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Introduction 1
Chapter 1 – Parenting from the Bench 7
Hockey Dad 8
Children Once Grew Up; Now We Raise Them 11
The Island Family and the Family Island 15
Childhood Revolution 17
What We Worry About 22
The Worry Ball 26
Painful, Non-Catastrophic Failure 28
The Park Bench 30
Chapter 2 – Obligated Parents and Entitled Kids 35
The Age of Entitlement 39
Getting Perspective 42
Whose Problem Is It? 46
Minding versus Acting 48
Too Much of a Good Thing 51
Stories of Woe 53
Chapter 3 – "I Don't Want to Grow Up" 61
The Problem of Reality 65
The Terrible Twos 68
Power Struggles 71
Master and Slave 75
Gaining Respect 80
Chapter 4 – School and the "Looming Conveyor Belt of Life" 89
"Will This Be on the Exam?" 92
Trusting Teachers 94
Please and Appease 97
Don't Be a Homework Cop 101
Finding Flow 104
Minding the Children 107
Chapter 5 – Sex, Drugs and Video Games 115
Doomed to Fail 120
Being Bad 124
Scary Digital Age 129
The Handheld Danger 132
The Book on Facebook 135
Being Interested 136
Chapter 6 – Cheering Failure 145
Teenage Wasteland 147
United We Stand; Divided We Fall 150
The Two-Headed Parenting Monster 154
External Authority 158
Beyond Praise 160
Everyone Screws Up 164
Chapter 7 – Disabilities, Disorders and Disasters 171
Special Needs in Childhood 175
Learned Helplessness 177
Illnesses, Disorders and Labels 180
Frontal Lobes 184
Avoidance Disorder—Not Otherwise Specified 187
Suicide 192
A Happy Ending for Philippe 196
Chapter 8 – Building a Village 201
The Tree Fort 204
The Ingredients of a Village 206
Us Against Them 209
Safety Second 214
Over-Caring 216
Sharing the Load 218
Chapter 9 – Building an Adult 223
Looking After Yourself 226
From Child to Adult 228
Some Essential "Scraped Knees" of Childhood: When a Child Can Handle What 232
Parental Perspective = A Confident Child 237
Doing Your Best 241
Acknowledgments 245
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