Kirkus Reviews, 4/1/14
“Kohn attacks the status quo on child-rearing and parenting…Via research and interviews, Kohn closely examines the current media-backed perceptions of permissive and controlling parenting and contrasts them with actual data, deflating popular beliefs that children are now more spoiled and unruly than ever…A thought-provoking, semicontroversial scrutiny of modern parenting practices.”
Calgary Herald, 3/3/14
“[Kohn] tackles many modern parenting assumptions head-on in his latest book.”
Boston Globe, 3/30/14
“With his trademark blend of skepticism and idealism, [Kohn] dismantles most of the hype surrounding motivation and competition, failure and success.”
TabletMag.com, 4/3/2014
“The best parts of Kohn's book are in the breathing spaces between the bouts of contrariness—the acknowledgment that it's vital to pay attention to your kids' desires and interests, that depending on ‘grit' as the answer to all social ills is wrongheaded…that we should encourage kids to develop ‘thoughtful skepticism, a reflective rebelliousness, a selective defiance based on principle' rather than simple rules-following.”
The Metro, 4/15/14
“The heart of Kohn's philosophy all comes down to unconditional love. Whether you agree or disagree with his parenting methods, that's something everyone can get behind.”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 4/30/14
“Kohn picks apart the script that today's kids are coddled and lazy—complaints every generation makes about the succeeding one.”
Huffington Post, 5/7/14
“[An] important new book… [Kohn] debunks many decades of nonsense about undisciplined, entitled, lazy, selfish, needy children who are the products of permissive parenting and schooling, rooted in the misguided progressivism of the 60's and 70's. His research is comprehensive, his logic compelling, and his prose accessible and witty…The importance of Kohn's treatise cannot be overestimated.”
IntentionalMama.com, 5/6/14
“If you're well-versed in current parenting and education discourse, you know that Alfie Kohn is America's gadfly on these topics, consistently challenging the popular views with solid evidence to the contrary…The Myth of the Spoiled Child is a point-by-point response to the common but baseless social criticism of modern American parents and their children…[Kohn is] highly convincing as he meticulously discredits prevalent assumptions about falling school standards, pervasive narcissism, and the overly touted benefits of self-discipline and failure.”
Hudson Valley News, 5/14/14
“This book will calm your fears and help you to feel good about your own methodology of parenting.”
Portland Book Review, 5/21/14
“Kohn dispels the notion that we're raising our kids ‘wrong'…[A] well-researched book…This is not a how-to parenting book, but will certainly provide insight into raising good world citizens.”
Bookviews, June 2014
“One hears so much about today's kids being spoiled that it was enlightening and pleasurable to read a book that says it's just not true…For the parent who needs a bit of advice, this book will prove helpful.”
"A wise and passionate book—by one of the best friends our children have today—that is also a delight to read."—Jonathan Kozol, author of Fire in the Ashes
"Splendid....Kohn's analysis is incisive, witty, and fun to read. In a manner that reminds me of Voltaire, Kohn brings clear and profound social criticism to a topic of great contemporary importance."—William Crain, author of Reclaiming Childhood
"An insightful, well-informed, thorough analysis of the many false and hostile claims made about parents and children today. Kohn patiently dismantles myths about 'helicopter parenting,' every kid getting a trophy in every endeavor, and parents allegedly inflating their kids' self-esteem, and shows the myths to be not just without merit but destructive. Then he goes beyond the critique to provide a positive vision of parenting for our time, 'working with' kids rather than 'doing to' them. It's a vision that should be heeded."—Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, coauthor of When Will My Grown-Up Kid Grow Up?
Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.
With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
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With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting
Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.
With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
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| BN ID: | 2940170820924 |
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| Publisher: | Tantor Audio |
| Publication date: | 03/25/2014 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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