The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids Review

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In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders—rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection are combining to create a perfect storm that is devastating children of privilege and their parents alike.

In this eye-opening, provocative, and essential book, clinical psychologist Madeline Levine explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies toxic cultural influences and well-intentioned, but misguided, parenting practices that are detrimental to a child's healthy self-development. Her thoughtful, practical advice provides solutions that will enable parents to help their emotionally troubled "star" child cultivate an authentic sense of self.

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Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love

Parenting Your Out-of-Control Teenager: 7 Steps to Reestablish Authority and Reclaim Love Review

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Every teenager rebels against authority at some point--talks back, breaks curfew, or disobeys. But literally millions of teens take their rebellion to a point where it disrupts their families and endangers their own futures or even their lives. If one of these teens is yours, you've probably lived through years of conflicting advice and pat solutions that don't last. Finally, this breakthrough guide from a master therapist will show you the seven steps to positive, permanent change for you and your teenager:

1. Learn the real reasons for teen misbehavior.
2. Make an ironclad contract to stop that behavior.
3. Troubleshoot future problems.
4. End button-pushing.
5. Stop the "seven aces" -- from disrespect to threats of violence.
6. Mobilize outside help.
7. Reclaim lost love within the family.

Clear, compassionate, and packed with real-life solutions to real-life problems, this book gives parents the tools they need to turn their families' lives around for good.

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Power Wheels Disney Princess Tot Rod

Power Wheels Disney Princess Tot Rod Review

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Power Wheels Disney Princess Tot Rod Feature

• This flashy roadster can be configured to be used in 2 different ways to suit your child's stage of development. The first stage, which is designed for the tiniest drivers, features a parent-assist handle that allows you to control the steering.
• When your child is ready, simply remove the parent-assist handle to allow your little one to enjoy independent driving fun.
• The Tot Rod allows little speedsters to travel over hard surfaces and grass at a safe and exciting 2 mph.
• Your little driver will love the Tot Rod's delightful styling, which features a collection of Disney Princesses. Its kid-friendly design features push-button acceleration for easy stop-and-go driving, a high bucket seat and wide door openings

The Power Wheels Disney Princess Tot Rod offers 2 stages of driving fun. In stage 1, a parent-assist handle allows mom and dad to control steering for exciting trips together. When your child is ready to go for a drive alone, you can simply remove the handle. Kids love tot-friendly design features like an activity dash with a pretend turn signal, clicking key and knobs, push-button operation for easy stop and go, a high-back bucket seat, wide door openings and a pretty design scheme that features the beloved Disney Princesses. This slick roadster is designed to drive over hard surfaces and grass at a safe 2 mph.

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Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times

Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times Review

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They go by many names: helicopter parents, hovercrafts, PFHs (Parents from Hell). The news media is filled with stories of well-intentioned parents going to ridiculous extremes to remove all obstacles from their child’s path to greatness . . . or at least to an ivy league school. From cradle to college, they remain intimately enmeshed in their children’s lives, stifling their development and creating infantilized, spoiled, immature adults unprepared to make the decisions necessary for the real world. Or so the story goes.

Drawing on a wealth of eye-opening interviews with parents across the country, Margaret K. Nelson cuts through the stereotypes and hyperbole to examine the realities of what she terms “parenting out of control.” Situating this phenomenon within a broad sociological context, she finds several striking explanations for why today’s prosperous and well-educated parents are unable to set realistic boundaries when it comes to raising their children. Analyzing the goals and aspirations parents have for their children as well as the strategies they use to reach them, Nelson discovers fundamental differences among American parenting styles that expose class fault lines, both within the elite and between the elite and the middle and working classes.

Nelson goes on to explore the new ways technology shapes modern parenting. From baby monitors to cell phones (often referred to as the world’s longest umbilical cord), to social networking sites, and even GPS devices, parents have more tools at their disposal than ever before to communicate with, supervise, and even spy on their children. These play important and often surprising roles in the phenomenon of parenting out of control. Yet the technologies parents choose, and those they refuse to use, often seem counterintuitive. Nelson shows that these choices make sense when viewed in the light of class expectations.

