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Artificial Maturity: Helping Kids Meet The Challenge Of Becoming Authentic Adults (2012)

by Tim Elmore(Favorite Author)

4.03 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1118258061 (ISBN13: 9781118258064)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Jossey-Bass

review 1: I like aspects of this book. I'm a big believer in children being provided with clear boundaries, but also given plenty of independence. I hate it with parents say that they just want to be friends with their teenager. I totally agree with the author when he says that the trend has been to give too little independence to children, out of fears of personal harm and stranger danger and just low expectations, and too much independence to teens and college age students. Adolescence should NOT end at age 35. I agree that kids should be given chores to do and expected to have a job during high school and pay rent if they move back home as an adult.That being said, the author ALSO believes that anyone who isn't cisgender and straight has been tainted by BPA in foods. And CANNOT s... moretop bringing up Second Life. He brought it up in his previous books as well. He's convinced that this is the worst game ever and based on his descriptions he doesn't even know that the game is. And he is best buds with the president of Chick-Fil-A. So while I think he raises some good points about instilling good values in children through high expectations, if the end result was a lesbian atheist MMOG-player he'd probably consider it a parenting fail, while I'd say that all of those characteristics are irrelevant to a person's personal integrity.
review 2: I read this book as I prepared for co-leading a presentation and group discussion on raising our kids in this age of rapidly changing digital technology. I wanted to better understand the unique cultural climate of "Generation iY." Artificial Maturity provides many insights on that topic, along with some concrete suggestions for parents/educators/leaders to help raise the emotional and spiritual maturity levels of Gen iY-ers. Of course, not all young people in that age bracket exactly fit the Gen iY definition. But I am impressed with how the overall description seems to ring true. Those are some of the PRO's. The CON's I found reading this book include Elmore's somewhat disorganized and halting writing style. It feels a little like listening to a CD with "skips" every once in a while. [I'm dating myself...definitely not a member of Gen iY!] Elmore seems to have adopted a structured, outlined approach, but never quite succeeds. There are many numbered or bulleted lists, so many that it can take some work to keep track of them. And I sometimes had trouble deciphering the purpose of a list as I would begin to read it. Also, it seems to me that the content of this book does not warrant its 272 pages, but could have been covered in far fewer pages.So, a mixed bag. But I'm glad to have read it and gained a better understanding of Generation iY. less

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