Many parents identify with a progressive worldview, but don’t necessarily recognize how much of modern child-rearing and education is rooted in a deeply conservative, pro-capitalist, and cynical world view. Or how practicing parenting in these manners is actually inadvertently recreating a world at odds with our highest ambitions to be members of a caring, collaborative community. In this book you will be asked to re-evaluate and re-think a lot of things you may have taken for granted! This book is both challenging and enriching to anyone who is longing to bring their political intentions in line with their parenting.

Many of us feel a certain disorientation when it feels like modern culture—including all those things we disagree with, all those toxic ideas we want to protect them from—is having a bigger influence on our children than we are. What’s happening that makes parents seem to have less influence on their children than in times past? This book explains the concept of peer orientation and how this is detrimental to our children, because it leaves their deepest needs unmet, while at the same time eroding our parental attachments with them. Gordon and Gabor offer lots of suggestions to parents at all stages of the parenting journey for how to keep that necessary connection alive, so children are not at the whims of peers and culture.