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Ships without a Shore - America's Undernurtured Children (Hardcover)
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Ships without a Shore - America's Undernurtured Children (Hardcover)
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Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day
care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for
children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed
appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build
resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined. Anne R. Pierce
argues that this radical re-definition has been embraced with
remarkably little discussion about what children, by nature, need.
Pierce submits that we have latched onto opinions about
childrearing that are potentially harmful to children. If
traditions are choices to be embraced or abandoned at our
discretion, and adult self-fulfillment is a primary determinant in
those choices, the fundamentals of the well-wrought childhood are
easily forgotten. Steeped in intellectual permissiveness, we have
convinced ourselves that parental substitutes are as good as
parents themselves at caring for children, that the concepts of
nurture and of the maternal are archaic and irrelevant, that more
lessons and sports are better than less and that the earlier one
embarks upon them the better, and that innocence and knowledge are
less important than worldly attitudes and competitive skills.
Understanding and challenging the theories and agendas behind
childrearing trends is a pressing need, and the subject of this
book. Pierce takes an honest look at the evidence on the effects of
daycare and of hyper-structuring children. She gives voice to the
many intelligent and estimable educators, child-development
experts, researchers, and social commentators who are ignored
because their conclusions are hard to bear. Equally important,
Pierce says, is attention to that inner tug of love and conscience,
which many of us have been programmed to ignore.Modern American
children are expected to adjust and to understand as adults would
the complexities and vicissitudes of public as opposed to private
life. For them, childhood is fast becoming a distant memory. Could
it be that America's thrust forward leaves children without a solid
foundation upon which to grow? This is the sobering question asked,
and answered, in this challenging book.
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