Magical Child, a classic work, profoundly questioned the current thinking on childbirth practices, parenting, and educating our children.

Now its daring ideas about how Western society is damaging our childen, and how we can better nurture them and ourselves, ring truer than ever. From the very instant of birth, say Joseph Chilton Pearce, the human child has only one concer: 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 happy genius, capable of anything, equipped to fulfill his amazing potentional.