Under Pressure
Putting the Child Back in Childhood
From the bestselling author of In Praise of Slow comes a fascinating and urgent look at childhood today and how we are raising a generation of overprogrammed, overachieving, exhausted children.
For generations of children, growing up was a pretty simple business: you went to school for a few hours a day, you dabbled in hobbies and sports, and the rest of the time you played. Or maybe you just day-dreamed. Carl Honoré explains how our modern approach to children is backfiring: our kids are fatter, more myopic, more injured, more depressed and more medicated than any previous generation. By using children as a way to relive our own lives, or as a way to make up for our personal shortcomings,…
$21.00
March 3, 2009
Carl Honoré was born in Scotland, but grew up in Canada. After graduating from Edinburgh University, he spent time working with street children in Brazil. Since 1991, he has worked as a journalist, writing from all over Europe and South America. His articles have appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic: the Economist, Observer, National Post, Globe and Mail, Houston Chronicle and Miami Herald. At the moment, he lives in London with his wife and their two children.
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