We now recognize that abuse and neglect may be as frequent in nuclear families as love, protection, and commitment are in nonnuclear families.

A third edition of The Hurried Child came out 2001 and the 25th anniversary edition was publiDavid Elkindd in 2007 along with his newest book The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally. By doing so he argued teachers and parents alike could lapse into developmentally inappropriate instructional and learning practices that may distort the smooth development of learning. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series Kids These Days.

A longtime professor at Tufts University his groundbreaking books — The Hurried Child The Power of Play and Miseducation informed early childhood education professionals of the possible dangers of "pushing down" the elementary school curriculum into the very early years of a child's life. He is associated with the belief of decline of social markers. David Elkind (born March 11 1931) is an American child psychologist and author.