Marybeth Hicks
Auteur van Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World
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Marybeth Hicks is a columnist and speaker and the author of three previous books on parenting and culture. Founder and editor of the blog MarybethHicks.com, she also writes a monthly family column for Catholic Digest magazine and is a regular contributor to EWTN radio. Formerly a columnist for the toon meer Washington Times, Marybeth is a frequent guest on national television and radio outlets to comment on issues that impact families and communities. She and her husband, Jim, are the parents of four children and make their home in Michigan. toon minder
Werken van Marybeth Hicks
Bringing Up Geeks: How to Protect Your Kid's Childhood in a Grow-Up-Too-Fast World (2008) 95 exemplaren
Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid: Confronting the Left's Assault on Our Families, Faith, and Freedom (2011) 18 exemplaren
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- Michigan State University
- Korte biografie
- Marybeth Hicks began her career in the White House where she scribed special correspondence and talking points for President Ronald Reagan. Today, her writing has shifted to focus on the most important job in the world—being a parent.
(from http://marybethhicks.com/aboutMarybet...)
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3.5 STARS
The book was a decent read...mostly because it was a big pat on the back. Many ideas that we are already using and a couple good ways to extend our current parenting ideals through to high school.
The book is written very conversationally and was a fairly quick read. Divided into sections that make it easy enough to pick up and read what you were intersted it. Many references in the back to further reading.
Drawbacks - Author used the (more on this later) phrase way too much! Much anecdotal "research" based on her parenting of her 4 children...repeatedly mentioned that she was no expert in many areas...made me want to take a step back and see what her credentials were exactly. Not that I needed her to be an expert - being a mom is sometimes expert enough for me...but made the case a weaker one when it was constantly reiterated.
Like I stated above - Sometimes it is just good to read something that confirms your own actions. Lets you know you are not alone in your thinking.… (meer)
The book was a decent read...mostly because it was a big pat on the back. Many ideas that we are already using and a couple good ways to extend our current parenting ideals through to high school.
The book is written very conversationally and was a fairly quick read. Divided into sections that make it easy enough to pick up and read what you were intersted it. Many references in the back to further reading.
Drawbacks - Author used the (more on this later) phrase way too much! Much anecdotal "research" based on her parenting of her 4 children...repeatedly mentioned that she was no expert in many areas...made me want to take a step back and see what her credentials were exactly. Not that I needed her to be an expert - being a mom is sometimes expert enough for me...but made the case a weaker one when it was constantly reiterated.
Like I stated above - Sometimes it is just good to read something that confirms your own actions. Lets you know you are not alone in your thinking.… (meer)
Summary: My favorite cartoon has a bunch of white sheep following each other right off of a cliff. In the crowd is one black sheep going the opposite direction happily saying "excuse me, pardon me". This is what I am asking my boys to do every single day. Kids and youth today are heading off that cliff in mass and I am asking them to chose differently. This book is all about being that sheep and how to go about it. I appreciated the sound wisdom, but more than that felt a kinship with a mom who feels as I do.… (meer)
Not at *all* what I expected - nor anything I would have purchased, had I realized. Having said that, the advice in this book is not necessarily bad advice, it's just that it wasn't until I actually started reading the book that I realized that the title in no way means that this is a book for geek parents, with geek children - the word "geek" as Marybeth Hicks uses it is simply an acronym, and nothing more.
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Raising kids isn't easy and your time is no longer your own. You shouldn't be buddies with your kids until they're adults and out of your house.
This isn't really what I thought it would be, but for someone questioning their parenting, I suppose this would be a good book.