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Endangered Minds Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It Jane M Healy 9780684856209 Books

At a writer's conference years ago, Madeleine L'Engle spoke about the declining attention span of US children as evidenced in the fan letters she received. In her lecture, she referenced this book. Of course I bought it. Everything I read rang true, so I threw out the television and changed all sorts of things in our family culture. It made a difference in my children's ability to attend and think. Years later, the problem that was only beginning back then is now huge. I teach or attempt to teach a kindergarten church class of children, most of whom cannot sit still and have little attention span. I recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn how to reverse the decline of attention in children. Send it to everyone with children under 5.


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Endangered Minds Why Children Don't Think And What We Can Do About It Jane M Healy 9780684856209 Books Reviews

Jane writes in a clear style that parents will appreciate. Her information is enriching and most impotantly can help parents help their children avoid developmental pitfalls.
good book but you had the wrong cover published for the kindle version
Insightful !! A must read for every parent and educator.
This book was written roughly 20 years ago, but it is surprisingly still relevant to our culture today. The author uses studies and observations from medical experts and teaching professionals to draw conclusions about how our increasingly fast-paced and visually oriented culture is physiologically impacting developing brains. Though the author bases her assertions on facts and research, the book is not drudgery or cumbersome to get through and reads relatively easily.

I enjoyed the book and it did provide for me a boost in motivation to keep my family environment as conversation rich and interactive as possible. I was disappointed in the lack of practical solutions presented. The author spent much of the book telling what is wrong and laying out the dismal decline of children's minds in terms of expressive and reasoning capabilities. I would have enjoyed some tangible advice on how to guard against this trend she is proposing. I would recommend this book for parents of young children and educators.
This is the kind of thing I have been suspecting. Kid's brains are changed and altered significantly by electronic devices. Televisions, video games, computers, etc. People are not talking; parents are not talking with their children and language skills have been declining since the seventies.

My daughter tells me that her friends think that boys are easier to raise. Largely because you can stick them in front of a game and they won't bother you for hours. Geez. Why not get a dog instead? Or better yet a turtle? They require only physical care.

So... why not talk to your kids? Why not read and read to your kids? This is what enriches their brains.
Make no mistake about it Jane Healy is not a fan of Sesame Street! But I'm a fan of Jane Healy's. How could I - or any responsible parent - not be? Her books are written with such fervor, passion, and intellect, that you just become instantly immersed in her world, and life's work.

In Endangered Minds she tackles the topic of cognitive development in children, and every aspect and activity that relates to it, or impacts it especially television (hence her disdain for Sesame Street). What I appreciate most about this book is that she draws upon her vast knowledge of neuropsychology to grant readers both the scientific and psychological insights about the side effects of children watching too much televison, and how TV impedes the development of their reading and thinking abilities.

Instead of merely identifying television as the culprit for the decline in reading skills, she takes a practical, common sense approach to explaining why reading is important as it relates to the ability to reason, enrich linguistic skills, and develop inner speech (thinking in your head - which is crucial to problem solving). Her bottom line is that ANYTHING that reduces reading time, is not good for children; but television is especially bad for developing minds.

Unlike most books that are in appropriately titled, misleading, or don't deliver, Endangered Minds eloquently and accurately assesses the problems children face in becoming thinkers, and promptly provides solutions on how to increase their focus, and cognitive skils in the process.
I'm not sure what I expected to get from this book, but I was pretty disappointed. A lot of the research and anecdotes feel dated (which makes sense, because the book is older than I had realized). Maybe more interesting for people who enjoy reading historical psychology pieces, but I didn't find anything useful for myself as a mother of young children here.
At a writer's conference years ago, Madeleine L'Engle spoke about the declining attention span of US children as evidenced in the fan letters she received. In her lecture, she referenced this book. Of course I bought it. Everything I read rang true, so I threw out the television and changed all sorts of things in our family culture. It made a difference in my children's ability to attend and think. Years later, the problem that was only beginning back then is now huge. I teach or attempt to teach a kindergarten church class of children, most of whom cannot sit still and have little attention span. I recommend this book to anyone wishing to learn how to reverse the decline of attention in children. Send it to everyone with children under 5.