The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Weissbourd, Richard
The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Weissbourd, Richard

The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

A wake-up call for a national crisis in parenting--and a deeply helpful book for those who want...
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Author: Richard Weissbourd
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The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Weissbourd, Richard

The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

$35.50
The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development by Weissbourd, Richard

The Parents We Mean to Be: How Well-Intentioned Adults Undermine Children's Moral and Emotional Development

$35.50
Author: Richard Weissbourd
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Richard Weissbourd
Publisher: HarperOne
Published: 09/03/2010
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.44h x 4.94w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780547248035

About the Author
Richard Weissbourd is a child and family psychologist on the faculty of Harvard's School of Education and Kennedy School of Government.
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