How can I make everyone read this book short of buying and sending you all a copy?

[Malaleche]

Toxic Childhood by Sue Palmer
Please read it.

It's only £2.99 at The Book People atm.

If your children are older, is it too late to de-tox them, as it were?

(I have always tried to strike a balance twixt wholesone childhood pleasures and the evils of electronica, give that is how dh earns a living... but I fear I've Got It a Bit Wrong sometimes)

You and me both, filthymindedvixen. I think I'll be buying it, plus the set of St Clares books from the Book People.

I have been tempted to get it anyway. Today I am spurred on to go and part with hard cash (or is that too much consumerism and setting a bed example )

bad example...bed is where I'd like to be...

No - I think it's OK - it's spending with a Higher Purpose .

thanks for this thread! just ordered both books from amazon! i love stuff like this

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Thanx for the tip. Have ordered the book and look forward to reading it.

We ditched our TV about a month ago and dd3 is in a reaf facing pushchair. Trying to spend more quality time together and this sounds like a really interesting read.

I could buy the book, but I wouldn't have time to read it (don't even have time to brush my hair). Just wondering if she has any views on smacking?
I'm asking because her philosophy appears to be that the upbringing of 20 plus years ago was better, and smacking would have been a common form of discipline.

Lady007pink - she doesnt mention smacking actually, it's not really a book about parenting as such. I mean I think even people without kids would benefit from reading it. I shouldnt have had time to read it either, read it while bfeeding and then couldnt put it down, DP had to unstick it from my face in bed two nights running...
The point is not really that upbringing was better 20 years ago just that kids were more in contact with the real world, were playing out in the street etc and spent much less time staring at screens (TV, mobile, video games etc) and more time interacting with other human beings. Most of what she talks about seems obvious but the fact it's all been pulled together in one book is what gives it weight. I actually found her style slightly irritating in places and the constant references to other chapters got up my nose but even that didnt detract from the message.
I never, ever do this with books but I just finished it yesterday and today I started reading it again...

This is an excellent book. I'm a parent/govenor at my DD's infant school and they are very much into talking about this 'syndrome'. We've had presentations for our parents too! The word is being spread.

Ggood, that's what it is about - spreading the word!

Malaleche - you can notch up another 'convert' have read it and lent it to a friend.

Lovely. Another parenting guru to make me feel guilty. No thanks. I think there is a phrase coming, please arrange these words ..rocket not science it's.

The parents who need the help don't read these kind of books or realise that their parenting is bad.

i agree. its all common sense.
not that im knocking anything

fivefingeredfiend-totally agree,she's preaching to the converted .

God we are all so tense about how we bring up our kids these days,gets on my tits.

"The parents who need the help don't read these kind of books or realise that their parenting is bad".

Couldn't agree more Five Fingered Friend...that's the problem really, the kids that need the help won't get it anyway coz their parents lack any common sense.

Oh well.

bet her kdis watched tv till they were adults
then she decided it was bad

Lordy! More pressure - think I'll just stick with common sense and trying my best

no good writing books to help the parents who need it, they wouldn't know a book if it hit them in the face while they were busy watching daytime tv.

Preaching to the converted is exactly what it is all about. Not that I'm knocking the book or the message it is getting across, I agree with it all.

she's not a 'guru', not set herself up to be one, it's not a parenting 'how-to' book shit, it's more about attitudes in the world rather than You should Do this.

It's though t provking, in the same way that epople want to do their bit for the environment, without a load of people jumping up nd down slagging off bloody hippy scaremongers. There's not many people denying the existence of global warming....this is more a sort of wake-up call to governments, society in general to what may happen to society if certain (not rocket science) things aren't addressed.

she's very sympatheitc to all the pitfalls of parenting.

Look at what the likes of Jamie Oliver have achieved.