Hold On to Your Kids
Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
This parenting classic on one of the most disturbing and misunderstood trends of our time—peers replacing parents in the lives of children—is now more relevant than ever. The latest edition includes new material on how social media and video game culture are affecting our children, and what parents can do.
In Hold On to Your Kids, Dr. Neufeld and Dr. Maté explore the phenomenon of peer orientation: the troubling 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. But peer orientation undermines family cohesion, poisons the school atmosphere, and fosters an aggressively hostile and sexualized youth culture. It provides a powerful…
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August 13, 2013
Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in Vancouver. He has spent much of his professional life creating coherent theories for understanding child development. He is nationally recognized for his work on aggression and violence among children and youth and appears regularly on radio and television, both in Vancouver and nationally.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
The Intelligent Body
Kyle Davies; Foreward by Gabor Mate
Hold On to Your Kids
Gordon Neufeld, PhD, and Gabor Maté, MD
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté, MD
When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté, MD
Scattered Minds
Gabor Maté, MD
A celebrated speaker and bestselling author, Dr. Gabor Maté is highly sought after for his expertise on a range of topics, such as addiction, stress, and childhood development. Dr. Maté has written several bestselling books, including the New York Times bestseller The Myth of Normal, the award-winning In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction; When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress; and Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. He is also the co-author of Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers. His works have been published internationally in more than forty languages.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté with Daniel Maté
The Intelligent Body
Kyle Davies; Foreward by Gabor Mate
Hold On to Your Kids
Gordon Neufeld, PhD, and Gabor Maté, MD
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté, MD
When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté, MD
Scattered Minds
Gabor Maté, MD
On Consolation
Michael Ignatieff
Who's Afraid of Gender?
Judith Butler
The Certainty Illusion
Timothy Caulfield
How to Calm Your Mind
Chris Bailey
Letters
Oliver Sacks
Meditations for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Mind the Science
Jonathan N. Stea, PhD
I Heard There Was A Secret Chord
Daniel J. Levitin
Rough Magic
Miranda Newman
Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
Mind Over Matter
Jordin Tootoo with Stephen Brunt
Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
One Sunny Afternoon
Rowan Jetté Knox (formerly Amanda Jetté Knox)
Generation Dread
Britt Wray
May It Have a Happy Ending
Minelle Mahtani
Ultra-Processed People
Chris van Tulleken
Releasing the Mother Load
Erica Djossa
My Own Blood
Ashley Bristowe
Likeness
David Macfarlane
Still, I Cannot Save You
Kelly S. Thompson
The Audacity
Katherine Ryan
My Mother's Daughter
Perdita Felicien
Cat and Nat's Mom Secrets
Catherine Belknap and Natalie Telfer
The Tech Solution
Shimi Kang
They Said This Would Be Fun
Eternity Martis
Dad Up!
Steve Patterson
Letters of Note: Fathers
Shaun Usher
The Erratics
Vicki Laveau-Harvie