Reviews for Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity

The average rating for Theorizing the Sexual Child in Modernity based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-12 00:00:00 Andrew Rolston I found this book to be full of excellent advice for parents of highly talented children. While mine are very intelligent and interested in their school and extracurricular activities, they are not in the top 1% of scholars/athletes/musicians that are the intended audience for much of this content. The book is an extended warning signal to parents whose overenthusiastic, overbearing involvement threatens to squelch the exceptional talent of a prodigy. That said, there is good advice for parents of more typical performing children as well, and it was reassuring to know that in most cases, we are not doing anything damaging. I found the authors he referenced to be very interesting, and have a to-read list based on his citations. But my children are not looking to enter medical school or Julliard before adolescence, so the cautions here were a bit far-flung for my family. This would be an important read for a parent inclined to hover over a talented child to the point of demotivating that child, and teaching the parent to step back and intervene in a more positive fashion is the scope of this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-09-15 00:00:00 Travis Mccullough I had this in my possession from my local library for over 2 years. I started it one night and only got through the first few pages. Then left it for another day. I guess your reading is based on your motivation, I feel like I have made many mistakes as a parent but I was not motivated enough to research it. Most parenting or motivational "be happy" books I pick up and skim through and think "I already know this stuff" but I don't fulling follow through with it. Excuse after excuse. Finally, I picked up this book and "forced" myself to read it completely. I know have a notebook full of suggestions, motivations, insights and more on how to be a better parent. I have been working toward it already, to calm the anxiety, stop stressing so much. stop with the busy and rushed schedule. And over the last few years I have gotten better. But this book still had more insight for me and reminded me that it will not take a year or 2 or 5, it will take time, and some people develop faster than others. But I will get there.