Carl Honoré

After studying history and Italian at Edinburgh University, Carl Honoré worked with street children in Brazil. This later inspired him to take up journalism and since 1991 he has written from all over Europe and South America, spending three years in Buenos Aires along the way. His work has appeared in publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Economist, Observer, American Way, National Post, Globe and Mail, Houston Chronicle, and Miami Herald. His first book, In Praise of Slowness, was an international bestseller.

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American/Pop Culture

Relationships/Life Coaching

Under Pressure

Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting

Talking Points

Honoré is an authority on the cultural and social investigations of a new movement emerging to challenge the pervasive traps of hyper-parenting. He is an expert on the slow movement and is an acclaimed and recognized journalist himself.

Description

Carl Honoré returns from his crusade for slowness to show how our culture of speed, efficiency and success at all costs is hurting both parents and children. But in this age of anxiety, we cannot just turn back the clock to a simpler time. When the obsession to give children the best of everything runs rampant, parents, schools, communities, and corporations unwittingly combine forces to create a culture of over-scheduled, over-stimulated, and over-indulged kids.

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