The Dangers of Peer Relationships | Rescue your children
Hello, Sarah Plumley here,
I'm just putting the finishing touches to Thursday night's Rescue your Children lecture series but simply had to share the extract below right away (I'm sure you'll agree that it is urgent!)
This ought to be compulsory reading for parents, grandparents and/or anyone who works with children!
Re: The Dangers of Peer Relationships
Absolutely missing in peer relationships are unconditional love and acceptance, the desire to nurture, the ability to extend oneself for the sake of the other, the willingness to sacrifice for the growth and development of the other. When we compare peer relationships with parent relationships for what is missing, parents come out looking like saints. The results spell disaster for many children.
Paralleling the increase of peer orientation in our society is a startling and dramatic increase in the suicide rate among children, fourfold in the last fifty years for the ten-to-fourteen age range in North America.
Suicide rates among that group [ten-to-fourteen] are the fastest growing with a 120 percent increase from 1980 to 1992 alone. In inner cities, where peers are the most likely to replace parents, these suicide rates have increased even more.
What is behind these suicides is highly revealing… I had always assumed that parental rejection would be the most precipitating factor. That is no longer the case. I worked for a time with young offenders. Part of my job was to investigate the psychological dynamics in children and adolescents who attempted suicide, successfully or not. To my absolute shock and surprise, the key trigger for the great majority was how they were being treated by their peers, not their parents.
~ Dr Gordon Neufeld
The extract above is from "Hold On to YOUR KIDS" and I shall be going over some of the key parts of it as they pertain to 'schooling' and 'education' on Thursday at 20:00, UK.
**ZOOM links will be out 45-minuts before via your inbox junk/spam folders!
Be. There. Live.
Sarah Plumley
Head Teacher, Guerrilla Ed
Expert Examiner GCSE Mathematics
BA, PGCE Secondary (Mathematics), QTS
https://www.sarahplumley.com/rescue-your-children/