Childhood Unbound

I am reading an interesting new book on parenting. The author is Ron Taffel. Taffel is a therapist and a writer/thinker on family issues. I have always found him insightful and jargon free. The book is entitled Childhood Unbound and the premise is that there has been a major shift in the way we rear our children, the way children and adolescents experience the world around them and though these changes may seem frightening there is more good than bad in them. Taffel suggests that the 'generation gap' has disappeared but has been replaced by the the tendency to seek both separation and closeness within families. He points out that adults raising children today have much more in common with their children than our parents had with us. This is an excellent companion book to Staying Connected to Your Teenager by Michael Riera.
I highly recommend this to parents and therapists alike who are trying to figure it all out.

Childhood Unbound by Ron Taffel, PhD