Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults - Hardcover

Elmore, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118258061 ISBN 13: 9781118258064

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2012

Synopsis

How to raise kids who can handle the real world

Today's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children's superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity.

• Shows how to identify the problem of artificial maturity in Generation iY and Homelanders
• Reveals what to do to help children balance autonomy, responsibility, and information
• Includes a down-to-earth model for coaching and guiding youth to true maturity

Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion.

About this title

About the Author

THE AUTHOR

DR. TIM ELMORE is the founder and president of Growing Leaders. Through Growing Leaders, Elmore and his team teach middle school, high school, and college students the skills they need to become authentic leaders. He has shared his insights in more than thirty countries and has written more than twenty-five books, including Habitudes ^TM: Images That Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes and Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future.

From the Back Cover

Today’s Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and, paradoxically, are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. This overexposure/underexposure produces artificial maturity. For many of our young people, the speed at which data reaches them has slowed down their actual maturity.

Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership that kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion, including practical steps adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their consumption of information with true development. These steps are centered on four keys for transforming artificial maturity into authentic maturity:

• Provide autonomy and responsibility simultaneously
• Provide information and accountability simultaneously
• Provide experiences to accompany teens’ technology-savvy lifestyles
• Provide community-service opportunities to balance self-service time

Also featured are helpful ideas, projects, and traditions gleaned from parents, teachers, and others who affect children’s lives, which enable the kids under their care to mature and become healthy adults.

Discover more at www.GrowingLeaders.com

From the Inside Flap

artificial maturity

Today's Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and, paradoxically, are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. This overexposure/underexposure produces artificial maturity. For many of our young people, the speed at which data reaches them has slowed down their actual maturity.

Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership that kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion, including practical steps adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their consumption of information with true development. These steps are centered on four keys for transforming artificial maturity into authentic maturity:

• Provide autonomy and responsibility simultaneously
• Provide information and accountability simultaneously
• Provide experiences to accompany teens' technology-savvy lifestyles
• Provide community-service opportu-nities to balance self-service time

Also featured are helpful ideas, projects, and traditions gleaned from parents, teachers, and others who affect children's lives, which enable the kids under their care to mature and become healthy adults.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118258061
• ISBN 13: 9781118258064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272