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Joseph Chilton Pearce

Magical Child by Joseph Chilton Pearce takes about 4 hours 43 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 43 minutes

A weekend read

First published 1977. 257 pages, about 70,675 words.

10 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 51 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 43 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 57 minutes

The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questioned the current thinking on childbirth pratices, parenting, and educating our children. Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our children, and how we can better nurture them and oruselves, ring truer than ever. From the very instant of birth, says Joseph Chilton Pearce, the human child has only one concern: to learn all that there is to learn about the world. This planet is the child's playground, and nothing should interfere with a child's play. Raised this way, the Magical Child is a a happy genius, capable of anything, equipped to fulfill his amazing potential. Expanding on the ideas of internationally acclaimed child psychologist Jean Piaget, Pearce traces the growth of the mind-brain from brith to adulthood. He connects the alarming rise in autism, hyperkinetic behavior, childhood schizophrenia, and adolescent suicide to the all too common errors we make in raising and educating our children. Then he shows how we can restore the astonishing wealth of creative intelligence that is the brithright of every human being. Pearce challenged all our notions about child rearing, and in the process challenges us to re-examine ourselves. Pearce's message is simple: it is never too late to play, for we are all Magical Children

Subjects: Child psychology, Child rearing, Psychologie, Enfants

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