Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age

Kindlon, Dan

ISBN 10: 0786886242 / ISBN 13: 9780786886241

Published by Miramax, 2003

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Seller Inventory # 0786886242-3-21300511

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Too Much of a Good Thing: Raising Children of Character in an Indulgent Age
• Publisher: Miramax
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0786886242
• ISBN 13: 9780786886241
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 10 ounces

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Synopsis

A thought-provoking guide is filled with a wealth of information for raising well-balanced children in an age of increasing wealth, where we give too much and expect too little, by identifying the "Seven Sins of Indulgence"--Disrespectfulness, Goal-lessness, Narcissism, Naivete, Amorality, Inability to Tolerate Boredom, and Underachievement. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.

About the Author

Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., teaches psychology at Harvard University, where he has been a faculty member for the past seventeen years. The co-author of Raising Cain, a New York Times bestseller, he lives in Boston with his wife and two children.