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More importantly he poses solutions to these problematic challenges of parenting. Dec 29, 2015 the collapse of parenting is academic but practical, simple but deep. Over the past 30 years, a major shift has occurred in american culture. Each week, our editors select the one author and one book they believe to be most worthy of your attention and highlight them in our pro connect email alert. With a downtoearth, warm, and humorous style, one of americas top family psychologists sets forth a virtually stressfree, biblically based system of childrearing that encourages family growth in harmony with gods word. Although this is positioned as a parenting book, sax. This handout is not intended to be read separately from the presentation.
And it respects them as an individual and doesnt attempt to stuff them into the square pages of some book that some quack wrote and selfpublished in order to fund his boat. How we can reverse the collapse of parenting author interview our feature author interview is with leonard sax, md, phd, author of the new book the collapse of parenting. The collapse of parenting is therefore not a doomsday prophecy decrying the loss of parenting skills but a useful guide of how to address the growing issues facing parents and society today. Leonard sax md phd is a practicing family physician, a phd psychologist, and the author of four books for parents, including the new york times bestseller the collapse of parenting. The collapse of parenting how we hurt our kids when we treat them like grownups.
We are experimenting on children in a way which has no precedent, with medications whose longterm risks are largely unknown. How we hurt our kids when we treat them like grownups by leonard sax at indigo. If youre going to read one book on parenting this year, make it the collapse of parenting by leonard sax. The book is called the collapse of parenting, and i must say. The following are recommended parenting books by topic. The schools then were also equipped with discipline, and not much interference from parents who were so lenient and scared of it. The collapse of parenting leonard sax md phd physician. He shows how broader social changes, including neoliberalism, feminism, the collapse of the socialdemocratic ideal, and the new behaviourism, have led to the rise of the anxious and narcissistic parent. How we hurt our kids when we treat them like grownups by leonard sax this parenting book was so helpful to me. Parenting by the book is ideal for use as a text in parenting classes conducted by churches and schools, especially christian schools. How we hurt our kids when we treat them like grown ups is informed saxs personal and.