Classici dello Sviluppo Infantile Serie

This work illuminates the emotional and psychological issues in raising young children.

Es geht in diesem Buch zum Beispiel um die Frage, ob und wann Mütter „nein“ sagen sollen, um Eifersucht unter den Kindern, um die Entwicklung eines Gefühls für Gut und Böse, um die Situation von Stiefeltern, um die Frage, was eigentlich so „nervt“ im Umgang mit Kindern ...

Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.

Covering child development, this work explores problems of the only child, of stealing and lying, shyness, sex education in schools and the roots of aggression. It provides insight into child behaviour and parental attitudes.

From the preface by Deborah Meier: "We have a long way to go to make John Holt's dream available to all children. But his books make it possible and easier for many of us to join him in the journey." In this enduring classic, rich with deep, original insight into the nature of early learning, John Holt was the first to make clear that, for small children, "learning is as natural as breathing." In his delightful book he observes how children actually learn to talk, to read, to count, and to reason, and how, as adults, we can best encourage these natural abilities in our children.

Since its first publication in 1964, this book has helped two generations of parents and teachers understand what actually happens in the classroom. Holt's astute observation of children, his clear simple style, and his lifelong conviction that we can do better by our children make How Children Fail an enduring classic.

Jean Liedloff offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being, after spending two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians.