Detoxing Childhood: What Parents Need to Know to Raise Happy, Successful Children

"I purchased this book last year after attending a seminar hosted by Sue Palmer in Belfast. Fantastic! Toxic Childhood awakened me to the changes all responsible people should embrace - to make our messy society more child friendly. Innocence needs preserving.
This title, her second book on this theme, gives everyone involved with the nurturing of young minds and bodies some fool proof steps to get rid of the modern day rubbish stealing the joy (and healthiness)from our children. A must for parents and teachers."
~ Written on 2008-09-10

"In this book Sue Palmer opens up a long denied but disturbing window on childhood in today's Britain. Her major point is that 21st century technology, very beneficial to adults, has created an immensely hostile environment for children.

Her three areas of concern are:

q increasingly aggressive marketing to children
q the effects of the visual media on children's brains
q the abuse of electronic communications

As a retired headteacher she uses her experience and extensive research (see her best seller `Toxic Childhood') together in a reality picture but, most importantly, suggests how change can be put into place.

This very accessible book gives its support for warm, authoritative parenting as well as revealing the `junk food jungle' that leads to toxic eating habits.

As Sue Palmer says at the beginning of the book, "parental love is the greatest force on the planet. When parents know what's good for their children and what does them harm, they will act.""
~ Written on 2008-01-04