Professor Frank Furedi (Professor of Sociology, University of Kent,

Paranoid Parenting

Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Contains ideas on how to stop disabling youth and instead bring out their full potential. This book shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. Based on sociological research, this book can bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 151mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9781847065216
• ISBN-10: 184706521X
• Artikelnr.: 24427896

Autorenporträt

Frank Furedi

Inhaltsangabe

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