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1	The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist For the first time in ten years comes a fully revised edition of the classic book on how and why we hurry our children into adulthood. A professor of child development takes a detailed look at the world of today's children and teens and shows a new generation of parents where hurrying occurs and what we can do about it. NPR sponsorships. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Miseducation: Preschoolers at Risk more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Elkind reveals and explains the serious risks entailed in the current craze for giving formal academic and physical instructions to pre-school children four years old and younger. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Hurried Child-25th Anniversary Edition more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Twenty-five years after it was first published, David Elkind has written a new introduction to this parenting classic. Although they have the very best intentions at heart, parents sometimes expose their children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to low self-esteem, to teenage pregnancy and even to teenage suicide. By blurring the ... see all copies from $7.24! new only from $9.75! \| SVS
4	Ties That Stress: The New Family Imbalance more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist David Elkind, distinguished author of "The Hurried Child", argues that there is a new imbalance in the American family, wrought over the last few decades, which is profoundly affecting the way we rear our children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Sympathetic Understanding of the Child: Birth to Sixteen more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist This unique book is an accessible, "child-centered" introduction to child growth and development. It presents the most up-to-date information in descriptive terms to inform readers about how children look, sound, and behave. Practical and research-based, without being research-oriented, it looks at children over small time periods to reveal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $56.99! \| SVS
6	The Best Schools: How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice more books like this by Thomas Armstrong, Ph.D., David Elkind (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions
7	All Grown Up and No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis, Revised Edition more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Once our society set aside time for adolescents to grow from children to adults, to become accustomed to their expanding bodies and minds. Now the markers that defined passagedifferences in dress, behavior, and responsibilitieshave vanished. The institutions that guarded adolescence, such as family and schools, now expect young adults to deal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.25! \| SVS
8	The Power of Play: How Spontaneous, Imaginative Activities Lead to Happier, Healthier Children more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Best-selling author and distinguished childcare expert David Elkind takes on the "over-scheduled" child syndrome, providing parents with an understanding of, and appreciation for the powerful role of "play" in healthy emotional and academic development. In modern childhood, free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, ... see all copies from $2.05! new only from $4.88! \| first editions
9	All Grown Up & No Place to Go: Teenagers in Crisis more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Best-selling author and child development expert, David Elkind provides parents with an understanding and appreciation of the powerful role of play in healthy emotional and academic development. In modern childhood free, unstructured play time is being replaced more and more by academics, lessons, competitive sports and passive entertainment. ... see all copies from $5.63! new only from $5.63! \| SVS
11	The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Too Fast Too Soon more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Often with the very best intentions, Americans expose their children to overwhelming pressures, pressures that can lead to low self-esteem, to teenage pregnancy, and even to teenage suicide. By blurring the boundaries of what is age appropriate, by expectingor imposingtoo much too soon, we force our kids to grow up too fast, to mimic adult ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Parenting Your Teenager more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Dr. David Elkind, child psychologiest and author of the renowned child development classic "The Hurried Child, " draws on his extensive knowledge of adolescent development to provide practical, sensible advice on all the tough challenges and choices that teenagers and their parents face in the 1990s. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13	Children and Adolescents more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Parenting Your Teenager in the 90's: Practical Information and Advice about Adolescent ... more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Child Development and Education: A Piagetian Perspective more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.04! \| SVS
16 view cover	Proactive Parenting: Guiding Your Child from Two to Six more books like this by Faculty of Tufts University's Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development, David Elkind (Foreword by) add to wishlist From the renowned institute that, for 75 years, has been one of the world's premier centers for the study of how children grow comes this expert guide to the joys and challenges of parenting young children. Pooling their research and practical experience, the faculty of this renowned institute offers a wealth of information and advice in a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.74!
17 view cover	Understanding Your Child from Birth to Sixteen: From Birth to Sixteen more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist Today's parents are raising their children in an environment that no longer provides the strong social support for healthy childrearing that previous generations enjoyed. To help parents cope with these new challenges and the contemporary pressures on young people to grow up fast, well-known child expert David Elkind, has written a practical, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.00! \| first editions \| SVS
18	Miseducatn: Prschl Risk more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.97! \| first editions \| SVS
19	Parents' Guide to Raising Kids Who Love to Learn: Infant to Grade School more books like this by David Elkind, Children's Television Workshop add to wishlist Based on CTW's philosophy that learning is fun, this dynamic work shows parents how to instill a love of learning in their children. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $30.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Studies in Cognitive Development: Essays in Honor of Jean Piaget more books like this by David Elkind (Editor), John H Flavell (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
21	Images of the Young Child: Collected Essays on Development and Education more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.23!
22 view cover	Grandparenting: Understanding Today's Children more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist With emphasis on the kinds of situations and problems grandparents are often exposed to, this book helps its readers understand the differing demands and associated stress on children growing up in today's society. Tour. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Reinventing Childhood more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.00!
24	Development of the child more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25	Child and Society more books like this by David Elkind add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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