Saving Childhood: Protecting Our Children from the National Assault on Innocence - Hardcover

Medved, Michael; Medved, Diane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060173726 ISBN 13: 9780060173722

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1998

Synopsis

A guide to parenting examines the sources of childhood corruption, looking at everything from schools to parents themselves, and offers readers practical strategies for giving children a period of shelter designed to instill confidence and security in future generations. Tour.

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Review:

"If Michael and Diane Medved's "Saving Childhood isn't an important book, I don't know what one would look like."-- David Gelernter, "Wall Street Journal""Saving Childhood is not only one of the best books of the year, it is one of the most significant books of the decade."-- Dennis Prager, KABC "TalkRadio""[We] should welcome the Medveds' practical and upbeat blueprint for raising secure, optimistic, and virtuous children."-- Kate O'Beirne, "National Review

From the Back Cover:

Saving Childhood offers parents and grandparents practical strategies to cope with a society that seems perversely determined to frighten and corrupt its young. Cultural critic and popular radio host Michael Medved and his wife, psychologist Diane Medved, argue that in a mistaken effort to curb problems plaguing its youth, our culture has changed from protecting childhood as a precious time of growth to hammering even the smallest youngsters with a grim, harsh, and menacing view of the world. The Medveds systematically present unassailable scientific evidence, moving anecdotes, and personal experiences of raising their three young children to explain the attack from four primary directions -- media, schools, peers, and even well-intentioned parents themselves.

In a unique analysis the Medveds define innocence not as ignorance but as the result of three components -- security, a sense of wonder, and optimism. They empower parents and all who care about childhood with concrete, easily accomplished means to fend off the assault, as well as advice for handling hurdles such as the Internet, television, peer pressure, and the plague of pessimism. Saving Childhood enables us to restore and maintain for our children imagination, confidence, and hope for the future.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0060173726
• ISBN 13: 9780060173722
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 324