Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-213) and index.
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Education and miseducation -- Superkids: miseducation parent style -- The competent child: miseducation in the schools -- Status, competitions, and computers: miseducation as a response to social pressure -- Trust and autonomy versus mistrust, shame, and doubt -- Initiative and belonging versus guit and alienation -- Industry and competence versus inferiority and helplessness -- Making healthy education choices -- Questions parents ask.
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Provides evidence that young children and school-aged children learn in totally different ways and, on that basis, takes issue with the current trend toward early formed academic and physical instruction for children to age four.