A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents.
Somehow a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children what they re like and how they should be raised has congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society.
Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid .
Beacon Press The myth of the spoiled child: coddled kids, helicopter parents, and other phony crises, paperback/alfie kohn
