THE REMADE PARENT

(Why We Are Losing Our Children & How We Can Get Them Back) 

Author: Brett Hetherington

CHAPTERS:

1. REMAKING PARENTING:  

• Introduction
• The Economic Crisis: A Perfect Time To Rethink Parenting
• Why Is The Remaking Of Modern Parenting Necessary?
• What Is A Parent Anyway?

2.  PREVENTING THE EXTINCTION OF THE FATHER & THE DEMISE OF THE MOTHER:

•   Oh, Father! Where Art Thou?
•   Fathers Of Substance
•   So, What Can We Do To Remake Fathering?
•   “Mother, You Had Me…But I Never Had You”
•   So, What Can We Do To Remake Mothering?
•   Childcare: The Comfort of Convenience
•   Work Beats Life
•   Just A Parent – The Status of Parents
•  A Product For Every Parent: Advertising and “The Rattling of a Stick Inside a Swill Bucket”
•   So, What Can We Do To Lift The Status of Parents and Put The Raising of Our Children First?

 3.  PROTEST & PRESSURE – PARENTS & SCHOOLS:

• The ‘Jason Phenomenon’
•   The Policy of Excluding
• The Battle To Achieve
• Stresses From Schooling
• So, What Can We Do to Remake How We Deal with Our Kid’s Education?

 4.  UNDER-NOURISHED, UNDER-LOVED… UNDER-PARENTED: Recognising ourselves and our own in children and parents from across the world

•   Under-nourished Kids (Ricky)
•   Children of the Ritalin Revolution  (James)
•   Freedom In All The Wrong Places (Sandra)
•   Carers That Hurt You – Sexual Abuse (Jenny)
•   Over-Parenting: ‘ The Anti-Parent’ (Aaron and Deidre)
•   ‘God’s Creation:’ The Sony Play Station (Bob)
•   Parenting In The Era Of Distraction (Aden and Sara)
•   Book In Your Baby Birth (Laura)
•   Brought Up To Give Up…And Raised To Fall Down (Sally)
•   So, What Can We Do To Ensure That We Don’t Under-Parent?

5. SPAIN: A PARENT’S PARADISE?

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• “In this country people care about kids” – The Case For.

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  “Children here are not raised to be internationally-minded” – The Case Against.

• So, What Can We Learn From Spain’s Parents and Children?

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6. THE REMADE PARENT:      

• The Remade Parent
• A ‘Minimally Decent’ Life
• A Path to Empathy
• In Us, We Trust
• The Importance Of Play
• In Praise Of Praising
• Both Human And Humane
• So, How Can We Live As Remade Parents?