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New insights into the anxiety over infant sleep safetyNew parents are inundated with warnings about the fatal risks of “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with a newborn, from medical brochures and website forums, to billboard advertisements and the evening news. In Losing Sleep, Laura Harrison uncovers the origins of the infant sleep safety debate, providing a window into the unprecedented anxieties of modern parenthood. Exploring widespread rhetoric from doctors, public health experts, and the media, Harrison explains why our panic has reached an all-time high. She traces the way safe sleep standards in the United States have changed, and shows how parents, rather than broader systems of inequality that impact issues of housing and precarity, are increasingly being held responsible for infant health outcomes. Harrison shows that infant mortality rates differ widely by race and are linked to socioeconomic status. Yet, while racial disparities in infant mortality point to systemic and structural causes, the discourse around infant sleep safety often suggests that individual parents can protect their children from these tragic outcomes, if only they would make the right choices about safe sleep. Harrison argues that our understanding of sleep-related infant death, and the crisis of infant mortality in general, has burdened parents, especially parents of color, in increasingly punitive ways. As the government takes a more visible role in criminalizing parents, including those whose children die in their sleep, this book provides much-needed insight into a new era of parenthood.

This research-based book covers the core components of modern parenting and child development across multi-ethnic and cross-cultural contexts in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America, with a focus on the United States.Parenting and Child Development: Across Ethnicity and Culture is based on a cohesive framework that links physical, psychological, social, cognitive, and emotional aspects of children's lives to their experiences of parental behavior. This book covers the fundamentals of parent-child relationships, including the theoretical perspective of parenting, positive and negative parenting behaviors, and changing patterns of parenting from infancy through adolescence.Explored are parent-child relationships and their implications for children's health, well-being, and quality of life in different family forms, including parenting in drug-addicted families, homeless families, cohabiting families, single-parent families, and LGBT families around the world. Using an array of theories with relevant empirical findings, the practical implications for child development both within the United States and across the globe are highlighted. Also included is specific information about tools and techniques for measuring intimate relationships and intervention strategies for relationship problems.

Discover how Dutch parents raise The Happiest Kids in the World! Calling all stressed-out parents: Relax! Imagine a place where young children play unsupervised, don't do homework, have few scheduled “activities”... and rank #1 worldwide in happiness and education. It's not a fantasy—it's the Netherlands! Rina Mae Acosta and Michele Hutchison—an American and a Brit, both married to Dutchmen and raising their kids in the Netherlands—report back on what makes Dutch kids so happy and well adjusted. Is it that dads take workdays off to help out? Chocolate sprinkles for breakfast? Bicycling everywhere? Whatever the secret, entire Dutch families reap the benefits, from babies (who sleep 15 hours a day) to parents (who enjoy a work-life balance most Americans only dream of). As Acosta and Hutchison borrow ever-more wisdom from their Dutch neighbors, this much becomes clear: Sometimes the best thing we can do as parents is... less!

O que sabem as pessoas mais felizes do mundo sobre como educar crianças confiantes e capazes O que faz da Dinamarca o país mais feliz do mundo? E quais são os segredos dos pais dinamarqueses para criarem crianças bem-sucedidas, confiantes e felizes? Este guia optimista e prático reúne as ideias de uma psicoterapeuta e de uma mãe - uma dinamarquesa e uma americana casada com um dinamarquês, respectivamente - sobre os hábitos das famílias mais felizes na Terra. O livro oferece conselhos sobre como: - Incentivar jogos livres - Potenciar a autenticidade e a confiança - Fomentar a empatia - Enfatizar o trabalho em equipa sobre as lutas de poder - Comemorar a união Comtópicos práticos e exemplos inspiradores, Pais à maneira dinamarquesa ajudará os pais e educadores a tornar as crianças mais felizes e mais bem integradas. Os elogios da crítica: «Um poderoso novo método de educar crianças [...] ´resilientes e seguras em termos emocionais´ - por outras palavras, exactamente aquilo que todos procuramos.» Revista Mother «Pais à maneira dinamarquesa é, verdadeiramente, uma Bíblia para todos os adultos.» The Glass House Girls «Se os ´adultos´ de todos os países pusessem em prática os princípios delineados em Pais à maneira dinamarquesa, nem que fosse em 50% das suas vidas, oh, o potencial para mudar a Humanidade [...]. Por vezes, um livro tem o poder de remodelar literalmente o mundo tal como o conhecemos, provocando mudanças nas gerações seguintes, que poderão até fazer com que a palavra guerra se torne um conceito do passado difuso e distante.» The Glass House Girls «A cozinha nórdica, o design nórdico, o noir nórdico - a lista de exportações culturais de sucesso tem sido interminável, ao longo da última década, e podemos agora acrescentar-lhe a Educação Nórdica [...] Dir-se-ia que as mães dinamarquesas é que têm razão.» The Post (Copenhaga) «A pesquisa e a honesta reflexão de Alexander sobre como a sua própria prática parental tem sido influenciada e melhorada pela cultura dinamarquesa do marido são valiosos recursos para quaisquer pais que procurem reflectir a respeito das vulnerabilidades do seu próprio estilo de parentalidade. A pesquisa de Sandahl e a sua experiência pessoal e profissional como mãe dinamarquesa e psicoterapeuta reforçam a ideia de que os dinamarqueses têm, de facto, um brilhante talento natural para criar miúdos resilientes e equilibrados. Juntas, as autoras criam um guia parental escrito com ponderação, encorajando a auto-reflexão e oferecendo conselhos úteis sobre como melhor abordar os mais comuns desafios da parentalidade. Pais à maneira dinamarquesa é de leitura obrigatória para os pais originários de qualquer cultura.» Carolyn Rathjen, MSW, LICSW Sobre Pais à maneira dinamarquesa: «Um poderoso novo método de educar crianças [...]'resilientes e seguras em termos emocionais'- por outras palavras, exactamente aquilo que todos procuramos.» Revista Mother «Pais à maneira dinamarquesa é, verdadeiramente, uma Bíblia para todos os adultos.» The Glass House Girls «Se os'adultos'de todos os países pusessem em prática os princípios delineados em Pais à maneira dinamarquesa, nem que fosse em 50% das suas vidas, oh, o potencial para mudar a Humanidade [...]. Por vezes, um livro tem o poder de remodelar literalmente o mundo tal como o conhecemos, provocando mudanças nas gerações seguintes, que poderão até fazer com que a palavra guerra se torne um conceito do passado difuso e distante.» The Glass House Girls «A cozinha nórdica, o design nórdico, o noir nórdico - a lista de exportações culturais de sucesso tem sido interminável, ao longo da última década, e podemos agora acrescentar-lhe a Educação Nórdica [...] Dir-se-ia que as mães dinamarquesas é que têm razão.

