Taming the Tiger Parent: How to put your child's well-being first in a competitive world
Sep 2014 · Hachette UK
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Mozart in the womb, Baby Einstein DVD's for newborns and i-pad learning apps for toddlers.
From the moment the umbilical cord is cut, today's parents feel trapped in a never-ending race to ensure their child is the brightest and the best. But while it's completely natural for us to want our kids to reach their potential, at what point does too much competition become damaging?
With constant testing in schools also raising the stakes, how can we tell when hot-housing children is actually doing more harm than good? In this ground-breaking and provocative book, award-winning journalist and parenting author Tanith Carey presents the latest research on what this contest is doing to the next generation. She explains why, far from making our children more go-getting and successful, it can back-fire with life-long repercussions, damage their emotional well-being and fracture their relationships with the very people who love them most: their parents.
In this essential manual for today's modern parent, Tanith offers parents practical, realistic solutions that will give them permission to take their foot off the gas and reclaim a more relaxed family life. Packed with insights, experts' tips, real experiences and resources, this book is a timely guide to safeguarding your child's well-being in a competitive world - so they can grow into the happy, emotionally balanced people they really need to be.
'I've hardly been able to put the book down . . . as I turned each page I'd find something else that resonated with me. . . Tanith has the ability to challenge your thinking without it being judgmental or preachy. She shares lots of real life case studies and draws on her own experience as a parent and combines this with solid research to make a really readable book.
mummyfromtheheart
'An impassioned book appealing to other parents to rethink all the relentless competitiveness - before it's too late.'
Psychologies
'A highly readable, well-balanced, well-argued contribution to the rapidly-growing mountain of parenting books, with plenty of practical, achievable advice for anyone who wants to escape from the tiger race.'
Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood
'A fantastic new book by Tanith Carey which gives children back their childhood.'
Dr David Whitebread, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education at Cambridge University
From the moment the umbilical cord is cut, today's parents feel trapped in a never-ending race to ensure their child is the brightest and the best. But while it's completely natural for us to want our kids to reach their potential, at what point does too much competition become damaging?
With constant testing in schools also raising the stakes, how can we tell when hot-housing children is actually doing more harm than good? In this ground-breaking and provocative book, award-winning journalist and parenting author Tanith Carey presents the latest research on what this contest is doing to the next generation. She explains why, far from making our children more go-getting and successful, it can back-fire with life-long repercussions, damage their emotional well-being and fracture their relationships with the very people who love them most: their parents.
In this essential manual for today's modern parent, Tanith offers parents practical, realistic solutions that will give them permission to take their foot off the gas and reclaim a more relaxed family life. Packed with insights, experts' tips, real experiences and resources, this book is a timely guide to safeguarding your child's well-being in a competitive world - so they can grow into the happy, emotionally balanced people they really need to be.
'I've hardly been able to put the book down . . . as I turned each page I'd find something else that resonated with me. . . Tanith has the ability to challenge your thinking without it being judgmental or preachy. She shares lots of real life case studies and draws on her own experience as a parent and combines this with solid research to make a really readable book.
mummyfromtheheart
'An impassioned book appealing to other parents to rethink all the relentless competitiveness - before it's too late.'
Psychologies
'A highly readable, well-balanced, well-argued contribution to the rapidly-growing mountain of parenting books, with plenty of practical, achievable advice for anyone who wants to escape from the tiger race.'
Sue Palmer, author of Toxic Childhood
'A fantastic new book by Tanith Carey which gives children back their childhood.'
Dr David Whitebread, Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education at Cambridge University
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About the author
Tanith Carey is award winning national newspaper journalist and writer on parenting and society for the Guardian, The Independent and the Daily Mail, among many others newspapers and magazines.
She is also the author of six books - three on parenting. Her previous book Where Has My Little Girl Gone? How to protect your daughter from growing up too soon, published in May 2011, was the first hands-on guide for parents on how to handle the challenges of early sexualisation. It received widespread media coverage – including a three day serialisation in the Daily Mail, the cover of Guardian Family, a spread and opinion pieces in the Independent and Independent on Sunday.
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