title: The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon (Revised edition)
author:  David Elkind 
description: David Elkind is Professor of Child Development in the Eliot Pearson Department of Child Development at Tufts University. Through his writings, media appearances and lectures in the United States, Canada and abroad he is now recognized as one of the leading advocates for the preservation of childhood. Professor Elkind is the author of over a dozen other books including All Grown Up and No Place to Go, and Miseducation, Preschoolers at Risk.
zlib_text: Copyright © 2003 by Robert Dallek
  
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  First eBook Edition: May 2003
  
  ISBN: 978-0-7595-2828-4
  
  
  
  
  
  > Contents
  
  [Preface](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_005.html#filepos8332)
  
  [PART ONE: Growing
  Up](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_006.html#filepos12945)
  
  > [CHAPTER 1:
  > Beginnings](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_007.html#filepos13678)
  
  > [CHAPTER 2: Privileged
  > Youth](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_008.html#filepos78475)
  
  > [CHAPTER 3: The Terrors of
  > Life](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_009.html#filepos200379)
  
  [PART TWO: Public
  Service](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7_split_010.html#filepos314866)
  
  > [CHAPTER 4: Choosing
  > Politics](CR%21GWDNV0800109V40SNM1D32SK4AY7