Daphne Maeweather
FAM 352
Book Review
Summary
Author Madeline Levine wrote a non-fictional book titled The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Levine wrote this book to bring awareness to the psychological, mental health issues that affluent adolescents face in their daily lives. Levine wanted her book to shed light on the seriousness of these problems, and to address how unhealthy parenting practices of affluent families affect the child’s self-development. Levine dedicates this book to her husband, Lee and their three sons, Loren, Michael, and Jeremy for all the love, inspiration, support and encouragement they give her.
Levine, a practicing psychologist …show more content…
Researching parenting styles of affluent families, she discovered parental dilemmas that differ from lower socioeconomic. Levine uses patient stories to help us understand how parenting styles can affect psychological development issues in children when parents pressure them into valuing their views instead of their own views, like the difference between parents being intrusive or involved. Second, she explains how important it is for a child to have a well-developed autonomy because this allows kids to see the world through their own eyes without the worry of disappointing their parents, like the difference between encouraging autonomy and laying down rules. Levine also wrote about the effects of materialism, perfectionism, and disconnection as elements combining to create a crisis epidemic that is devastating to children of privilege and their …show more content…
She gave special thanks to Tim Kasser, Elliot Stein, and David Goldman, M.D., Richard A. Lannon, and her patients (Levine, 2008). Aside from the people listed above, Levine’s source of information came from her personal background knowledge as a mother living in an affluent neighborhood raising three kids, her observation of her patients, lots of conversations with colleague from around the world, her special friend, Suniya Luther, Chairman of the Department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College and two neuroscientists Elliot Stein, and David Goldman, M.D., from the National Institute of Health (Levine, 2008).
I find Levine’s sources of information credible because Levine holds a Ph.D. and she has over two decades of experience treating troubled teens, she is known for her work on her book titled Viewing Violence See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children from Media Violence. Her information is up to date with the parenting issues of today and it is backed by a host of colleagues with expertise in this field. Levine properly cites all sources used throughout the book and at the end of the book in the Notes section, she lists every reference used in the chapter where the source
FAM 352
Book Review
Summary
Author Madeline Levine wrote a non-fictional book titled The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids. Levine wrote this book to bring awareness to the psychological, mental health issues that affluent adolescents face in their daily lives. Levine wanted her book to shed light on the seriousness of these problems, and to address how unhealthy parenting practices of affluent families affect the child’s self-development. Levine dedicates this book to her husband, Lee and their three sons, Loren, Michael, and Jeremy for all the love, inspiration, support and encouragement they give her.
Levine, a practicing psychologist …show more content…
Researching parenting styles of affluent families, she discovered parental dilemmas that differ from lower socioeconomic. Levine uses patient stories to help us understand how parenting styles can affect psychological development issues in children when parents pressure them into valuing their views instead of their own views, like the difference between parents being intrusive or involved. Second, she explains how important it is for a child to have a well-developed autonomy because this allows kids to see the world through their own eyes without the worry of disappointing their parents, like the difference between encouraging autonomy and laying down rules. Levine also wrote about the effects of materialism, perfectionism, and disconnection as elements combining to create a crisis epidemic that is devastating to children of privilege and their …show more content…
She gave special thanks to Tim Kasser, Elliot Stein, and David Goldman, M.D., Richard A. Lannon, and her patients (Levine, 2008). Aside from the people listed above, Levine’s source of information came from her personal background knowledge as a mother living in an affluent neighborhood raising three kids, her observation of her patients, lots of conversations with colleague from around the world, her special friend, Suniya Luther, Chairman of the Department of Clinical and Developmental Psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College and two neuroscientists Elliot Stein, and David Goldman, M.D., from the National Institute of Health (Levine, 2008).
I find Levine’s sources of information credible because Levine holds a Ph.D. and she has over two decades of experience treating troubled teens, she is known for her work on her book titled Viewing Violence See No Evil: A Guide to Protecting Our Children from Media Violence. Her information is up to date with the parenting issues of today and it is backed by a host of colleagues with expertise in this field. Levine properly cites all sources used throughout the book and at the end of the book in the Notes section, she lists every reference used in the chapter where the source