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"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling author Carl Honoré's son sparked a two-year investigation into how our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is damaging both parents and children. When the impulse to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces to create over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and overindulged kids. The mere mention of potty-training, ballet classes, preschool, ADD, or overeating is enough to spark a heated debate about the right way to raise our children. The problem is that despite the best intentions of all involved, the pressure to manage every detail of our children's lives from in utero through college is overwhelming.

Delivering much more than a wake-up call, international bestselling author Carl Honoré interviews experts in Europe, North America, and the Far East, talks to families around the world and sifts through the latest scientific research. Not only do we see the real dangers of micromanaging children, but Honoré also shows us an emerging new movement inspiring many to slow down and find the natural balance between too little and too much. Blending the finest reportage, intellectual inquiry, and extraordinary true stories, Under Pressure is the first book to challenge the status quo by mapping out an alternative to the culture of hyperparenting that is presently pushing children and their parents to the brink.

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"Under Pressure is a Godsend! Full of common sense advice..."--Christiane Northrup, M.D., author of The Wisdom of Menopause

"...a must-read book for parents, educators and all concerned with the health and well-being of America's children."--Madeline Levine, Ph.D., author of The Price of Privilege

"Honoré presents a list of ways in which parents all over the developed world have long been robbing their children of their childhoods by inserting themselves into every facet of their children's lives. . . . Joining a crowded field of child-rearing books, this is an excellent choice."--Library Journal

"...an important new look at the evolution of child rearing among the global middle class. Honore's final words to parents are comforting: Trust your instincts and let your children be children. There's time enough for all that achievement later."--Oregonian
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The acclaimed author of the Sunday Times bestseller In Praise of Slow reveals how families are struggling to cope with the changing world of parenting and childhood, and offers some new solutions

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  • PublisherHarperOne
  • Publication date2009
  • ISBN 10 0061128813
  • ISBN 13 9780061128813
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages304
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