Description: Title: The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development Author: Weissbourd, Richard Publisher: HarperOne Binding: Paperback Pages: 256 Dimensions: 8.44h x 4.94w x 0.63d Product Weight: 0.53 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780547248035 A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting--and a deeply helpful book for those who want to see their own behaviors as parents with the greatest possible clarity.Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd argues incisively that parents--not peers, not television--are the primary shapers of their children's moral lives. And yet, it is parents' lack of self-awareness and confused priorities that are dangerously undermining children's development.Through the author's own original field research, including hundreds of rich, revealing conversations with children, parents, teachers, and coaches, a surprising picture emerges. Parents' intense focus on their children's happiness is turning many children into self-involved, fragile conformists.The suddenly widespread desire of parents to be closer to their children--a heartening trend in many ways--often undercuts kids' morality. Our fixation with being great parents--and our need for our children to reflect that greatness--can actually make them feel ashamed for failing to measure up. Finally, parents' interactions with coaches and teachers--and coaches' and teachers' interactions with children--are critical arenas for nurturing, or eroding, children's moral lives.Weissbourd's ultimately compassionate message--based on compelling new research--is that the intense, crisis-filled, and profoundly joyous process of raising a child can be a powerful force for our own moral development. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Book Title: Parents We Mean to Be : How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Topic: Parenting / General, Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Developmental / Child, Life Stages / Teenagers
Publication Year: 2010
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Family & Relationships, Philosophy, Psychology
Item Weight: 7.6 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Richard Weissbourd
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
