Pushed To The Edge: How To Stop The Child Competition Race So Everyone W [Paperback]

Donna G. Corwin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 4, 2003

Parents want their kids to succeed. But in today's hypercompetitive, high-speed world, too much competition can be dangerous to children's health...causing mental, emotional, and physical problems.

Based on up-to-date research, this guide helps parents distinguish between helpful pushing and harmful pressuring. Whether the issue is kids' sports, body image, extracurricular activities, or academic achievement, parents can find ways to be supportive and encourage healthy competition and achievement...as well as teach their child to resist damaging societal and peer pressure.

Pushed to the Edge helps parents:

€ Nurture their child's uniqueness
€ Teach the value of measured risk
€ Resist the urge to compare their child to others
€ Allow their children to do their own homework
€ Prevent eating disorders and other emotional problems
€ Set standards that make sense
€ and more

Filled with wisdom and practical advice, this is a timely guide for parenting today's stressed-out kids, building their confidence and giving them back the childhood joys that society has taken away.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this guide to encouraging, leading and disciplining children, Corwin stresses that competition, if understood correctly, can actually be a good thing. Admitting she has "pushed her child too far, too fast," the author addresses the social reasons for competition and notes that "we all want what's best for our kids, but each generation sets a standard of 'best'-and today the barrier may be raised too high." She suggests that parents set goals for kids, but not by using "some across-the-board set of standards." Rather, they need to value their children for who they are and for the individual qualities they possess. And it's just as important, she says, for parents to teach their children to communicate effectively and to let their kids fight their own battles. Corwin, who's written for Parenting, Child Magazine, Working Woman and other magazines, employs user-friendly tools, such as charts, questionnaires, exercises and bulleted lists of suggestions to help parents. Her book is a useful aid to parents struggling to keep things in perspective.
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About the Author

Donna Corwin is the bestselling co-author of Time-Out for Toddlers. Her articles have appeared in such publications as USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Denver Post, GQ, Shape, Mademoiselle, and Parenting. She also writes a monthly advice column for the Los Angeles Family Magazine.

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Trade (November 4, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425191869
• ISBN-13: 978-0425191866
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,412,069 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Stop The Child Competition, January 16, 2012

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Laurie_G (Myrtle Beach, SC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pushed To The Edge: How To Stop The Child Competition Race So Everyone W (Paperback)

From the Publisher: Parents want their kids to succeed. But in today's hypercompetitive,
high-speed world, too much competition can be dangerous to children's
health...causing mental, emotional, and physical problems. Based on
up-to-date research, this guide helps parents distinguish between
helpful pushing and harmful pressuring. Whether the issue is kids'
sports, body image, extracurricular activities, or academic
achievement, parents can find ways to be supportive and encourage
healthy competition and achievement...as well as teach their child to
resist damaging societal and peer pressure. Pushed to the Edge helps
parents: Nurture their child's uniqueness . Teach the value of
measured risk, Resist the urge to compare their child to others,
Allow their children to do their own homework, Prevent eating
disorders and other emotional problems, Set standards that make
sense, and more. Filled with wisdom and practical advice, this is a
timely guide for parenting today's stressed-out kids, building their
confidence and giving them back the childhood joys that society has
taken away.

1.0 out of 5 stars Take a pass on this one, August 20, 2010

By 

CH (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pushed To The Edge: How To Stop The Child Competition Race So Everyone W (Paperback)

I had to force myself to keep reading this book to the end. The main point of the book is to let your kids follow their own interests and be who they want to be - I'm not sure I needed to read a book to learn that. I expected this book to be based on research, but very little (if any) of the book referred to studies. Instead, arguments were laid out as fact, when in truth I personally found the book to be nothing more than the author's opinion (and unsupported at that). The book read like a long, fluffy, trite magazine article. Examples ("case studies"??) often included instances of modeling and plastic surgery, which, while may be commonplace in the author's Beverly Hills neighborhood, are not representative of my neighborhood.