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7/5/09 Interview 1

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Child and adolescent psychiatrist Jud Staller, MD discusses today's tendency to over-schedule children -- and urges parents to take a balanced, family-friendly approach.

Health Information Center Resources for Slow Parenting and Hyper-Parenting:

• Hyper-Parenting, an interview with author Carl Honore and Laura Knoy, from New Hampshire Public Radio, June 2, 2009.
• How To Avoid Hyper-Parenting, an interview with Linda Fears, Editor-In-Chief of Family Circle magazine, from The Early Show CBS, on CNetTV.
• Slow Parenting In a Sliding Economy, by Lora Shinn, from ParentMap.
• How to Avoid the Hyper-Parenting Trap, excerpts from co-authors Alvin Rosenfeld, MD and Nicole Wise.

Books:

• Under Pressure: Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting, by Carl Honore, published by HarperOne, 2009.
• The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap, by Alvin Rosenfeld, MD, published by St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
• Free-Range Kids: Giving Our Children the Freedom We Had Without Going Nuts With Worry, by Lenore Skenazy Jossey-Bass, 2009.
• In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed (Plus), by Carl Honore, published by HarperOne, 2005.

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