1. Carla Barnhill, The Myth of the Perfect Mother: Rethinking the Spirituality of Women (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2004).
1. Po Bronson, “How Not to Helicopter,” Newsweek, November 20, 2009; http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/nurture-shock/2009/11/20/how-not-to-helicopter.html
2. E. E. Cummings, “i thank you God for most this amazing,” E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962 (Revised Corrected, and Expanded Edition), ed. George James Firmage (New York: Liveright, 1994).
1. See “The Story of Stuff Project” at http://www.storyofstuff.org/. See also Luke 12:33, “Sell your possessions and give to those in need. This will store up treasure for you in heaven!” (NLT).
2. Unconfirmed, but assumed to be fact.
3. “Bands complain about their songs being used in torture,” The Telegraph, December 11, 2008; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3705755/
Bands-complain-about-their-songs-being-used-in-torture.html
1. Jennifer Grant, “The Charlie Sheen Has Worn Off,” Her.meneutics, March 11, 2011; http://blog.christianitytoday.com/women/2011/03/the_charlie_sheen_
has_worn_off.html
2. From a personal e-mail to author, September 2011. See also Hilbrich Davis’ website, Familylifesuccess.com
1. Cathleen Falsani, Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2008).
2. Ibid., 10.
3. “Modern life leads to more depression among children,” The Telegraph, September 12, 2006; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1528639/Modern-life-leads-to-more-depression-among-children.html
4. Ben Fenton, “Junk culture ‘is poisoning our children’,” The Telegraph, September 12, 2006; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1528642/Junk-culture-is-poisoning-our-children.html
5. Ibid.
6. Peter Gray, “The Dramatic Rise of Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents: Is It Connected to the Decline in Play and Rise in Schooling?” January 26, 2010; http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/freedom-learn/201001/the-dramatic-rise-anxiety-and-depression-in-children-and-adolescents-is-it
7. Esther Entin, “All Work and No Play: Why Your Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed,” Atlantic, October 12, 2011; http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/10/all-work-and-no-play-why-your-kids-are-more-anxious-depressed/246422/
8. See Flylady.net
9. Carla Barnhill, “Simplified Summer,” June 6, 2011, The Mommy Revolution blog; http://themommyrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/simplified-summer/
10. Ibid.
11. Anish Kapoor, interview with John Tusa, BBC Radio; http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/johntusainterview/kapoor_transcript.shtml
1. Juliet B. Schor, “The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines,” The Hedgehog Review, Summer 2003; http://www.iasc-culture.org/HHR_Archives/Commodification/5.2CSchor.pdf
2. Ibid.
3. http://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/guide/food-dye-adhd
4. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, “Children, violence, and the media: a report for parents and policy makers,” September 14, 1999. Previously available at http://judiciary.senate.gov/oldsite/mediavio.htm
5. Internet Resources to Accompany The Sourcebook for Teaching Science, “Television and Health”; http://www.csun.edu/science/health/docs/tv&.html#tv_stats
6. Ibid.
7. Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen, “The Dangers of TV,” Simple to Remember; http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/dangers-of-television/
8. Steven Dowshen, MD, “How TV Affects Your Child,” Kids Health, October 2011; http://kidshealth.org/parent/positive/family/tv_affects_child.html#
9. Annie Leonard, The Story of Stuff, referenced and annotated script; http://dev.storyofstuff.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/annie_leonard_footnoted_script.pdf
10. Ibid.
11. http://currey-wilson.com/faq.php
12. “Reading Aloud to Kids: The 12 Benefits of Reading Books Out Loud to Children of All Ages,” SixWise.com; http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/07/02/07/reading-aloud-to-kids-the-12-benefits-of-reading-books-out-loud-to-children-of-all-ages.htm
13. Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (New York: Bantam, 1983).
14. Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa (New York: Random House, 1938).
15. John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (New York: Random House, 1984).
1. Po Bronson, “In Defense of Children Behaving Badly,” Newsweek, October 22, 2009; http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/nurture-shock/2009/10/22/in-defense-of-children-behaving-badly.html
2. Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, and Elaine Bruner, Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons (Clearwater, FL: Touchstone, 1986).
3. Po Bronson, “In Defense of Children Behaving Badly,” Newsweek, October 22, 2009; http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/blogs/nurture-shock/2009/10/22/in-defense-of-children-behaving-badly.html
4. Learn more about Mawi at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selamawi_Asgedom
5. See www.ctcl.org
6. Loren Pope, Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges (New York: Penguin, 2006).
7. Sharon Biggs, “A child’s brain fully develops by age 25,” Examiner.com, September 21, 2009; http://www.examiner.com/parenting-education-in-newark/a-child-s-brain-fully-develops-by-age-25
8. Here’s a good chart that gives milestones from birth through five years old. There are many more such charts online. http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/milestones/
9. “The brain doesn’t hit adult levels until the age of twenty-five.” (Jay Giedd, “The Adolescent Brain—Why Teenagers Think and Act Differently,” National Institute of Mental Health; http://www.edinformatics.com/news/teenage_brains.htm)
1. The National Center on Alcohol and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, 2010.
2. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 2004.
3. D. Neumark-Sztainer, et al. (University of Minnesota) Arch Pediatric Adolesc Med. January 2008; 162(1): 17-22.
4. American Dietetic Association Family Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey 2010.
5. Grace Freedman, Eatdinner.org, “About”; http://www.eatdinner.org/p/about.html
6. Rachel Stone, from a personal e-mail to the author, October 28, 2011.
7. Rachel Stone, “A ‘Proof’ of True Christian Faith,” Eat with Joy, October 15, 2011; http://eatwithjoy.org/2011/10/15/a-“proof”-of-true-christian-faith
1. Homeland Security, “National Terrorism Advisory System”; http://www.dhs.gov/files/programs/ntas.shtm
2. Dr. Phil McGraw, Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004), 182.
1. Melinda Beck, “Blanks for the Memories,” Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2011; http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304520804576
341482658082052.html
2. Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories (London: Penguin, 1991), 63.
1. Bruce Cockburn, “Don’t Feel Your Touch,” June 1997; on the album Big Circumstance, 1988.