Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than PeersNATIONAL BESTSELLER This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time—peers replacing parents in the lives of children—is now more relevant than ever. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do. In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction—for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; it is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or contested until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident—as do the solutions. |
Contents
Skewed Attachments Subverted Instincts | 15 |
Why Weve Come Undone | 31 |
part | 45 |
Why Children Become Disobedient | 74 |
The Flatlining of Culture | 86 |
part three | 95 |
Stuck in Immaturity | 110 |
A Legacy of Aggression | 127 |
Preserve the Ties That Empower | 196 |
Discipline That Does Not Divide | 213 |
part five | 233 |
Recreate the Attachment Village | 254 |
part | 265 |
A Matter of Timing | 282 |
Peer Orientation and the Youth | 297 |
Acknowledgments | 309 |
Other editions - View all
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Gordon Neufeld,Gabor Maté, MD Limited preview - 2013 |
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Gordon Neufeld,Gabor Maté, MD Limited preview - 2011 |
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Gordon Neufeld,Gabor Maté, MD Limited preview - 2008 |
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