Full name: Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Authors: Gordon Neufeld, Gabor Mate Year: 2004 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Parenting, Non Fiction, Psychology, Education, Children, Self help Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375760280 0375760288

International authority on child development Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D., joins forces with bestselling author Gabor Mate, M.D., to tackle one of the most disturbing trends of our time: Children today looking to their peers for direction--their values, identity, and codes of behavior. This "peer orientation" undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development, and fosters a hostile and sexualized youth culture. Children end up becoming overly conformist, desensitized, and alienated, and being "cool" matters more to them than anything else.   Hold On to Your Kids explains the causes of this crucial breakdown of parental influence--and demonstrates ways to "reattach" to sons and daughters, establish the proper hierarchy in the home, make kids feel safe and understood, and earn back your children's loyalty and love. This updated edition also specifically addresses the unprecedented parenting challenges posed by the rise of digital devices and social media. By helping to reawaken instincts innate to us all, Neufeld and Mate will empower parents to be what nature intended: a true source of contact, security, and warmth for their children. Similar books: Parenting With Love And Logic by Foster Cline Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne Hands Free Mama by Rachel Macy Stafford Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen The Idle Parent by Tom Hodgkinson Parenting From the Inside Out by Daniel J. Siegel The Mother Trip by Ariel Gore Cleaning House by Kay Wills Wyma Calmer, Easier, Happier Parenting by Noel Janis-Norton Parenting Teens With Love And Logic by Foster Cline The Fussy Baby Book by William Sears Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves by Naomi Aldort "You Can't Make Me" by Cynthia Ulrich Tobias How to Raise an Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims Kids Are Worth It! by Barbara Coloroso Between Parent and Child by Haim G. Ginott The Optimistic Child by Martin E. P. Seligman Quiet Power by Susan Cain Real Boys by William Pollack Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child The Heart of Parenting by John Gottman