This book has many, many ideas to consider.
Do we rob children of childhood, making them grow up too soon? Then, we abandon adulthood, maturity to remain children the rest of our lives?
Do we eradicate childhood, creating, not kids, but miniature adults? Consider preschool, "readiness" to read by kindergarten, homework for elementary students. Consider the styles of clothes in which we dress our kids, again more like miniature adults than children. Consider how their music mimics that of older folks (note I didn't say "mature" folks).
Do we explain away/rationalize by claiming children are "more sophisticated," "wiser beyond their years," etc.? I maintain not, but it's easier, isn't it.
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