Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture)
Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) Review
The other reviews here are very good. I don’t want to simply repeat them. I would like to add that this book is not just for people who work with youth. I am, and that is why I read it, but I’m also a father of 3 kids, and an uncle to 5 more. I am seriously rethinking what it means to be a parent and what it will take to give my kids a fighting chance. I’m also Gen X and a lot of what Clark talks about I experienced also, although my mid-adolescent experience was on a much less intensive level. Much of the abandonment I felt growing up makes more sense now. If you have kids, work with kids, are related to kids ages birth to 28 years old, or if you were a kid anytime between now and the 1970’s – This book is worth your time.
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Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers (Youth, Family, and Culture) Overview
Explores how the fragmentation of adult culture has led to the abandonment of adolescents.
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If parents, educators, and youth workers were to read only one book about helping adolescencethis would be the one. Chap Clark managed to get inside the world of US teenagers and reveal the depths of angst, pressure and loneliness they feel. Hurt is a illuminates the under layers of teen culture, the places where adolescents are most honest and vulnerable, only to discover that todays youth are indeed a tribe apartand it is the adults who have isolated them.
Most of Clarks research took place in Crescenta Valley High School in north Los Angeles County. One might wonder how a middle-aged dad could get inside the heads of so many teens from so many walks of life. He did this by doing what most adults are unwilling to dospending time with teens and asking questions, by showing a genuine curiosity in their world and a willingness to hear their answers without judgment. The results are riveting.
Ultimately this is an indictment of our increasingly adult-centric society that is more invested in adult interests than the individual needs of our youth. By the time adolescents enter high school, most have been subjected to at least a decade of adult-driven agendas. He slams coaches who are so invested in winning at youth sports that they leave mediocre athletes on the bench or pull them off the team. He points to the once playful dance classes that somehow morph into intensive dance training and regional competitions. Or the high school junior who faces a nightly four-to-five hour marathon of homework only to rise at 7 a.m. for morning band practice before AP calculus. We reward youth for their adult-pleasing achievements, failing to consider the price of isolation, stress and fear of failing that this generates.
Clark (the author of Daughters & Dads 1576830489 and From Father to Son 1576832945) concludes the book with solid recommendations for turning this tide. Unfortunately, he often defends his research and recommendations, as if a critical academic was looking over his shoulder. The truth is this book belongs less to the world of academics and more appropriately in the hands of anyone who lives with or directly works with teenagers. –Gail Hudson
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