Chalmer’s Award-winning writer Kathleen McDonnell follows her acclaimed Kid Culture: Children, Adults and Popular Culture with a challenge to anyone parenting today.

Parent alert: Honey, We Lost the Kids is a funny, eye-opening report from the front lines of the revolution in modern childhood.

Remember when children grew up in well-defined stages? Adults tried to keep whole areas of life hidden from them – death, bad language, and, of course, sex – and allowed them to step out into the adult world in an orderly, gradual fashion, according to a schedule determined by grown-ups.

So it’s no surprise many parents and experts believe that kids today are growing up too quickly, that a toxic combination of TV and films, video games and the Internet are robbing them of childhood. In this straight-talking, mind-bending new book, Kathleen McDonnell warns us that we can’t go back to that time when grown-ups and kids knew their place.

Chapter titles and subjects covered include: Madame de Sade’s House of Disclosure, The Walled Garden of Childhood, The Great Parenting Debate, sex, violence, computers and the Internet, and raising kids in the global village.

Honey, We Lost the Kids is nothing like anything written before for parents and educators. A must for anyone involved with kids in the 21st century.