Toxic Childhood: How The Modern World Is Damaging Our Children And What We Can Do About It

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During the early 19 th Century, many working-class children worked in factories, mines, and mills. They often worked long-hours and in unsafe conditions, which had negative consequences for their health, and could sometimes even result in children suffering injuries or dying at work. It doesn’t matter a jot whether parents are heterosexual or gay; we have two genders with very different agendas and approaches. We need children to experience them both to gain a balance. In the same way, this generation of parents have certainly missed out on witnessing the parenting skills of their own parents as we entered the arena of full time working mothers and fathers. Families have drifted away from the familiar. There is a tension between adults and offspring which cannot be resolved through angry outbursts. And so it goes on.

There have been several changes to the lives of children since the early 19 th century, and we can break these down as follows: Marketisation from 1988 has greatly increased the role of testing in schools. This has led to a narrowing of the curriculum as more time is spent on teaching children to jump through the hoops required to pass exams. One in six children in the developed world is diagnosed as having ‘developmental or behavioural problems’– this book explains why and shows what can be done about it.Work – Policies which regulated and restricted child labour, leading to the eventual exclusion of children from paid work. The view in the question is associated with the ‘ March of Progress view’ of childhood – that society and the family have both become more child centred. Children throughout the developed world are suffering: instances of obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, bad behaviour and so on are all on the rise. And it’s not simply that our willingness to diagnose has increased; there are very real and growing problems. Below I summarise some of the ways aspects of childhood today may still be toxic! The decline of outdoor play

At the same time, however, they are more than happy to take the billions of dollars they’ve made from these products and run companies which actively seek to addict more and more people, including children, to the precise same products they want to protect their own children from. Our consumer society leads us to believe that the more costly and complex an item is, the more its value – this is not the case with children. (Although in a way it is true: human beings are complex and these days their time is costly…and time with the human beings who are most special to them is what children most need and crave.)’According to the industry’s own regulator, the Gambling Commission, around 450 000 children, or one in six of all those aged 11-15 now gamble at least once a week.