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Summary: Its Easy Yet It's Tough
Review: An excellent book for parents who have the time to slow down and seriously reflect life purposes before LIFE is living us instead of vice versa.The information contained in this book is enlightening and true, but many parents just do not have the wisdom to get the truth internalised. Outside presure is strong and internal strength is weak in most parents. How to stay in mud and yet be clean? How to live in this chaotic world when the false sounds like truth and the truth looks like false and be able to make a distinction between them? I thoroughly enjoy this book. It is one of the best parenting books that I've read so far. Children should be a source of joy and not a fountain of burden. Show them the way how we live a dog's life and they will duplicate it when they grow up. Show them the way we can live happily by being connected and contented and they will rub this wisdom and practise the same when they enter adulthood. It seems so simple but so few parents can exercise this simple wisdom. Happy Parenting. God Blessed!
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Summary: Timely and important for today's overstressed parents
Review: Dr. Rosenfeld and Nicole Wise remind us of what is really important and valuable in our lives. So many parents, in the process of pushing themselves and their children to win, succeed and outstrip the next guy, lose sight of what truly matters. The authors also remind us of the loss of joy and delight that parents deprive themselves of in the rat race to raise overscheduled and underappreciated kids. A highly readable book for parents which can help them lead more meaningful lives.
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Summary: A Great Choice
Review: Hyper-Parenting is perhaps the best parenting book I have ever read. In a world full of opportunities and choices for our kids, its refreshing to get clear, helpful advice from experts who clearly understand what our children are going through. I found this book extremely well-written and useful, and would highly recommend it to any parent who loves his/her children and wants to do what's best.
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Summary: Great topic, but not too well executed
Review: Hyper-Parenting possesses the best of intentions, and is not lacking in insight and even, in places, eloquence. But the overall message is confusing and disjointed, and I was left unsatisfied in the end. One big problem is that what 'hyper-parenting' means precisely is never truly established. One chapter criticizes the perfectly natural tendency to cherish a child in the womb. Another chapter discusses stressed children being pressured to 'excel' in status-laden endeavors. Are both these totally different situations 'hyper-parenting?' In one spot we are rightfully reminded that 'the important and meaningful connections [with our kids]'defy scheduling.' But in another place, we are apparently encouraged to schedule yet more time away from the kids 'for the things we want to do.' Why, so we can be sure to miss those important and meaningful connections? Can the reader be blamed for feeling a little confused?
The authors seem to assume that families are frazzled mostly because parents just take too much time doing things for the kids. Potential stress-builders, according to the book, include not only individualistic activities like music lessons and sports, but also family-building activities like nightly dinner at home. Unstructured family time is praised, but the book's assumption seems to be that this time will be suddenly abundant if we just quit karate. The possibility that Mom and Dad each take 50+ hours a week to work, and that this might be a big contributing factor, basically goes unaddressed. Such a one-sided view of the busyness problems suffered many families is not likely to be very helpful in the real world. The book is plagued in several spots by poor philosophy. The authors talk sincerely of ethics, but then take an entire chapter decrying excessive 'self-sacrifice' and 'martyrdom'. But the problems the book describes are based mostly on status seeking or an inadequate understanding of family life. The differences between these poor choices and authentic self-giving are not considered. The last chapter treats us to a relativistic essay about how we each need to figure out the fundamental questions of life based on 'feelings.' So objective reality has nothing to do with the fundamental questions of life? Was this shallow pop philosophy really necessary?
Fundamentally, this book doesn't succeed as well as it could because it combines too many topics under one umbrella without doing a sufficient job of defining terms, making distinctions and just thinking things through. What could have been a fine book ends up inconsistent and somewhat rambling. It needs to be re-written.
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Summary: Release the stress for the modern parent
Review: I bought this book because of many excellent reviews. It is really useful and provides some new ideas that help the modern parent, like me, to release from the stress of over-child-support. This stress has been started before the baby was borne till my child is studying in the primary school now in my case.
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Summary: WOW!
Review: I read this fantastic book while wearing many hats: parent of two, grandparent of six, teacher of 42 years, and currently an author of "Why Our Kids Aren't Learning the Basics." Dr. Rosenfeld (and associates) said exactly what I have been saying (only more succinctly) for the past fifteen years. His advice to parents is right on the money! If parents will heed what he suggests, they will find the word "boredom" eliminated from their child's dialogue. The "bored" child is the one who has never had the opportunity to plan his own day because it has already been scheduled for him! Thank you Dr. Rosenfeld and assoc. for a wonderful blueprint!
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Summary: Hyper-Parenting Pro
Review: I saw myself in every page of this book. A refreshing outlook on our daily family life and permission to not always have all the answers. A must read for parents with growing children. Also a good place to start for new parents. I only wish the authors had written this book ten years ago, before I had four children. I can't wait for the sequel.
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Summary: Message could have been condensed to 10 pages or less.
Review: If you've fallen victim to seeing parenting as a competitive sport, you need to read this book. Rosen has nothing against Baby Mozart, soccer leagues, and all the other activities that parents and kids adopt for the best intentions. But he and his coauthor are reasonable voices, pointing out that by micromanaging our children's lives, we're giving them the message that they can neither function or make judgments without parental intervention. This is an excellent book that will help both parent and child.
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Summary: An excellent resource for overinvolved parents
Review: If you've fallen victim to seeing parenting as a competitive sport, you need to read this book. Rosen has nothing against Baby Mozart, soccer leagues, and all the other activities that parents and kids adopt for the best intentions. But he and his coauthor are reasonable voices, pointing out that by micromanaging our children's lives, we're giving them the message that they can neither function or make judgments without parental intervention. This is an excellent book that will help both parent and child.
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Summary: It's About Time!
Review: In this hypercivilization we're living in, finally there is a parenting book that addresses the insanity in which we've allowed ourselves to be caught up. Scheduling, scheduling, scheduling. I thought I was the only one who didn't have any guilt about letting my 4 yr. old just play this summer. No classes. Gee, imagine just spending time with your child and enjoying their company. Rosenfeld and Wise have written the most passionate and intelligent book on parenting today. A MUST READ!
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