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This title in other formats:Epidemic the Rot of American Cultureby Robert Shaw
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Take a good look around you: You can't go into stores or restaurants without seeing joyless children screaming, sulking, resisting their parents, or pulling things off shelves. Parents, in turn, nag, complain, and often try desperately to ignore their unruly, surly offspring. In today's world, both parents and children are suffering all around us. But it takes a catastrophic event like the tragedy at Columbine High School — or one of any number of other frightening examples that make headlines weekly — to get us to acknowledge that something terrible is happening to our children. We have lost touch with what they need from us to grow and thrive, and in the process we've created enormous numbers of children who are disaffected, alienated, amoral, emotionally stunted, and even violent. In The Epidemic, esteemed child and family psychiatrist Robert Shaw brings to bear a lifetime of firsthand experience with and knowledge of this plague, which has become so much the norm that we often don't even recognize its warning signs. This bold and timely book tells you how to save your child and yourself from this epidemic, but its suggestions will not be the ones that today's parents are used to hearing. While the media is far from innocent, the bulk of the blame lies with the faddish, both neglectful and overindulgent, child-rearing practices that experts have promoted for the past three decades. "These children are not an aberration. They are the natural outcome of the way we have been raising them," Shaw notes. But there is hope, and Shaw's commonsenseapproach cuts to the core of the problem and shows us the cure, covering such important and controversial issues as:
The Epidemic is not just a "how-to" book, it is a "what is necessary" book — a call for parents to take responsibility for their children and give them what they truly need in order to grow, thrive, and love. Synopsis:We all know how important parenting is, but somehow the notion of what children require has slipped away. We've lost our sense of what matters most and when, and aren't committing the time and energy necessary to raise fully developed children. And then there's the great conspiracy of silence. It's not politically correct to say that some of our lifestyle choices are not in the best interests of our children, that they compromise the opportunity for the connections and rituals and nurturing that are so necessary to healthy development. Today, our children's problem behavior is so epidemic that it is no longer even perceived by many people as disordered: Deviant development has come to appear normal. Now we rationalize it, normalize it, call it a "phase" or a "stage" at every point along the way. Now we blame schools and educators, who we think should be able to manage our unmotivated, inattentive, hyperactive, aggressive, explosive, tantrum-prone children. Synopsis:An examination of parenting methods from the past thirty years links permissive disciplinary styles to such problems as hyperactivity, poor motivation, and agression and shares guidelines on how to create a psychologically healthy home. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-252).
About the AuthorRobert Shaw, M.D., a child and family psychiatrist practicing in Berkeley, California, is the director of the Family Institute of Berkeley. He specialized in child psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he trained residents in community psychiatry as the chief of the Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the entire South Bronx. He then directed the Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the city of Berkeley. The father of four grown children, he lives with his wife, Judith, in the San Francisco Bay Area. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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