Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults
Author(s): Tim Elmore (Author)
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Publication Date: 29 Jun. 2012
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 272 pages
ISBN-10: 9781118258064
ISBN-13: 9781118258064
Book Description
How to raise kids who can handle the real world
Today’s Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and paradoxically are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. Artificial Maturity addresses the problem of what to do when parents and teachers mistake children’s superficial knowledge for real maturity. The book is filled with practical steps that adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their abilities with authentic maturity.
Shows how to identify the problem of artificial maturity in Generation iY and Homelanders
Reveals what to do to help children balance autonomy, responsibility, and information
Includes a down-to-earth model for coaching and guiding youth to true maturity
Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion.
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artificial maturity
Today’s Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and, paradoxically, are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. This overexposure/underexposure produces artificial maturity. For many of our young people, the speed at which data reaches them has slowed down their actual maturity.
Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership that kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion, including practical steps adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their consumption of information with true development. These steps are centered on four keys for transforming artificial maturity into authentic maturity:
Provide autonomy and responsibility simultaneously
Provide information and accountability simultaneously
Provide experiences to accompany teens’ technology-savvy lifestyles
Provide community-service opportu-nities to balance self-service time
Also featured are helpful ideas, projects, and traditions gleaned from parents, teachers, and others who affect children’s lives, which enable the kids under their care to mature and become healthy adults.
From the Back Cover
Today’s Generation iY (teens brought up with the Internet) and Homelanders (children born after 9/11) are overexposed to information at an earlier age than ever and, paradoxically, are underexposed to meaningful relationships and real-life experiences. This overexposure/underexposure produces artificial maturity. For many of our young people, the speed at which data reaches them has slowed down their actual maturity.
Artificial Maturity gives parents, teachers, and others who work with youth a manual for understanding and practicing the leadership that kids so desperately need to mature in a healthy fashion, including practical steps adults can take to furnish the experiences kids need to balance their consumption of information with true development. These steps are centered on four keys for transforming artificial maturity into authentic maturity:
Provide autonomy and responsibility simultaneously
Provide information and accountability simultaneously
Provide experiences to accompany teens’ technology-savvy lifestyles
Provide community-service opportunities to balance self-service time
Also featured are helpful ideas, projects, and traditions gleaned from parents, teachers, and others who affect children’s lives, which enable the kids under their care to mature and become healthy adults.
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About the Author
THE AUTHOR
DR. TIM ELMORE is the founder and president of Growing Leaders. Through Growing Leaders, Elmore and his team teach middle school, high school, and college students the skills they need to become authentic leaders. He has shared his insights in more than thirty countries and has written more than twenty-five books, including Habitudes TM: Images That Form Leadership Habits and Attitudes and Generation iY: Our Last Chance to Save Their Future.
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