Family & Relationships General
Honey, We Lost the Kids
Re-thinking childhood in the multimedia age
- Publisher
- Second Story Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2005
- Category
- General, Cultural
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926739328
- Publish Date
- Jan 2005
- List Price
- $14.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897187043
- Publish Date
- Dec 2005
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Remember when children grew up in well-defined stages? Adults tried to keep whole areas of life hidden from them – death, bad language, and, of course, sex – and allowed them to step out into the adult world in an orderly, gradual fashion, according to a schedule determined by grown-ups. So it’s no surprise many parents and experts believe that kids today are growing up too quickly, that a toxic combination of TV and films, video games and the Internet are robbing them of childhood. In this straight-talking book, Kathleen McDonnell warns us that we can’t go back to that time when grown-ups and kids knew their place.
About the author
Kathleen McDonnell grew up in Chicago, but has lived in Canada for all of her adult life and graduated with a BA from the University of Toronto. She is the author of nine books of non-fiction and YA fiction. She's also written more than a dozen plays, many of which have had award-winning productions in Canada and the United States. As befits a passionate swimmer, McDonnell lives on Toronto Island; a unique, vibrant, mostly car-free community a ten-minute ferry ride from downtown Toronto where she and her life partner Alec raised their two daughters, Martha and Ivy.
