200 reviews for:

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers

Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld

3.99 AVERAGE

knit_purrrl's review against another edition

5.0

dark hopeful informative slow-paced

opal360's review against another edition

4.0

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I disagreed with some of the arguments in this book but I appreciated how it gave me plenty to think about.

ida_ree's review against another edition

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I needed to read this book. Though I felt it was a bit alarmist in places, the encouragement outweighs that. Yes, it is important for parents to keep making the effort to connect with our kids.

northernheather's review against another edition

4.0

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He needs to rewrite this book with a ghost writer who knows how to write in an engaging way because there are so many fascinating and helpful ideas here but they're so hard to extract from the boring chapters that are long on repetition and psycho babble terms but too short on real life examples and case studies. If this was well written I would give it 5 stars without a moments hesitation.

labervera's review against another edition

5.0

informative reflective slow-paced

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It was definitely worth it!
What a treasure!

emmkayt's review against another edition

2.0

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I was really looking forward to reading this at last, because I'm interested in the idea of excessive peer orientation. I was disappointed in the execution, however. There's a good kernel there, but overall I wasn't very impressed.

nekobyyc's review against another edition

5.0

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What a good book. Must read for any parent or soon to be parent regarding the importance of and how to form strong attachments with your children. I love that this book not only explained the why, it also got into practical tips on how, including how to rebuild the parent (adult)/child attachment if the peer-to-peer attachment was or had already started to overtake.

oceanagottareademall's review

4.0

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Some great insight into the minds of adolescence, and how the state of society is challenging the child-adult relationship. All these things affect the development of our adolescence.

andrea_rossiter's review against another edition

2.0

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Interesting argument but extremely repetitive. I feel the book could have been cut down by half at least.

martalia's review against another edition

5.0

emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced