EDCI: 597
Middle Grades Philosophy, Organization and
Climate
Book Review Assignment
Maggie Yen
The Hurried Child- Growing
up too fast too soon
By David Elkind
ISBN 0-201-07397-8
Ashland University Library
Contents
Part 1- Our Hurried Children
CH 1 Our Hurried Children
CH 2 The Dynamics of
Hurrying: Parents
CH 3 The Dynamics of
Hurrying: School
CH 4 The Dynamics of
Hurrying: The Media
Part 2 – Hurried Children:
Stressed Children
CH 5 Growing Up Slowly
CH 6 Learning to Be Social
CH 7 Hurried Children:
Stressed Children
CH 8 How Children Reacted
to Stress
CH 9 Helping Hurried Children
Highlights of the book
• Learning process must take the child’s perceptions
and stage of development into account
• Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and
feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to
substitute ours for theirs.
• Early ripe, early rot
• Human intelligence is thus best understood as an
extension of this adaptation
Sources of stress
Parents
School
• Learning too early
• The level of materials are over
children’s ability
• Too many schedules
• Pressure of score and test
• Bad relationship of parents
• Students in Asia study very
hard
• Force children do something
they don’t really enjoy
• Too many teachers in each
subject
Media
• Too much information
• Too much effect and impact
Four stages of children’s development:
• Sensorimotor Period
• Preoperational Period
• Concrete operational Period
• Formal operational Period
Social Issues
• Parents-Child Contracts
• Freedom-Responsibility
• Achievement and support
• Contractual violations and Hurrying
• Single-parents Families and Contracts
Change
• Do not ever confront the tough with toughness
to students
• Use softness to overcome hardness
• Use media to teach students appropriately
• Relationship is everything
Reflection
I think not so much that it is a book of education,
than it is a book about life growing up. Parents,
teachers and even the people who are not the
parents yet should read this book. We will learn
something from it.
We all should understand that things will develop
in the opposite direction when they become
Extreme.
It’s a great book for all
adult, let’s understand and
take account of our
children!!
You will enjoy to read it!!