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Toxic Childhood How the Modern World Is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do about It

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ISBN-10: 0752880918

ISBN-13: 9780752880914

Edition: 2007

Authors: Sue Palmer

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Every concerned parent MUST have this book! Children throughout the developed world are suffering, with obesity, dyslexia, ADHD, and other serious ailments on the rise. And it's not simply that our diagnostic ability has improved—there are very real and growing problems. Top literacy expert Sue Palmer examines the danger zones, from poor diet, lack of exercise, and sleep deprivation to symptoms emerging from our modern lifestyle of TV, computer games, and cell phones. This combination of factors, along with parents’ increasingly stressful lives, means that we are developing a toxic new generation, with its health and brains at risk. Here is the latest research from around the world, with…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Publication date: 5/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Sue Palmer is a writer, broadcaster and consultant on the education of young children. She is well-known to UK teachers as a specialist in literacy, especially the teaching of writing, but concern about children's lifestyles led her to research and publish the bestselling book TOXIC CHILDHOOD: How the Modern World Is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About It, followed in 2007 by a practical handbook for parents, DETOXING CHILDHOOD: What Parents Need to Know to Raise Bright, Balanced Children, and her most recent book 21ST CENTURY BOYS. Sue is also a popular speaker, addressing thousands of teachers each year across the UK and around the world - and increasingly invited to address…    

Acknowledgements
Author's note
Preface to the Paperback Edition
Introduction: Toxic Childhood Syndrome
Food for Thought
Out to Play
Time for Bed
It's Good to Talk
We are Family
Who's Looking After the Children?
The Best Days of Their Lives
The Word on the Street
The Electronic Village
Manners Maketh Man
Conclusion: Detoxing Childhood
Survey of Primary Teachers
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index