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Neufeld, Gordon. author.

Hold on to your kids : why parents need to matter more than peers / Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté.

1st ed.

New York : Ballantine Books, ©2005.

xvi, 296 pages ; 25 cm

Argues that the growing phenomenon of peer orientation is undermining family cohesion and explains how parents and teachers can reverse the trend to serve as a source of guidance, love, and security for children.

Parent and child.

Parental influences.

Parenting.

Peer pressure in children.

Child development.

Maté, Gabor. author.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-280) and index.

pt. 1. The phenomenon of peer orientation -- 1. Why parents matter more than ever -- 2. Skewed attachments, subverted instincts -- 3. Why we've come undone -- pt. 2. Sabotaged : how peer orientation undermines parenting -- 4. The power to parent is slipping away -- 5. From help to hindrance : when attachment works against us -- 6. Counterwill : why children become disobedient -- 7. The flatlining of culture -- pt. 3. Stuck in immaturity : how peer orientation stunts healthy development -- 8. The dangerous flight from feeling -- 9. Stuck in immaturity -- 10. A legacy of aggression -- 11. The making of bullies and victims -- 12. A sexual turn -- 13. Unteachable students -- pt. 4. How to hold on to our kids (or how to reclaim them) -- 14. Collecting our children -- 15. Preserve the ties that empower -- 16. Discipline that does not divide -- pt. 5. Preventing peer orientation -- 17. Don't court the competition -- 18. Re-create the attachment village -- Glossary.

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