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Search - Hollow Kids: Recapturing the Soul of a Generation Lost to the Self-Esteem Myth

Hollow Kids Recapturing the Soul of a Generation Lost to the SelfEsteem Myth
Author: Laura L. Phd Smith, Charles Elliott

Being a kid today is starkly different from what it was a generation ago. In a society where children have more toys, more television, and more independence than ever before, we have left them dangerously empty inside. Children from elementary to high school are more likely to commit acts of violence, abuse drugs and alcohol, or engage in risk... more »y sexual behavior than their parents were, while test scores and academic performance have declined.

The self-esteem movement?the teaching and parenting panacea that was supposed to cure these social ills and create brilliant, healthy children?has fallen flat. By bending over backwards to make kids feel good about themselves, educators, the media and well-meaning parents have created a generation of hollow kids who lack the fundamental understanding of who they are and what they can accomplish. How did our society become obsessed with the feel-good curriculum?a practice that places making every child feel special above learning the basics of appropriate behavior? Why did it become wrong to hold kids to standards of learning in reading, writing, and arithmetic? What steps can we take to ensure our children grow up with a healthy self-acceptance? Hollow Kids has the answers.

Written by two highly respected psychologists, this ground-breaking book masterfully debunks the self-esteem myth with hard evidence and insightful observations. Drs. Laura L. Smith and Charles H. Elliot meticulously demonstrate the damage overinflated self-esteem can inflict on our children: narcissism, prompting aggression, violence, and delinquency; a distorted self image, leading to tattooing, piercing, bulimia, and anorexia; and a ceaseless quest to feel good, stimulating insatiable materialism, shoplifting, and substance abuse. An extreme example is that of the Columbine boys who killed themselves, their classmates, and a teacher. The notes they left behind showed that they harbored a shocking sense of superiority and self-absorption.

A clarion call to parents, educators, and child psychologists, this book clearly shows how to identify much of the ill that plagues today's youth and root it out. By parents reclaiming their position of authority and educators reestablishing a leadership role and lost standards of excellence, we can fill this generation and those to come with a healthy understanding of themselves and their society.

ISBN-13: 9780761516743
ISBN-10: 0761516743
Publication Date: 8/9/2001
Pages: 320
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Publisher: Prima Lifestyles
Book Type: Hardcover
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