Paul Bennett
Paul W. Bennett, Ed.D., is Director of Schoolhouse Institute, Halifax, NS, and Adjunct Professor of Education, Saint Mary’s University. His latest book is The State of the System: A Reality Check on Canada’s Schools (2020).
Bio last updated January 10th, 2022.
Articles by Paul Bennett
Chicken Little and Teens
By Paul Bennett
January 10, 2022
Author and educator Paul Bennett reviews recent books and articles by Dr. Erica Komisar that have stirred a viral hornet’s nest. Komisar, a New York psychoanalyst, highlights the importance of parent-child attachment and argues that believing in God is so important to parenting, that those who don’t should “lie about it.”
Five years after the appearance of her first book Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters and two years after one of those Wall Street Journal columns went viral, she’s still holding her ground after weathering the media storm While many parents regret not spending more time with their children in the early years, they do have a second chance to make it right during the period known as ‘long adolescence’ from age nine to 25 She hit a nerve with parents by taking a definitive stand on two critical issues: spending time more time with children during motherhood and imparting comforting religious beliefs during adolescence