Artificial Maturity
Helping Kids Meet the Challenge of Becoming Authentic Adults

Awesome book! If you are a parent of school-age kids or a teacher you really, really should read this book.......more

Are you the parent of kiddos born after Sept. 11, 2001? If so, your children are facing challenges unique to this newest American generation. They were dubbed iY and Homelanders when this book was published, although I believe they’re officially called Gen. Z now. They’ve had information at their fi......more

This book is dated, and I’m not sure if there is a new edition. Some of it comes across pretty pessimistic, though the author tries hard to balance this. He tries to be practical, but his premise is very theoretical, and so difficult to address every situation. Basically the reader has to figure out......more

A few notes and summaries of the book: Tim Elmore's book argues that most adults provides too much structure and information too early for kids and gives them real life experiences too late. He argues that premature information without practical application can be dangerous and leads to "artificial......more

This book does a great job of giving the parent's of this generation some tangible ways to help coach and steer our children in a time that is so different from when we were raised. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and felt like it gave a lot of useful information. It was also a book that helped me to......more