Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child

By Frank Furedi. 2002

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Risky investments: Parenting and the production of the ‘resilient child’ (2010, background): “A number of books reflecting this theme have been published in recent years, including Paranoid Parenting (Furedi 2002), A Nation of Wimps (Marano 2008), Under Pressure: Rescuing our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting (Honore 2007), Free-Range Kids (Skenazy 2009), and The Price of Privileg”
Risk, health and parenting culture (2010, background): “Compared to the past, it is a time-and-emotion-expensive enterprise, and one that has increasingly been deemed far too important and difficult to be left up to parents (Furedi 2008).”
Parenting (2015, background): “(Furedi, 2002, p. 5) Drawing on her work with Canadian parents and Beck-Gernsheim’s (1996) idea of life as a “planning project,” Wall (2010), for example, suggests that, together with risk management, there is an increasing preoccupation with control (see also Hoffman, 2013) and planning “to…”
Multiple methods in qualitative research with children: more insight or just more? (2005, background): “…ways that children’s worlds of play and physical activity and their use of public spaces have been constricted and controlled (Blades et al., 1998; Furedi, 2002; Matthews et al., 1999), becoming what David Buckingham describes as ‘privatized and subject to adult supervision’ (Buckingham, 2000:…”