Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child

Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child

by Frank Furedi (Author)

Synopsis

Dr Furedi's ideas on how to stop disabling today's youth and instead bring out their full potential is invaluable advice to all parents, carers and teachers."Paranoid Parenting" is an important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be read by every sensible individual interested in regaining a sane viewpoint that advances children's well-being. It seems that every day there is a warning about your children: everything from cots, babysitters, schools, supermarkets and public parks pose a danger. We are told that children's health, safety and welfare and constantly at risk. Based on sociological research as well as dozens of interviews, this book will bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children. If you want to understand why adults act like children and children act like adults - in short, if you want to understand why raising children today is harder than ever before - read this book.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 26 Sep 2010

ISBN 10: 184706521X
ISBN 13: 9781847065216

Media Reviews
Title mention in an article written by the author in the Daily Express, October 2008
Title mention in The Daily Telegraph, October 2009
Mention in Sunday Express, 20th June 2010
Author Bio
Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of numerous books including Culture of Fear Revisited, Where Have all the Intellectuals Gone? and Invitation to Terror, all published by Continuum.