{"product_id":"life-under-compulsion-ten-ways-to-destroy-the-humanity-of-your-child-9781610170949","title":"Life Under Compulsion: Ten Ways to Destroy the Humanity of Your Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eWelcome to Life Under Compulsion\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e How do you raise a child who can sit with a good book and read? Who is moved by beauty? Who doesn't have to buy the latest this or that vanity? Who is not bound to the instant urge, wherever it may be found? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a parent, you've probably asked these questions. And now Anthony Esolen provides the answers in this wise new book, the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed \u003ci\u003eTen Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Although \u003ci\u003efreedom \u003c\/i\u003ehas become a byword of our age, Esolen reveals that our children are anything but free. In fact, they are becoming slaves to compulsions. Some compulsions come \u003ci\u003efrom without\u003c\/i\u003e: government mandates that determine what children are taught, how they are taught, and even what they can eat in school. Others come \u003ci\u003efrom within\u003c\/i\u003e: the itches that must be scratched, the passions by which children (like the rest of us) can be mastered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Common Core, smartphones, video games, sex ed, travel teams, Twitter, politicians, popular music, advertising, a world with more genders than there are flavors of ice cream--these and many other aspects of contemporary life come under Esolen's sweeping gaze in \u003ci\u003eLife Under Compulsion\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This elegantly written book restores lost wisdom about education, parenting, literature, music, art, philosophy, and leisure. Esolen shows why the common understanding of freedom--as a permission slip to do as you please--is narrow, misleading . . . and dangerous. He draws on great thinkers of the Western tradition, from Aristotle and Cicero to Dante and Shakespeare to John Adams and C. S. Lewis, to remind us what human freedom \u003ci\u003etruly \u003c\/i\u003emeans. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eLife Under Compulsion\u003c\/i\u003e also restates the importance of concepts so often dismissed today: truth, beauty, goodness, love, faith, and virtue. But above all else, it reminds us of a fundamental truth: that a child is a \u003ci\u003ehuman being\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Countercultural in the best sense of the term, \u003ci\u003eLife Under Compulsion \u003c\/i\u003eis an indispensable guide for any parent who wants to help a child remove the shackles and enjoy a truly free, and full, life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Intercollegiate Studies Institute\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/18\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781610170949\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.90d","brand":"Anthony Esolen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43799837245621,"sku":"9781610170949","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e2efab40-aba3-446f-bd30-81ba45b2d961.jpg?v=1711479211","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/life-under-compulsion-ten-ways-to-destroy-the-humanity-of-your-child-9781610170949","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}