"Esolen signals with this book his presence in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism." -American Spectator Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in Child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood.
Interwoven throughout this indispensable guide to Child rearing is a rich tapestry of the literature, music, art, and thought that once enriched the.
With charming stories from his own boyhood and an assist from the master authors and thinkers of the Western tradition, Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child is a welcome respite from the overwhelming banality of contemporary culture.
But Esolen doesn\'t stop at pointing out the problem; he offers clear solutions as well.
Esolen shows how Imagination is snuffed out at practically every turn: in the rearing of children almost exclusively indoors; in the flattening of love to sex education, and sex education to prurience and hygiene; in the loss of traditional childhood games; in the refusal to allow children to organize themselves into teams; in the effacing of the glorious differences between the sexes; in the dismissal of the power of memory, which creates the worst of all possible worlds in school-drudgery without even the merit of imparting facts; in the strict separation of the child\'s world from the adult\'s; and in the denial of the transcendent, which places a low ceiling on the child\'s developing spirit and mind.
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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child takes square aim at these accelerating trends, in a bitingly witty style reminiscent of C.
As author Anthony Esolen demonstrates in this elegantly written, often wickedly funny book, almost everything we are doing to children now constricts their imaginations, usually to serve the ulterior motives of the constrictors. "Esolen signals with this book his presence in the top rank of authors of cultural criticism." -American Spectator Play dates, soccer practice, day care, political correctness, drudgery without facts, television, video games, constant supervision, endless distractions: these and other insidious trends in Child rearing and education are now the hallmarks of childhood
