Paranoid Parenting by Frank Furedi

Paranoid Parenting by Frank Furedi

Dr Furedi's ideas on how to stop disabling today's youth and instead bring out their full potential is invaluable advice to all parents, carers and teachers."Paranoid Parenting" is an important book that shows how parental fears have been stoked and families harmed as a consequence. It ought to be read by every sensible individual interested in regaining a sane viewpoint that advances children's well-being. It seems that every day there is a warning about your children: everything from cots, babysitters, schools, supermarkets and public parks pose a danger. We are told that children's health, safety and welfare and constantly at risk. Based on sociological research as well as dozens of interviews, this book will bolster your confidence in your own judgements and enable you to bring up self-assured, imaginative, capable children. If you want to understand why adults act like children and children act like adults - in short, if you want to understand why raising children today is harder than ever before - read this book.

Title mention in an article written by the author in the Daily Express, October 2008
Title mention in The Daily Telegraph, October 2009
Mention in Sunday Express, 20th June 2010
Author Frank Furedi offers advice in the Q&A Parenting section of Woman's Way

Frank Furedi is Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author of numerous books including Culture of Fear Revisited, Where Have all the Intellectuals Gone? and Invitation to Terror, all published by Continuum.

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ISBN 13	9781847065216
ISBN 10	184706521X
Title	Paranoid Parenting
Author	Frank Furedi
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Year published	2008-10-25
Number of pages	240
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