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THE REMADE PARENT: Why We Are Losing Our Children & How We Can Get Them Back
In today’s battle for the hearts and minds of our kids, who is winning? Are parents? Or are our sons and daughters disappearing from our lives?
In The ReMade Parent, Brett Hetherington helps mothers and fathers recognize how, why and where their parenting is under the greatest pressure. He explains the deeper reasons for men too often failing in their role as fathers and looks truthfully at the current phenomenon of many mothers increasingly “opting out” of being genuinely involved in their children’s lives.
This book says that the recent global economic recession has provided us with the perfect moment to re-think and then re-make parenting. Drawing from years of personal case-experiences, extensive research and original interviews with real parents, the author wakes us up to the simple fact that we can all do better as those responsible for bringing up our kids. He argues that most of young people’s problems in the 21st century begin either before or outside of school but too often they become destructive in the classroom. He makes clear how the solutions start with us, as mothers and fathers.
The ReMade Parent also raises serious questions about how our rapid-paced working lives mean that our sons and daughter’s needs are too often overlooked. It uncovers exactly how and why our kids are slipping away from us and suggests what to watch out for. The author provides concrete ways we can change and explains why we may have to. He also examines whether Spain is the ideal place for bringing up kids.
Finally, Brett Hetherington offers an optimistic picture of ‘The ReMade Parent’ the carer we all have within us, waiting to be awakened – a new kind of thoughtful, understanding, and physically present parent. One that will provide the “continuous care, concern and affection” that our children need now more than ever.
In The ReMade Parent, Brett Hetherington helps mothers and fathers recognize how, why and where their parenting is under the greatest pressure. He explains the deeper reasons for men too often failing in their role as fathers and looks truthfully at the current phenomenon of many mothers increasingly “opting out” of being genuinely involved in their children’s lives.
This book says that the recent global economic recession has provided us with the perfect moment to re-think and then re-make parenting. Drawing from years of personal case-experiences, extensive research and original interviews with real parents, the author wakes us up to the simple fact that we can all do better as those responsible for bringing up our kids. He argues that most of young people’s problems in the 21st century begin either before or outside of school but too often they become destructive in the classroom. He makes clear how the solutions start with us, as mothers and fathers.
The ReMade Parent also raises serious questions about how our rapid-paced working lives mean that our sons and daughter’s needs are too often overlooked. It uncovers exactly how and why our kids are slipping away from us and suggests what to watch out for. The author provides concrete ways we can change and explains why we may have to. He also examines whether Spain is the ideal place for bringing up kids.
Finally, Brett Hetherington offers an optimistic picture of ‘The ReMade Parent’ the carer we all have within us, waiting to be awakened – a new kind of thoughtful, understanding, and physically present parent. One that will provide the “continuous care, concern and affection” that our children need now more than ever.
181 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2013
About the author
Brett Hetherington
4 books10 followersI am the author of "Slow Travels in Unsung Spain" and "The Remade Parent."
I am a regular commentator on Spain's social and cultural life for Australia’s ABC Radio and a columnist for Catalonia Today magazine.
I am also a freelance writer and teacher. Some of my work has appeared in The Guardian online, The Australian Journalism Review, Barcelona Metropolitan and Monocle guides.
I live with my partner/wife Paula and our young adult son Hugo in Catalonia's Barcelona region.
You can visit my homepage at: http://www.bretthetherington.net/
https://bretthetherington.substack.com/
or Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrettHethering
or Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tn...
I am a regular commentator on Spain's social and cultural life for Australia’s ABC Radio and a columnist for Catalonia Today magazine.
I am also a freelance writer and teacher. Some of my work has appeared in The Guardian online, The Australian Journalism Review, Barcelona Metropolitan and Monocle guides.
I live with my partner/wife Paula and our young adult son Hugo in Catalonia's Barcelona region.
You can visit my homepage at: http://www.bretthetherington.net/
https://bretthetherington.substack.com/
or Twitter: https://twitter.com/BrettHethering
or Youtube
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tn...
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