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Hold On to Your Kids
- Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
- Narrated by: Gabor Maté
- Length: 13 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Brought to you by Penguin.
Children take their lead from their friends: being 'cool' matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents.
But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous - it undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development and fosters a hostile and sexualised youth culture. Children end up becoming conformist, anxious and alienated.
In Hold on to Your Kids, acclaimed physician and best-selling author Gabor Maté joins forces with Gordon Neufeld, a psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting. Together they pinpoint the causes of this breakdown and offer practical advice on how to 'reattach' to sons and daughters, establish the hierarchy at home, make children feel safe and understood, and earn back your children's loyalty and love. This updated edition also addresses the unprecedented parenting challenges posed by the rise of digital devices and social media.
By helping to reawaken our instincts, Maté and Neufeld empower parents to be what nature intended: a true source of contact, security and warmth for their children.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-2021
Mandatory for anyone with a child - teen or not
This is an essential book for anyone with children. It gave me a vocabulary an articulated understanding of what happens , has happened and how I as a parent can reconnect with my child.
If you care about your child - listen to this.
Any Gabor Maté is worth while enhancing your life with, this is 100% necessary as a parent or person who cares for a growing child / adolescent/ teen.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-07-2021
Amazing!
Great, book with powerful insights. Thank you both for your amazing work. it has chaged the way I vewi attachment.
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- 29-04-2022
Very insightful!
This has opened my perspective, in what I went through as a child as well as how to be more understanding as a care giver.
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- andrew
- 20-09-2022
An essential
Wow!
One of the most important books to read as a parent.
Positively World changing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-10-2022
Best advice I’ve heard in parenting
This is a must read for parents . I think some of the recommendations I’m implementing are dramatically impacting the relationship and influence I have on my difficult child
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- Anonymous User
- 08-11-2022
Changed my world view, and I have a PhD in child development!
Worth the full read. Hold onto you Kids shows us how to discipline without breaking the most important bond in the world: our parental attachments. I found it truly helpful, and I’ve been studying and researching (full time!) the area for decades!
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- Imaginate Seamly
- 26-01-2023
Life-changing
I'm grieving that I didn't find this book when my children were young. One of the most impactful and resonating books I have ever read. Some parts seem repetitive but I believe it's essential to have certain points repeatedly emphasized to fully understand the simplicity of the solution.
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- Rachel
- 25-01-2022
A must read for parents
I’d like to encourage future and current parents to read/listen to this book. It hasn’t given me so much insight into my own parenting journey and tips to correct the direction my child is travelling.
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- Anonymous User
- 27-11-2022
The most eye opening parenting help
Totally enthralling and fascinating. The most educational and insightful book I’ve heard and will change the way in which I parent and seek my attachment with my child forever. Thank you Gabor!
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- Kindle Customer
- 06-01-2023
Great reminder
love it . so many Ah-ha moments . Ways to connect and reframe situations that have been forgotten with our stressful busy lives .
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