The Whole Child

Restoring Wonder to the Art of Parenting

By (author) Seamus Carey

Hardback - £106.00

Publication date:

18 June 2003

Length of book:

184 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780742514867

The Whole Child is a beautifully written book combining classic philosophical themes like wonder and happiness with modern parenting virtues like courage, compassion, integrity, and discipline. Seamus Carey uses anecdotes from his own experience as a parent, some amusing and some poignant, to illustrate philosophical concepts. The result is a rare work, as valuable to the serious student of philosophy as it is to Carey's fellow parents.

Carey argues that parents need to rediscover the sense of wonder—the ontological depth—with which children experience life, and offers suggestions for how this recovery might take place. In so doing, Carey uncovers standards and ideas for raising children that reach beyond those typically considered by the modern family.
With intelligence, imagination, and insight, Seamus Carey uses the philosophical tradition to illuminate key personal and moral dimensions of parenting. The Whole Child is a book that will help us think more deeply and love more wisely.