Today’s parents are faced with unprecedented opportunities and dangers for their children, and are evolving novel strategies to adapt to these changes. Nelson’s lucid and insightful work provides an authoritative examination of what happens when these new strategies go too far.

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TITANIUM INTERNET SECURITY 1U ONLINE (SOFTWARE - UTILITIES)

TITANIUM INTERNET SECURITY 1U ONLINE (SOFTWARE - UTILITIES) Review

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Strong, fast and easy-to-use Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security provides protection for what you do online. It s an advanced security solution that safeguards you, your family, and your data.

Titanium uses cloud technology to proactively stop viruses, spyware, and other threats before they reach your computer, so it won t slow you down. It s the same technology we use to protect some of the world s biggest businesses. Now, it s available to you and includes parental controls, data theft prevention, secure online storage, and more.

With Trend Micro Titanium Internet Security, your digital life is protected.

Key Benefits:

• Automatically stops threats before they reach your computer.
• Uses less than half the disk space and memory of competing security products
• Monitors and limits kids' online activity and access to inappropriate content.
• Keeps your information like credit card numbers and passwords private
• Allows storing and sharing up to 2 GB of your precious photos, documents and more in the cloud.
• Protects your Mac devices.

Features:

• Get essential protection:
• EXCLUSIVE: Utilizes Trend Micro Smart Protection Network to proactively stop threats before they reach you.
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Sleeping Dogs

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Sleeping Dogs Feature

• A mature and gritty undercover cop drama, set in a high tension underworld where every action is a risk that could blow your cover
• Seamless explosive action fueled by a mix of deadly martial arts, intense gunfights and brutal takedowns.
• Epic high-speed thrills: Burn up the streets as you ram other cars and drive recklessly while shooting your way through the narrow streets of Hong Kong.
• Hong Kong is your playground: Enter illegal races, gamble on cock fights, or kick back with some karaoke. There are countless ways to explore the varied districts of the city.

Welcome to Hong Kong, a vibrant neon city teeming with life, whose exotic locations and busy streets hide one of the most powerful and dangerous criminal organizations in the world: the Triads. In this open-world game, you play the role of Wei Shen, an undercover cop trying to take down the Triads from the inside. You'll have to prove yourself worthy as you fight your way up the organization, taking part in brutal criminal activities without blowing your cover. Torn between your loyalty to the badge and the code of the triads, you will risk everything as the lines between truth and honor become permanently blurred.

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LookSmart Net Nanny 5.0 Parental Control Software

LookSmart Net Nanny 5.0 Parental Control Software Review

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LookSmart Net Nanny 5.0 Parental Control Software Feature

• The expanded set of Can't Go and Can Go Websites keep your children's eye away from material that parents may find objectionable
• New blocking software prevents cookies and pop-up ads from infesting your screen & memory
• Track activity remotely by email, and submit possibly objectionable Websites for inclusion into the Net Nanny database
• Specify daily time limits for browsing online
• Block file sharing and data transfer clients

Net Nanny provides you with a broad set of Internet safety tools. It allows you to safeguard your privacy, stop pornography and other objectionable material from coming into your home, and limit your children's online activities.

Net Nanny lets you filter and block Web sites by URL or keyword, and filter content in e-mail, IRC chat, and newsgroups. Limit access to your PC by time of day and total amount of connect time, or restrict access to online activities (chat, instant messengers, games, file sharing). Protect confidential information, block pop-up and pop-under advertisements, and block Internet cookies. You can also monitor Internet activity for an individual, a group, or all users.

Net Nanny is a First Amendment-friendly Internet filtering application--users have complete access to the program's database of Web sites, keywords, and Internet-enabled applications.


With Net Nanny 5, responsible adults will take charge of their children's safety while they explore online! Set up a kiosk mode, for a computer that's used by many -- each person will get their own level of access to the Internet Enhanced logging and reporting tools, plus log rotation for preventing hard disk failure Make sure your children view appropriate content when going online with Net Nanny!

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