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"In Ready or Not, Kay S. Hymowitz offers a startling new interpretation of what makes our children tick and where the moral anomie of today's children comes from.
She reveals how our ideas about childrearing itself have been transformed, perniciously, in reponse to the theories of various "experts" - educators, psychologists, lawyers, media executives - who have encouraged us to view children as small adults, autonomous actors who know what is best for themselves and who have no need for adult instruction or supervision.
The idea of childhood as a time of limited competence, in which adults prepare the young for maturity, has fallen into disrepute; independence has become not the reward of time, but rather something that our children have come to expect and demand at increasingly younger ages."--BOOK JACKET.
"One of the great ironies of turning our children into small adults is that American society has become less successful at producing truly mature men and women. When sophisticated children do grow up, they often find themselves unable to accept real adult responsibilities. Thus we see more people in their twenties and thirties living like children, unwilling to embark on careers or to start families.
Until we recognize that children are different from grownups and need to be nurtured as such, Hymowitz argues, our society will be hollow at its core."--BOOK JACKET.
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Social conditions, Children and adults, Kinderen, Ethische vorming, Opvoedingsmethoden, Child rearing, ChildrenPlaces
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Ready or not: why treating children as small adults endangers their future--and ours
1999, Free Press
in English
0684836246 9780684836249
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-278) and index.
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