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A psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting issues joins forces with a physician and bestselling author to tackle one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time -- peers replacing parents in the lives of our children.
Dr. Gordon Neufeld has dubbed this phenomenon peer orientation, which refers to the tendency of children and youth to look to their peers for direction: for a sense of right and wrong, for values, identity and codes of behaviour. Peer orientation undermines family cohesion, sabotages healthy development and fosters and aggressive and prematurely sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful explanation for schoolyard bullying and youth violence; its effects are painfully evident in rampant drug use, teenage gangs, and at its most extreme, in tragedies such as occurred in Littleton, Colorado; Tabor, Alberta; and Victoria, B.C. It is an escalating trend that has never been adequately described or understood until Hold On to Your Kids. Once understood, it becomes self-evident -- as do the solutions.
Hold On to Your Kids will restore parenting to its natural intuitive basis and the parent-child relationship to its rightful preeminence. The concepts, principles and practical advice contained in Hold On to Your Kids will help parents keep or regain their natural authority and will protect children from becoming lost in the motionally barren and culturally sterile world of peer orientation. The book will empower parents to be for their children what nature intended: the true source of contact, security and warmth.
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