Late 20th century, early 21st, "child psychologists" who know nothing of the day-to-day process of keeping kids behaving, but write books telling parents how to raise their kids.
It's big business.
We're all aware that there's no parenting manual out there.... but that doesn't stop these so-called "child psychologists" from writing books and providing "a" manual to parents.
The trouble is that they neglect something very basic, very simple, very obvious: each kid is an individual with individual needs and individual disciplinary requirements.
A "one size fits all" recipe will never work.
A book's guidelines will never fit with any particular kid.
The best advice to any parent is... the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy first sentence: Don't panic.
Learn on the job, trial and error.
There are things that work with the kids from one family that will never work with your own... and vice-versa!
Sure, you'll tend to rehash your memories of what your parents did to you... you didn't turn out that bad, so maybe it works... try!
While keeping the bad memories out of your arsenal... until such time as... well... panic comes!
You just need to get to the end of the day and say "I did my best, given what I knew at the time".
Still... some people should never be allowed to become parents.
It's big business.
We're all aware that there's no parenting manual out there.... but that doesn't stop these so-called "child psychologists" from writing books and providing "a" manual to parents.
The trouble is that they neglect something very basic, very simple, very obvious: each kid is an individual with individual needs and individual disciplinary requirements.
A "one size fits all" recipe will never work.
A book's guidelines will never fit with any particular kid.
The best advice to any parent is... the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy first sentence: Don't panic.
Learn on the job, trial and error.
There are things that work with the kids from one family that will never work with your own... and vice-versa!
Sure, you'll tend to rehash your memories of what your parents did to you... you didn't turn out that bad, so maybe it works... try!
While keeping the bad memories out of your arsenal... until such time as... well... panic comes!
You just need to get to the end of the day and say "I did my best, given what I knew at the time".
Still... some people should never be allowed to become parents.
