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Hold on to Your Kids
Sep 23, 2024 3:21 AM

Author:Gabor Maté,Gordon Neufeld,Gabor Maté,Daniel Maté

Hold on to Your Kids

Brought to you by Penguin.

Children take their lead from their friends: being 'cool' matters more than anything else. Shaping values, identity and codes of behaviour, peer groups are often far more influential than parents.

But this situation is far from natural, and it can be dangerous - it undermines family cohesion, interferes with healthy development, and fosters a hostile and sexualized youth culture. Children end up becoming conformist, anxious and alienated.

In Hold on to Your Kids, acclaimed physician and bestselling author Gabor Maté joins forces with Gordon Neufeld, a psychologist with a reputation for penetrating to the heart of complex parenting. Together they pinpoint the causes of this breakdown and offer practical advice on how to 'reattach' to sons and daughters, establish the hierarchy at home, make children feel safe and understood, and earn back your children's loyalty and love. This updated edition also addresses the unprecedented parenting challenges posed by the rise of digital devices and social media.

By helping to reawaken our instincts, Maté and Neufeld empower parents to be what nature intended: a true source of contact, security and warmth for their children.

'Maté's book will make you examine your behaviour in a new light' Guardian

'bold, wise and deeply moral. [Maté] is a healer to be cherished' Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

© Gabor Maté 2004 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Reviews

Gabor Maté’s connections—between the intensely personal and the global, the spiritual and the medical, the psychological and the political—are bold, wise and deeply moral. He is a healer to be cherished

—— Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine

A visionary book that goes beyond the usual explanations to illuminate a crisis of unrecognized proportions. The authors show us how we are losing contact with our children and how this loss undermines their development and threatens the very fabric of society. Most importantly they offer, through concrete examples and clear suggestions, practical help for parents to fulfil their instinctual roles. A brilliant and well written book – one to be taken very seriously

—— Peter A. Levine Ph.D., International teacher and author of the bestselling books: Waking the Tiger, Healing Trauma and It Won't Hurt Forever, Guiding Your Child through Trauma

Hold on to Your Kids brings us genuinely new ideas and fresh perspectives on parenting. The authors integrate psychology, anthropology, neurology and their own personal and professional experiences…. a worthy book with practical implications

—— Dr Mary Pipher, author of Reviving Ophelia and The Shelter of Each Other

Maté’s book will make you examine your behaviour in a new light

—— Guardian

Hold On to Your Kids is full of easy tips for avoiding calamity

—— Times

Daisy has created a book for the whole family, making rainy days enjoyable! It is empowering as a Mum to know with every game you are helping your children build knowledge and skills

—— Emma Jaulin , MumTalk Podcast

A fascinating new book that examines the multitudinous benefits of this form of locomotion

—— Harper's Bazaar

Like a poem to walking… [and] the science that might help convince planners to prioritise walking as a means of getting around

—— Lucy Whetman , UK Press Syndication

Forget apples. A walk a day really will keep the doctor away

—— Evening Standard

[In Praise of Walking] it provides an antidote to the many miseries that can accumulate because of our modern, sedentary lifestyle

—— Simple Things

Whether you’re an avid hiker or simply like to get out and do the school run on foot, this book will make you appreciate the physical, mental and societal benefits of getting outdoors on two feet.

—— Liz Connor , UK Press Syndication

An informative yet witty book on the importance of walking for our health and wellbeing, and for societies in general

—— Liz Nice , Eastern Daily Press

Compelling… A new angle on our favourite pastime

—— Walk Magazine

A fascinating read… This informative book…will rouse you from the sofa and make you want to get moving

—— Eastern Daily Press, *Book of the Week*

Beautiful ... A gentle but deeply affecting read, and the perfect reminder of how sadness and hope can sometimes live side by side

—— Woman's Way

Sure and subtle, MacMahon holds the reader in her spell. She is a born storyteller

—— Mike McCormack

Kathleen MacMahon has written an absorbing, grave, and emotionally resonant study of a marriage, of a life, of masculinity and of grief. A marvellous achievement

—— Neil Hegarty

Kathleen MacMahon sensitively explores the complexities of the human heart and reveals how even in the depths of grief, unexpected light can emerge from the darkness

—— David Park

Full of humour and brims with the warmth of family, friendship and the possibility of second chances

—— Irish Sunday People

An elegantly written and moving account of one man coming to terms with the sudden death of his wife

—— Irish Times Magazine

Excellent (and darkly funny) ... A sensitive, nuanced, and ultimately hopeful exploration of grief

—— Eimear Ryan , Irish Examiner

Touching and enthralling

—— Sunday Times

Stunning

—— Henrietta McKervey , via Twitter

A tender portrait of a marriage and how we are formed by our closest relationships

—— Good Housekeeping

Heart-wrenching ... Almost a parable, it's a cautionary tale for those failing to appreciate just how short life can be

—— RTÉ Culture

It's rare to read an account of a happy normal marriage and she does it brilliantly

—— Sue Leonard

Kathleen MacMahon writes with a confidence and ease and with an unerring sense of timing

—— Maeve Binchy , Irish Times

Nothing But Blue Sky is quiet and thoughtful and very moving - Claire Fuller

—— Claire Fuller

Addresses what motherhood really feels like... She writes about raising five children with honesty and poignancy, revealing universal truths along the way.

—— Red Magazine

Stroud's warm and honest memoir is the take on parenting we all need. An unflinching look at how to hold on to your own personality when motherhood threatens to submerge it.

—— i Newspaper

Stroud’s clear-eyed look at how wildness and domesticity have entwined in her life is both heartening and inspiring.

—— Olivia Laing

Clover Stroud writes with such startling vivacity and honesty about motherhood, this book has its own heartbeat. It crackles with life - its messiness, darkness, and joy. I loved it.

—— Eve Chase, author Black Rabbit Hall and The Vanishing of Audrey Wilde

Clover’s expertise is writing about family life in a way that feels both new and entirely familiar. How Clover talks about motherhood is very different to the ways you see it talked about – I think we’ve got two polarised narratives in media at the moment and she fuses them together to find this new place. She’s really put into words how I feel as a mother – that it is this intense, almost sickening, love, but it is also an absolute fear that you don’t ever know how you’d live without them. I really recommend My Wild and Sleepless Nights.

——
Pandora Sykes

Her descriptions leap off the page... It's the honesty that makes this book so compelling.

—— The Spectator

Clover Stroud managed to write down all of the mania in one place, making me shed a tear and honk with laughter…she writes so eloquently about all we lose as well as gain through our children.

—— Emma Barnett , Good Housekeeping

'Clover Stroud is a wonderful writer of the most colourful prose

—— ME+EM Bookclub

My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud is a robust, raw and rare celebration of motherhood that had me laughing out loud one moment and crying the next.

—— Rachel Joyce , Observer

A captivating guide to the joys and terrors of motherhood.

—— Sunday Times best paperbacks of 2021

An electrically candid memoir...raw, elemental and beautiful.

—— Daily Telegraph
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