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Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
Frank Furedi
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Description for Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
Paperback. Contains ideas on how to stop disabling youth and instead bring out their full potential. This book shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. Based on sociological research, this book can bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 348. Why Ignoring the Experts May be Best for Your Child. 240 pages. Contains ideas on how to stop disabling youth and instead bring out their full potential. This book shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. Based on sociological research, this book can bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: VFXC. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 14. Weight: 348.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847065216
SKU
V9781847065216
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Frank Furedi
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.
Reviews for Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child
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 Frank Furedi offers advice in the Q&A Parenting section of Woman's Way.