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199 reviews for:
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld
3.99 AVERAGE
199 reviews for:
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld
3.99 AVERAGE
A thoughtful read, but definitely got repetitive quickly. Could’ve used more actionable strategies and case studies.
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
informative
sad
medium-paced
good book if you don't know very much about attachment theory. I have studied this before so I found it a little to simple. bottom line...be involved in your kids lives...
informative
slow-paced
Although I feel as though the message of this book is important, like the book itself, that is just a feeling. I have no scientific evidence to back up my feelings, and neither does Gordon Neufeld. This is a book of suppositions and instinct, but unfortunately not a lot of meat. The central message is that families have turned from a more evolutionarily-appropriate societal structure where children are raised within a small, tribal community to an evolutionarily-inappropriate structure where parents are encouraged to hand away their children to day cares, schools, sports clubs, afterschool activities, playgroups, and a myriad of other activities where children interact with each other rather than with their parents and other adults. As a result, Neufeld supposes, our children are missing out on vital societal development they would get from interacting more with older people. It isn't that I think he is entirely wrong, it is that I think his thesis is poorly developed and poorly supported. I am a proponent of attachment theory, but I want to see the evidence. I am disappointed that this book is rated so highly overall, I suspect readers give it five stars mostly because it affirms their biases.
challenging
informative
slow-paced
Some good ideas buried in alarmist extreme behavioral challenges. I completely gave up when he used “Boxcar children” and “Lord of the Flies” as examples of children with peer attachment.
informative
slow-paced