{"product_id":"family-unfriendly-how-our-culture-made-raising-kids-much-harder-than-it-needs-to-be-hardcover","title":"Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than It Needs to Be - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTimothy P. Carney\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eAlienated America\u003c\/em\u003e traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In \u003cem\u003eFamily Unfriendly\u003c\/em\u003e, bestselling author and \u003cem\u003eWashington Examiner\u003c\/em\u003e columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHave more kids, have more fun, cancel the travel soccer games, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an old-fashioned view, but every day the evidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research--both as a reporter and as a dad of six--Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The high standards set for modern American parenting are unrealistic and setting parents--and our kids--up to fail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResearched over three years and written in between rec baseball games and church picnics where nobody was watching the kids, \u003cem\u003eFamily Unfriendly \u003c\/em\u003eis deeply wise, energetically told, and destined to be the most consequential book about parenting in years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 9.5 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42701365870688,"sku":"9780063236462","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bijoucc.myshopify.com\/products\/family-unfriendly-how-our-culture-made-raising-kids-much-harder-than-it-needs-to-be-hardcover","provider":"CARIBBEAN CONNECT","version":"1.0","type":"link"}