serves as an expert witness, and makes media appearances nationally and internationally on these topics. Dr. Ehrensaft has a clinical practice in Oakland, California, where she sees adults, children, and adolescents.