Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-Thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age - Softcover

McDonnell, Kathleen

9781896764375: Honey, We Lost the Kids: Re-Thinking Childhood in the Multimedia Age

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1896764371 ISBN 13: 9781896764375

Publisher: Second Story Press, 2002

A toxic combination of TV and films, video games and the Internet robs today's kids of their childhoods. Parents were once able to parcel out adult information (sex, death) appropriately as children grew up, allowing a gradual integration into adult life. This straight-talking, mind-bending book tells us that all has changed. In today's media-saturated world, kids routinely see once-forbidden images and words: it's an unfortunately short journey from Blue's Clues to South Park. And we can't return to that mythic time when grown-ups were grown-ups and kids were kids. Whether parents accept it or not, kids are being raised, in part, by the media, and the results are neither pretty-nor predictable. McDonnell challenges parents to get beyond hand-wringing, and be realistic about 21st century childhood in order to help our kids cope with the complex, violent world they're growing up in.

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About the Author:

Kathleen McDonnell is an award-winning writer of adult and children's literature and plays, and a frequent contributor to public media. Her new play is at Canada's Young People's Theater; she won the Chalmers Award for playwriting. She lives in Chicago with her two children.

Review:

What McDonnell brings to the child-rearing debate is the fresh air of perspective, a willingness to challenge easy assumptions, a raised eyebrow for the knee-jerk, and a keen ear for cant. (The Toronto Star)

McDonnell’s is an important voice in an intensifying debate. (Now Magazine)

This ... volume is full of fascinating, relevant material, presented in a down-to-Earth, immensely readable style. (Victoria Times Colonist)

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