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 book, Kathleen McDonnell warns us that we can't go back to that time when grown-ups and kids knew their place.