A review by macksbookstack
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers by Gabor Maté, Gordon Neufeld

3.0

This was a tricky book to rate. I founds some of the author’s assertions and premises about peer orientation to be problematic, lacking evidence, and romanticizing the “good old days” at times, which was really surprising as I generally align with both authors in other ways. So the whole first half of the book was rather frustrating. However, once Neufeld got past the scare tactics and talked about attachment and how to reconnect to our children, then I was all on board. There’s definitely some good stuff in there, but I’d probably recommend just skipping to chapter 14 for anyone who is interested.