IDOLISING CHILDREN
Book ID/图书代码： 10834008B23569
English Summary/英文概要： Obsessed with our own youth and wanting perfect, genius children who live in a world of designer clothes and toys, Idolising Children says it’s time for us to find new ways of parenting and a new kind of childhood. With humor, insight, and emotion, writer Daniel Donahoo reflects on the place of children in contemporary society by looking at everything from fertility rates, childcare, the role of the media and the day-to-day joys and challenges of being a parent.
Donahoo argues that idolizing is a form of worship that adversely affects children’s development in their early years, and creates citizens who no longer understand their roles and responsibilities. It makes parents feel unnecessarily guilty and anxious. Without blame or finger-pointing, he examines how we came to this point and looks at what needs to change so that communities as a whole are responsible for raising children.
Full of interviews, conversations and popular culture references, this book is written for parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles - anyone with an interest in how our society’s obsession with childhood and youth will impact future generations. It is a passionate plea for a new way of seeing childhood that focuses more on children as people than as somehow separate and different from the rest of humanity.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 我们还沉醉在自己当年的青春时代，依然希冀完美，但如今的这些天才孩子生活在一个充斥着时尚设计师的服装和洋娃娃的世界里。《陷入崇拜热的儿童》指出我们该寻找为人父母的新方法了，以给孩子崭新的童年。Daniel Donahoo从出生率，育儿，媒体的角色，日常乐趣和为人父母的挑战等角度仔细审视了现代社会儿童所处的地位，全书风趣幽默，见解深刻，饱含感情。
Donahoo认为偶像崇拜是崇拜的一种独特形式，会对孩子的早期成长产生负面影响，也会塑造出一批无法明辨自己角色和责任的公民。它让父母产生过多的罪恶感和忧虑感。但作者没有怒发冲冠的责备和批评，他分析了我们如何会走到这一步，探索我们需要改变些什么才能让整个社会对孩子的成长负起责任来。
本书收集了许多采访，对话和流行文化素材，是专门为父母，祖父母，叔叔婶婶——任何对社会过多地怀念过去会如何影响后代这一话题感兴趣的人而著的。书中提出这样一个殷切的希望：另辟新径，将处于童年期的孩子更多得看成和我们一样的人，而不是与成人完全隔离的异类人群。(zyt)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Daniel Donahoo is the author of Idolising Children. He is a fellow at OzProspect a non-partisan, public policy think tank and has worked across a wide range of community service and research organisations.
He lives in rural Victoria with his wife and two children where they explore box-ironbark forest and tend to their vegetable patch which always produces great tomatoes, but never enough basil.
Daniel’s research interests are child and family policy, government-community relationships and the development of more localised government and economic systems. He commentates regularly in Australia’s daily newspapers, magazines and online. Daniel is a regular columist at Online Opinion.
Daniel’s policy ideas have been published by Just Policy, Rattler, Melbourne University’s Centre for Public Policy, Australian Prospect, Griffith Review and New Matilda.
Daniel has finished writing his first book, Idolising Children. It explores the impacts of our society’s obession with childhood and youth. It is now available through UNSW Press.
Daniel Donahoo是《陷入崇拜热的儿童》的作者，也是“澳大利亚展望”---一个非党派的公共政策智囊团的成员。他从事过广泛的社区服务工作，也在许多研究组织工作过。
他与妻子和两个孩子住在维多利亚的乡村，在那儿，他们研究铁皮木森林的状况，打理他们的蔬菜园，园里的西红柿通常长势茂盛，但却从没有足够的罗勒（一种芬芳的常年生草本植物）。
丹尼尔的研究兴趣在于儿童和家庭政策，政府和社区的关系以及日趋地域化的政府和经济体系的发展。他定期在澳大利亚的日报，杂志和网上发表评论，也是“在线之音”的固定专栏评论员。
丹尼尔的政策理念曾由墨尔本大学公共政策中心，Just Policy，Rattler，《澳大利亚展望》，《格里菲斯评论》和NewMatilda等报刊出版过。丹尼尔已经完成了他的第一本书《陷入崇拜热的儿童》。这本书研究了社会对过往的青春和童年的沉醉可能会产生的冲击。现在新南威尔士大学出版社可购得。
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