Parenting Book Club: Under Pressure

Join us for discussion of a new addition to the Red Tent Sister's parenting book selection: Under Pressure: Putting the child back in childhood, by Carl Honore - au;thor of the bestselling In Praise of Slow. This book was recommended at the last parenting book club by a fellow conscious parent.

"From the bestselling author of In Praise of Slow comes a fascinating and urgent look at childhood today and how we are raising a generation of over-managed, overprotected and overindulged children. Carl Honore explains how our modern approach to child-rearing is backfiring: our kids are fatter, more myopic, more prone to injury, more depressed and more medicated than previous generations. Using startling anecdotes about obsessive parents (including one about the father of a tennis player who drugged all his child's opponents), solid research and personal insight, Honore shows how we are going wrong from the classroom to the home, dispels myths and rallies for change in clear and persuasive prose."

Parenting Book Club events are FREE and last an hour and a half. Babies are welcome. If you choose to purchase the book, rather than getting it from a friend or your local library, please consider supporting Red Tent Sisters with your purchase, rather than your local big box store. Thank you for your support.