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SelfEsteem in Time and Place: How American Families Imagine, Enact, and Personalize a Cultural Ideal (Child Development in Cult,Used
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The concept of selfesteem is a fixture in the psychological and moral landscape of American society. This is especially true in the arena of childrearing: images and references to selfesteem are ubiquitous in academic, educational, and popular media. Yet, until now, little has been known about what selfesteem means to parents or how selfesteem infiltrates everyday practices.SelfEsteem in Time and Place reveals how selfesteem became a touchstone of American childrearing in the early years of the 21st century. At the heart of this book is the Millennial study, an empirical investigation of diverse families in one Midwestern town. European American, African American, middleclass, and workingclass parents of young children embraced selfesteem as a childrearing goal and believed that fostering children's selfesteem was critical to their psychological health and future success. To achieve this goal, they enacted a high maintenance style of childrearing comprised of assiduous monitoring, copious praise, and gentle discipline. These practices differed dramatically from most cultural cases in the ethnographic record. Together, parents and children created an early moment in a childaffirming developmental trajectory. Threeyearolds developed a precocious ability to praise themselves and solicit praise from others. As active participants and inventive agents, children and parents alike engaged in a process of personalization, nuancing their views in light of their social positioning and infusing normative ideas and practices with personal significance. The result is an account of unparalleled depth and nuance that situates childrearing and selfesteem in time and place, traces its roots to 19th century visionaries, and identifies the complex, multilayered contexts from which this enduring cultural ideal derives its meanings.
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