Hurried

It's nothing new, it's twenty four years since David Elkind wrote a book called The Hurried Child (1981), a book which was perhaps one of the first to identify the phenomenon of rushing children through childhood so that they could be assimilated as quickly as possible into the commercial and sexual habits of supposed adulthood.

Formation: Who's bringing up our children? 2005

It's nothing new, it's twenty four years since David Elkind wrote a book called The Hurried Child (1981), a book which was perhaps one of the first to identify the phenomenon of rushing children through childhood so that they could be assimilated as quickly as possible into the commercial and sexual habits of supposed adulthood.

Formation: Who's bringing up our children? 2005

In 1981, Elkind wrote a book called The Hurried Child, lamenting the fallout from parents thrusting their children into adulthood prematurely.

Boston.com Top Stories 2009

On the cover the word "Hurried" slants forward, rushing, like the figures of the rushing nuns below the word.

Women of God 2002

On the cover the word "Hurried" slants forward, rushing, like the figures of the rushing nuns below the word.

Women of God 2002

On the cover the word "Hurried" slants forward, rushing, like the figures of the rushing nuns below the word.

Women of God 2002

"The 'Hurried' Child: Myth vs. Reality," a chapter in a forthcoming book, analyzes data collected in a previous nationally representative survey of children and their families and a qualitative study conducted in two medium-sized communities in the American Midwest.

YubaNet.com 2008

Not many national media outlets have paid these baby-can-read programs much heed, with the exception of the TODAY show, which ran an expose on the claims of Your Baby Can Read, and a segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation in 2009 that touched off an angry exchange between David Elkind, a Tufts University professor and author of The Hurried Child, and Janet Doman.

Lisa Guernsey: Learning to Read: How Young is Too Young? Lisa Guernsey 2011

Not many national media outlets have paid these baby-can-read programs much heed, with the exception of the TODAY show, which ran an expose on the claims of Your Baby Can Read, and a segment on NPR's Talk of the Nation in 2009 that touched off an angry exchange between David Elkind, a Tufts University professor and author of The Hurried Child, and Janet Doman.

Lisa Guernsey: Learning to Read: How Young is Too Young? Lisa Guernsey 2011

Hurried efforts to protect the government's thin majority have kept European financial markets on edge, with bond prices of high-debt governments such as Portugal and Ireland falling further amid fears those countries could follow Greece into a default if the government in Athens falls.

Finance Minister Seeks Votes for Greek Austerity Plan Alkman Granitsas 2011