Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Audiobook7 hours
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting
Published by Tantor Audio
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.
With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
With the same lively, contrarian style of Alfie Kohn's bestselling books about rewards, competition, and traditional education, The Myth of the Spoiled Child systematically debunks the story that we hear with numbing regularity. Kohn uses humor, logic, and his familiarity with a vast range of social science data to challenge media-stoked fears of spoiling our children. He reveals that the major threat to healthy child development isn't parents who are too indulgent but those who are too controlling.
Unavailable
Related to The Myth of the Spoiled Child
Related audiobooks
Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Smartest Kids in the World: And How They Got That Way Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5What's Going on in There?: How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Achtung Baby: An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How To Be The Parent You Always Wanted To Be Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Free Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts with Worry Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Loving Your Child Is Not Enough: Positive Discipline That Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Montessori: A Modern Approach: The Classic Introduction to Montessori for Parents and Teachers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Montessori: The Science Behind the Genius Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Montessori from the Start: The Child at Home, from Birth to Age Three Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Raise Successful People: Simple Lessons for Radical Results Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The School Discipline Fix: Changing Behavior Using the Collaborative Problem Solving Approach Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Mind in the Making: The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Math Myth: And Other Stem Delusions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons From Falling Behind in School and Life Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRaising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Teaching Methods & Materials For You
Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy’s Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Think Like a Lawyer--and Why: A Common-Sense Guide to Everyday Dilemmas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elements of Style Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Teach Like A Champion 3.0: 63 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Einstein Syndrome: Bright Children Who Talk Late Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lost and Found: Helping Behaviorally Challenging Students (and, While You're At It, All the Others) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Battle for the American Mind: Uprooting a Century of Miseducation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Talk So Kids Can Learn: At Home and In School Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What Great Teachers Do Differently: 17 Things That Matter Most, Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lies My Teacher Told Me for Young Readers: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher, 4th Edition Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Myth of the Spoiled Child
Rating: 4.444444444444445 out of 5 stars
4.5/5
9 ratings0 reviews