The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups

"THE COLLAPSE OF PARENTING is academic but practical, simple but deep. If you have time to read only one book this year, read this one." -Meg Meeker, M.D., nationally best-selling author of Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters and Strong Mothers, Strong Sons

In THE COLLAPSE OF PARENTING, internationally acclaimed author Leonard Sax argues that rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can be traced to parents abdicating their authority. The result is children who have no standard of right and wrong, who lack discipline, and who look to their peers and the Internet for direction. Sax shows how parents must reassert their authority-by limiting time with screens, by encouraging better habits at the dinner table, and by teaching humility and perspective-to help their children thrive in an increasingly complicated world.