The digital child : the evolution of inwardness in the histories of childhood Prologue: where have all the children gone Introduction: writing childhood and the seven stages of the child Childhood and its perennial discontents: digital child introduced How parenting and group fantasies may impinge on inwardness The prehistory of parenting and the dawn of inwardness: tribal child A new inwardness in the classical world : pedagogical child Suffer the children : ownership of the faith child Saving the faith child : ecclesiastical interventions Childhood inside arts looking glass The humanist child peers out from renaissance madonnas The rational child and the democratizing of inwardness Themes and variations : childrearing in central and eastern europe Conflicted inwardness from blood milk equations Inwardness coexisting in the citizen child and the digital child Appendix: saving boys in from the church: a personal odyssey Bibliography