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Title: The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap by Alvin Rosenfeld, Nicole Wise ISBN: 0-312-26339-2 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Pub. Date: 07 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.39 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: overscheduled author
Comment: While reading the book, one may get the feeling that the author may have been over scheduled. There are a few chapters that tell us to do just the opposite of what he just said in a previous one. The book is pretty good with ideas we all know but may need to be reminded of. It's a pretty good read especially if you do not get too caught up in the areas that seem to fall into Hyper Parenting and then find out what you thought he was talking about turns out to be not what he said in the first place. I agree with another reviewer, it's confusing in a couple of spots. It's not much different from other books on similar subjects. I like the guy and have heard him speak. I blame any discrepancies within the book on the editors. It amazes me how some books can cover the same thing over and over and still get 5 stars or as much publicity as they do. In the real world, within any family who have children in various activities, there's a couple of other books that cover similar behaviors and challenges that would be of further benefit, one of those being Mommy-CEO, Revised Edition, by family/parenting expert and syndicated columnist, of Parent to Parent, Jodie Lynn, and The Successful Child, by William Sears. Both books point blank tell parents how to help kids turn out well and to still take out time for ourselves but do not give conflicting advice about doing it. I am a fan of almost all of the Sears' books and find useful information in Lynn's books and columns. My suggestion is that some point in time The Over-Scheduled Child may need a small overhaul with maybe a different editor but same author.
Rating: 5
Summary: Its Easy Yet It's Tough
Comment: An excellent book for parents who have the time to slow down and seriously reflect life purposes before LIFE is living us instead of vice versa.
The information contained in this book is enlightening and true, but many parents just do not have the wisdom to get the truth internalised. Outside presure is strong and internal strength is weak in most parents. How to stay in mud and yet be clean? How to live in this chaotic world when the false sounds like truth and the truth looks like false and be able to make a distinction between them?
I thoroughly enjoy this book. It is one of the best parenting books that I've read so far. Children should be a source of joy and not a fountain of burden. Show them the way how we live a dog's life and they will duplicate it when they grow up. Show them the way we can live happily by being connected and contented and they will rub this wisdom and practise the same when they enter adulthood. It seems so simple but so few parents can exercise this simple wisdom.
Happy Parenting. God Blessed!
Rating: 2
Summary: Great topic, but not too well executed
Comment: Hyper-Parenting possesses the best of intentions, and is not lacking in insight and even, in places, eloquence. But the overall message is confusing and disjointed, and I was left unsatisfied in the end.
One big problem is that what 'hyper-parenting' means precisely is never truly established. One chapter criticizes the perfectly natural tendency to cherish a child in the womb. Another chapter discusses stressed children being pressured to 'excel' in status-laden endeavors. Are both these totally different situations 'hyper-parenting?' In one spot we are rightfully reminded that 'the important and meaningful connections [with our kids]'defy scheduling.' But in another place, we are apparently encouraged to schedule yet more time away from the kids 'for the things we want to do.' Why, so we can be sure to miss those important and meaningful connections? Can the reader be blamed for feeling a little confused?
The authors seem to assume that families are frazzled mostly because parents just take too much time doing things for the kids. Potential stress-builders, according to the book, include not only individualistic activities like music lessons and sports, but also family-building activities like nightly dinner at home. Unstructured family time is praised, but the book's assumption seems to be that this time will be suddenly abundant if we just quit karate. The possibility that Mom and Dad each take 50+ hours a week to work, and that this might be a big contributing factor, basically goes unaddressed. Such a one-sided view of the busyness problems suffered many families is not likely to be very helpful in the real world.
The book is plagued in several spots by poor philosophy. The authors talk sincerely of ethics, but then take an entire chapter decrying excessive 'self-sacrifice' and 'martyrdom'. But the problems the book describes are based mostly on status seeking or an inadequate understanding of family life. The differences between these poor choices and authentic self-giving are not considered. The last chapter treats us to a relativistic essay about how we each need to figure out the fundamental questions of life based on 'feelings.' So objective reality has nothing to do with the fundamental questions of life? Was this shallow pop philosophy really necessary?
Fundamentally, this book doesn't succeed as well as it could because it combines too many topics under one umbrella without doing a sufficient job of defining terms, making distinctions and just thinking things through. What could have been a fine book ends up inconsistent and somewhat rambling. It needs to be re-written.
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Title: The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon (3rd edition) by David Elkind, Ph.D., David Elkind ISBN: 0738204412 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 10 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Take Back Your Kids: Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times by William J. Doherty ISBN: 189373207X Publisher: Sorin Books Pub. Date: March, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Putting Family First: Successful Strategies for Reclaiming Family Life in a Hurry-Up World by William J., Ph.D. Doherty, Barbara Z. Carlson ISBN: 0805068384 Publisher: Owl Books Pub. Date: 02 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Miseducation : PRESCHOOLERS AT RISK by DAVID ELKIND ISBN: 0394756347 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 12 November, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The 7 O'Clock Bedtime : Early to bed, early to rise, makes a child healthy, playful, and wise by Inda Schaenen ISBN: 0060988894 Publisher: Regan Books Pub. Date: 08 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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