In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids' Inner Wildness

Author/Contributor(s):	Mercogliano, Chris
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Date:	8/1/2008
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The pressures of modern life are increasingly squeezing the adventure, the wonder, the physicality-the juice -out of children's lives. Virtually every arena of kids' experience is now subject to some form of outside control, and this is a serious threat to the unique spark that animates every child. Lamenting risk-averse parents, overstructured school days, and a lack of playtime and solitude, this book is a clear and compelling plea to save childhood.