International bestsellerAs seen in The Wall Street Journal--from free play to cozy together time, discover the parenting secrets of the happiest people in the worldWhat makes Denmark the happiest country in the world--and how do Danish parents raise happy, confident, successful kids, year after year? This upbeat and practical book presents six essential principles, which spell out P-A-R-E-N-T:Play is essential for development and well-being.Authenticity fosters trust and an'inner compass.'Reframing helps kids cope with setbacks and look on the bright side.Empathy allows us to act with kindness toward others.No ultimatums means no power struggles, lines in the sand, or resentment.Togetherness is a way to celebrate family time, on special occasions and every day. The Danes call this hygge--and it's a fun, cozy way to foster closeness. Preparing meals together, playing favorite games, and sharing other family traditions are all hygge. (Cell phones, bickering, and complaining are not!)With illuminating examples and simple yet powerful advice, The Danish Way of Parenting will help parents from all walks of life raise the happiest, most well-adjusted kids in the world.

A much-needed guide that delivers essential baby and child-care advice while reminding parents to calm down and trust themselves.Parents are more overwhelmed than ever before -- juggling demands on their time as well as conflicting advice from family, friends, frenemies and'experts'on how to achieve parental perfection. Pediatrician Jane Scott has seen this parental anxiety up close, and in The Confident Parent she shares advice on how to cut through the confusion, dial down the insecurities and unhelpful advice, and simply do what countless parents around the world have done throughout history: respond to their little one's needs without overthinking, overstimulating, and overparenting. Informed by a unique global perspective, The Confident Parent shows readers how to be not just better caregivers but happier and more balanced human beings. The book covers the basics of baby and child-care from breastfeeding and sleep training to managing temper tantrums, offering a fresh perspective that's both commonsense and liberating. Takeaways include: • Children are strong and resilient--unless parents teach them not to be. • Picky eating is learned, not innate. • There is such a thing as being too careful. This upbeat and empowering guide shows how small changes can yield big results -- helping both parents and kids feel more secure, confident, and connected.

Il rivoluzionario metodo di educazione danese per crescere i bambini più felici del mondo Pubblicato in 20 Paesi Da oltre 40 anni la Danimarca domina il World Happiness Report, la classifica dei Paesi più felici stilata ogni anno dalle Nazioni Unite, tanto da diventare oggetto di studi sociologici. Dopo tredici anni di ricerca e collaborazione, Iben Sandahl, psicologa, e Jessica Joelle Alexander, giornalista americana sposata con un danese, ritengono di aver scoperto il vero segreto della felicità del piccolo Paese del nord e lo svelano in questo manuale rivoluzionario. Sembra che alla base dell'appagamento ci sia il modo in cui genitori e figli si relazionano tra di loro, l'empatia e la capacità degli adulti di offrire strumenti e istruzioni senza porre ultimatum ai piccoli. Sandahl e Alexander sono riuscite nell'intento di scrivere una guida pratica, da poter seguire passo passo per analizzare i propri comportamenti, evitare errori e orientare i propri metodi educativi nella giusta direzione. «I danesi hanno un approccio basato sul buon senso nell'educazione dei loro figli. Le autrici sono due grandi sostenitrici del tempo libero non organizzato. In altri paesi, c'è una forte pressione sui genitori affinché riempiano il tempo libero dei propri figli con attività dopo-scuola, come attività sportive o musicali. Siamo diventati una generazione di papà e mamme competitivi, ma grazie a questo manuale possiamo cambiare.» The Huffington Post Jessica AlexanderJessica Joelle Alexander è un'autrice e giornalista americana. Laureata in psicologia, è da sempre appassionata di studi sulle differenze culturali. Collabora con l'«Huffington Post», «The Copenhagen Post» e il «Local Denmark». Sposata con un danese da oltre quindici anni, parla quattro lingue e vive in Europa con la sua famiglia. Iben SandahlIben Dissing Sandahl è una psicoterapeuta specializzata in Narrative Exposure Therapy (NET) e lavora soprattutto in campo familiare. Firma autorevole di riviste e giornali specializzati, è spesso ospite in radio e televisioni nazionali danesi. È sposata e ha due figlie.

How American childhood and parenting have changed from the nation's founding to the presentThe End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans'attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world.Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant—who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative.Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future.