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A review by marissa_atherton
Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld
4.0
It took me quite some time to get through this book because I was reading it on my phone (which is not my favorite 😓).
As with any book on parenting, I don’t agree 100% with everything in it. That being said, the author brings up several compelling arguments and has changed the way I look at my relationship with my kids (and my friends’ kids).
My favorite section was devoted to creating attachment and preventing peer orientation, since that is most applicable to me as a mom of little ones. I also found the postscript chapters about the digital age—definitely got me thinking about my usage and it was astounding to me how little the majority of parents (based on surveys and studies cited) are regulating or even concerned about their children’s media intake 😱 Maybe it shouldn’t have surprised me so much, but I am definitely an outlier there.
As with any book on parenting, I don’t agree 100% with everything in it. That being said, the author brings up several compelling arguments and has changed the way I look at my relationship with my kids (and my friends’ kids).
My favorite section was devoted to creating attachment and preventing peer orientation, since that is most applicable to me as a mom of little ones. I also found the postscript chapters about the digital age—definitely got me thinking about my usage and it was astounding to me how little the majority of parents (based on surveys and studies cited) are regulating or even concerned about their children’s media intake 😱 Maybe it shouldn’t have surprised me so much, but I am definitely an outlier there.