The parents we mean to be how well-intentioned adults undermine children's moral and emotional development
Through the author's own original field research, a surprising picture of the moral development of children emerges to confirm that parents' intense focus on their children's happiness is turning many children into self-involved, fragile conformists who feel ashamed when they fail to...
| Main Author: | Weissbourd, Rick. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Helping children manage destructive emotions
- Promoting happiness and morality
- The real danger in the achievement craze
- When being close to children backfires
- Moral adults : moral children
- The real moral power of schools
- The morally mature sports parent
- Cultivating mature idealism in young people
- Key moral strengths of children across race and culture.