Mozart in the womb, Baby Einstein DVD's for newborns and i-pad
learning apps for toddlers. From the moment the umbilical cord is
cut, today's parents feel trapped in a never-ending race to ensure
their child is the brightest and the best. But while it's
completely natural for us to want our kids to reach their
potential, at what point does too much competition become damaging?
With constant testing in schools also raising the stakes, how can
we tell when hot-housing children is actually doing more harm than
good? In this ground-breaking and provocative book, award-winning
journalist and parenting author Tanith Carey presents the latest
research on what this contest is doing to the next generation. She
explains why, far from making our children more go-getting and
successful, it can back-fire with life-long repercussions, damage
their emotional well-being and fracture their relationships with
the very people who love them most: their parents. In this
essential manual for today's modern parent, Tanith offers parents
practical, realistic solutions that will give them permission to
take their foot off the gas and reclaim a more relaxed family life.
Packed with insights, experts' tips, real experiences and
resources, this book is a timely guide to safeguarding your child's
well-being in a competitive world - so they can grow into the
happy, emotionally balanced people they really need to be. 'I've
hardly been able to put the book down . . . as I turned each page
I'd find something else that resonated with me. . . Tanith has the
ability to challenge your thinking without it being judgmental or
preachy. She shares lots of real life case studies and draws on her
own experience as a parent and combines this with solid research to
make a really readable book. mummyfromtheheart.com 'A brilliant new
parenting book . . . filled with strategies for raising children's
self-esteem and nurturing them and how to help children avoid burn
out and stress. I like how simple, doable yet effective these
strategies are . . . I relished this book and I think it is really
important. BabyBudgeting.co.uk 'An impassioned book appealing to
other parents to rethink all the relentless competitiveness -
before it's too late.' Psychologies 'A highly readable,
well-balanced, well-argued contribution to the rapidly-growing
mountain of parenting books, with plenty of practical, achievable
advice for anyone who wants to escape from the tiger race.' Sue
Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood 'A fantastic new book by Tanith
Carey which gives children back their childhood.' Dr David
Whitebread, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education at Cambridge
University 'The book is GREAT . . . in a great tradition along with
Madeleine Bunting's Willing Slaves, and Sue Gerhardt's The Selfish
Society, and of course Kim Payne's Simplicity Parenting, as
critiques of society that also help us re-orient our parenting . .
. beautifully lucid and readable, and . . . definitely on the right
track in terms of what kids need. Steve Biddulph, parenting author
'I could not stop reading! It is one of those books that from page
one, had me nodding and agreeing at every point.' Shaheen Merali,
Families 'Possibly the best book I have read in the parenting
arena. Insightful and thought-provoking, it teaches you how to
parent in a better, more conducive way so that you stay connected
to your child and see them for who they are - not what they can
do.' Naomi Richards, The Parenting Coach
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