Richard Weissbourd

Parents We Mean to Be (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A wake-up call for a national crisis in parentingand a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity. Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd argues incisively that parentsnot peers, not televisionare the primary shapers of their children's moral lives. And yet, it is parents' lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children's development. Through the author's own original field research, including hundreds of rich, revealing conversations with children, parents, teachers, and coaches, a surprising picture emerges. Parents' intense focus on their children's happiness is turning many children into self-involved, fragile conformists. The suddenly widespread desire of parents to be closer to their childrena heartening trend in many waysoften undercuts kids' morality. Our fixation with being great parentsand our need for our children to reflect that greatnesscan actually make them feel ashamed for failing to measure up. Finally, parents' interactions with coaches and teachersand coaches' and teachers' interactions with childrenare critical arenas for nurturing, or eroding, children's moral lives. Weissbourd's ultimately compassionate messagebased on compelling new researchis that the intense, crisis-filled, and profoundly joyous process of raising a child can be a powerful force for our own moral development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HMH Books
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780547525327
• Artikelnr.: 37836811

Autorenporträt

RICHARD WEISSBOURD is a child and family psychologist on the faculty of Harvard's School of Education and Kennedy School of Government. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and Chicago Tribune. Weissbourd is the author of The Vulnerable Child, named by the American School Board Journal as one of the top ten educational books of all time.