The Idle Parent: Why Less Means More When Raising Kids (28 page)
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Authors: Tom Hodgkinson
cultural issues
64
dance
see
music/dance
Dante Alighieri
108–9
Dawood, N. J.
209
De Quincey, Thomas
182–3
Dee, John
81
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
201–2
den-building
189–90
Dickens, Charles
120
,
202
,
205
A Christmas Carol
202
discipline
13
,
19–22
,
33–4
,
37
,
68–9
,
122
,
162
,
182
,
193
in public places
35
,
117–18
Rousseau on
13
,
18–19
in schools
72
,
73
,
193
domestic tasks, for children
2
,
3
,
4–5
,
8–9
,
146–7
see also
child labour
Doyle, Arthur Conan
202–3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
203
education/school
8
,
31
,
39
,
61–76
boarding schools
69–70
community schools
74
,
75
discipline in schools
72
,
73
,
193
educational television
87
flexi-schooling
67
home-schooling
66–7
,
76
,
104
,
134
,
188–9
learning by doing
161–2
,
165–6
music lessons
104–5
,
107
,
109–10
parental involvement
67
,
75
private
69–73
,
174–5
sex education
154
state
54–5
,
70
,
73–6
,
120
,
174
teachers
71–2
,
73–5
,
76
teaching of skills
65
,
75
Education Otherwise
66
Edwards, Jonathan
119
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Dancing in the Streets
51–2
,
105–6
electronic games
40
,
42
,
167–8
,
220
see also
computers/Internet
;
playing/play
encouragement
see
praise/encouragement
Epicurus
173
Eton
70–71
Facebook
168
face-pulling
185
fairy tales
203–4
,
209–11
see also
reading/books
family, the
43
,
134–6
,
217–18
,
221–2
as a community
8
,
9
,
52
,
53
,
55
,
57–9
,
98–100
,
218
concepts of
23–4
,
36
,
53
see also
parents
family days out
99–100
,
127–31
,
132
,
134–5
fathers
6
,
24
,
27
,
29
,
128–9
,
134–5
see also
parents
food
31
,
94–5
,
142–3
bread-making
146
home produce
147–8
,
153
,
155
,
158
junk food
131
meat
153
,
156
see also
mealtimes
food fads
141–2
Fukuoka, Masanobu
46
on music
110–11
The One-Straw Revolution
46–7
,
48
,
49
gardening
11
,
45
,
47
,
75
growing fruit/vegetables 147–8153,
155
,
158
Rousseau on
11
German Popular Stories
204
Grahame, Kenneth
The Wind in the Willows
203
Grant Museum, London
133
Grenfell, Joyce
120
Griffiths, Jay
144
Grimm’s Fairy Tales
203–4
Harris, Joel Chandler
Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings
204
Hartman, Alia
52
Hazlewood, Charles
191
helicopter parents
see
over-protective parents
Hepworth, Barbara
24
Heywood, Colin
84
Hobbes, Thomas
168
Hockney, David
Secret Knowledge
88
holidays
41–5
home decoration
136–7
home-schooling
66–7
,
76
,
104
,
134
,
188–9
Hundertwasser, Friedensreich
96
,
114–15
,
189
Hutton, Robert
106
Huxley, Aldous
40
,
46
,
71
,
76
,
106
,
179
Brave New World
159
Crome Yellow
214
,
218
The Doors of Perception
212
Island
53
Illich, Ivan
‘Taught Mother Tongue’
5–6
independence
see
self-sufficiency
International Magic
69
Internet
see
computers/Internet
Jacobs, Richard
71–2
James, Oliver
56
Janes, Sarah
120
Jerome, Jerome K.
198
John, Augustus
44
Kennett, White
The Charity of Schools for Poor Children
61
Kingsley, Charles
The Water Babies
205
Kipling, Rudyard
The Jungle Book
79
,
205
language
see
words/language
Lawrence, D. H.
8
‘Education of the People’
3–4
,
62
,
63
,
65
on motherhood
28–9
Lear, Edward
206
,
207
A Book of Bosh
207
‘The Jumblies’
206–7
Lewis, C. S.
207–8
Libertine, Eve
72
liberty
193
see also
discipline
Liddell, Alice
200
Liedloff, Jean
117
The Continuum Concept
92
,
101–2
,
161–2
,
113–14
,
167
,
176–8
,
216
,
226–7
Locke, John
on conversation
145
on dancing
104
on mealtimes/food
143–4
Some Thoughts Concerning Education
30–33
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34
,
35
,
37
,
41–2
,
50
,
51
,
56
,
68
,
74–5
,
103
,
122
,
193
on swimming
116–17
on toys/games
82–3
on work
164–6
loneliness/isolation
50–51
,
54
,
215
,
218
love
180–81
Mabey, Richard
Food for Free
46
manners
37
,
139
,
140–41
,
148
for adults
140
in conversation
144–5
A. S. Neill on
139
,
140
,
141
table manners
138
,
139
,
140–41
,
144–5
market economy
5
materialism
see
consumerism
McLuhan, Marshall
88
mealtimes
138–48
eating together
139
,
144–5
John Locke on
143–4
as a ritual
141
table manners
138
,
139
,
140–41
,
144–5
timing of
144
see also
food
medicine(s)
32–3
Mevlana Jalalu-dinn Rumi
105
Mill, James
173
Milne, A. A.
208
Ministry of Sound, The
107
Mitford, Nancy
27
money/economics
155–6
morality
21–2
,
61
,
65
,
120–21
,
122
,
204
,
205
Morpurgo, Michael
203
Morris, William
130
mothers
23
,
24–30
,
35–7
,
117
ideal concept of
24–5
,
27
,
29
,
36
,
37
D. H. Lawrence on
28–9
media image of
30
,
36
in medieval period
121
Rousseau on
27–8
as working women
6
,
25–6
,
27
,
34–5
,
36–7
see also
parents
music/dance
10
,
102–12
,
120
,
122–3
lessons in
104–5
,
107
,
109–10
John Locke on
104
religious
105–6
Rough Music
192
singing
10–11
,
103
,
108–9
,
111
,
112
,
191–2
the ukulele
109–10
,
200
Nabakov, Vladimir
133
Natural History Museum, London
130
natural world
39–49
,
114–15
,
168–9
see also
farming
;
gardening
Neill, A. S.
58
,
59
,
68
,
69–70
,
81
,
121
,
122
,
164
on manners
139
,
140
,
141
noise-making
190–91
nudity
120–21
Office of Christian Parents, The
20–21
organized activities
89
,
113–18
see also
playing/play
outside activities
32
,
39–49
,
53–4
,
66
,
124
,
125
,
168
blackberry-picking
45–6
camping
44–5
,
55
den-building
189–90
gardening
11
,
45
,
47
,
75
,
147–8
walks
183–4
see also
playing/play
over-protective parents
2–8
,
33
,
117
,
118
,
166–7
,
213–14
paedophiles/child abduction
118
parents
6–7
,
176–8
,
180–87
fathers
6
,
24
,
27
,
29
,
128–9
,
134–5
as good/bad
23–38
mothers
see
mothers
natural parenting
39–49
,
114–15
negative attitudes in
170–79
as over-protective
7–8
,
33
,
117
,
118
,
166–7
,
213–14
as over-worked
7
,
17–18
as perfect
29
self-sufficient
5
,
6
sex for
92
,
94
,
125
sleep deprivation
91–3
,
96
,
97–8
,
101
stressed
17–18
see also
family, the