![]() ![]() Available at paperback deluxe edition $12.42 Kindle $10.33. The Hurried Child: Growing up too fast too soon by David Elkind, Ph.D., Da Capo Press, 2007, 25th anniversary edition. Let’s give childhood back to our children. This book is counter culture to our hurried society which is exactly why I like it. Two excellent chapters in part 2 include Growing Up Slowly and How Children React to Stress.Įlkind’s documented so many significant cultural changes around hurrying children, he’s amended the closure from his first book to state, “In the end, a playful childhood is the most basic right of children,” (p. Part one addresses the dynamics of how parents, schools, media and technology hurry children. This ten chapter book is dived into two parts: Our Hurried Children and Hurried Children: Stressed Children. ![]() Out of home child care for 12.5 million children under age five with an average of 36 hours per week is yet another cultural shift, as is the child as a consumer, and the technology empowered student. Other significant cultural changes include the focus on infant education, such as Baby Einstein and computer programs for infants and toddlers. “In many ways, our new technologies have radically transformed childhood, and not always for the better,” (p. The latest edition adds information on the effects of technology on children with the pervasiveness of our hurried society and media. Concerns about sports and schooling that he considered developmentally inappropriate, as well as the effects of sex and violence on television were key components of his book. The first edition focused on the way parents, schools, and the media hurry children. Interestingly, he includes all his previous prefaces in this edition. Unfortunately, in his revised edition, the deluxe 25th anniversary edition, the prefaces to his books sadly state that children are increasingly hurried. The message in his original book published in 1981 was, “Give childhood back to children.” As a child development specialist, his message echoes mine. Or, you were nursing them at 1 a.m., looking out at the moonlight, longing to sleep through the night, then realize a few months later that it was the last time. One of my favorite contemporary psychologists is David Elkind, author of the 25th Anniversary Edition of The Hurried Child. Maybe you made cookies and brought them into school for their birthday, but it ended up being the last year they wanted you to do that, too. ![]()
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