
The Shelter of Each Other
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Mary Pipher PhD
Confronted with today's challenges, parents feel helpless to protect their children from the enemy within their homes: the innapropriate television their kids watch for hours, the computer and virtual reality games that keep them from playing outside, when they should be learning from and about the real world. Compounding this is the fact that our psychological theories don't work anymore. These theories were developed decades ago, when families were tightly knit, relatively monolithic institutions, and they're dated. Pipher argues that such theories are of little help in our violent, sexualized contemporary culture. And while diagnosing the problem is the first step in curing it, Pipher offers ideas for simple actions we can all take to help rebuild our families and strengthen our communities.
©1996 Mary Pipher (P)1996 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...




















Critic reviews
"Simple solutions for survival in this family-unfriendly culture.... Eye-opening...heart-wrenching and uplifting." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"Compelling." (USA Today)
"A canny mix of optimism and practicality." (Newsweek)
I doubt if the cultural and historical comparisons of families in this book will ever be better told. Further relevance of this comparison to the crisis of meaning that both families and individuals suffering under today could not be more precise. Its not a nostalgic book about the good ol days but rather a search for meaning for today. The author is fair about the good ol days and mentions the bad "sound quality" moments.
Her clarity about the dangers of viewing family problems solely from a psychological or only from a culture perspective is brilliant and as clear as i have ever read about it. The skill with which the values and words of our grandparents and our fading parents are extracted to our benefit is a talent only a few surgeons can perform.
And though the book is not from the latest tablet and smart phone era, it ironically rings clearer! I think this could be because at least the previous television-video-games-cell-phone era was actually easier to identify than today's comprehensive talking portable computer surfaces.
Further, the joy and promise of these novel devices clouds us more than even more primitive devices did only a few years back. Yet living in this latest era that is beyond outrage characterized primarily by the inhumanity of rootless corporate globalization , political hijacking, global fundamentalist regression and ruthless and callous work conditions, families need to understand how families have survived as long as they have.
families, culture, psychology history at its best!
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Beautiful book
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The audio book suffers from relatively poor audio quaility.
Excellent book, not great audio quality
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