Parenting
Many parents feel inadequate in dealing with their children. Dr. Rudolf Dreikurs in his book “The Challenge of Child Training, A Parent’s Guide,” he said and I quote “A factor which often contributes to the parent’s lack of confidence is their ignorance of proper method of education. Even in normally balanced and self-assured individuals this ignorance may easily produce a feeling of frustration but coupled with a deep sense of inferiority, it completely wraps the parent-child relationship. Where can fathers and mothers find time and opportunity to undergo preparation? If parents knew nothing about education, they would be more likely to follow their common sense and seek advice at the proper time. They would often be more willing to listen to reason. As matters stand, everyone thinks he knows a little about education and often this little is wrong. All had experienced “being raised” with the attendant problems of contingencies. Most people follow the example of their own parents. As a result, the same errors in the child rearing are handed down from generation to generation. Any effort to convince a father who was brought up by the rod that children should be reared without violence generally provokes and protests “I was brought up like that, and I turned out well enough. Why shouldn’t I bring up my children the same way?”
