Our Parenting Crisis
A Growing and Dangerous Problem
Imbalance can make parenting seem like Mr Toad~ Wild Ride.
Our society is in chaos， due largely to the weakness of our current child-r~ar-
ing methods. These methods werefft working for me when t was raising my
children， and they arefft working for parents today
Unfortunately， the parenting methods used in our homes， whether effec-
tive or not， become the standard for the way we handle children at school;
and what we do in our schools permeates our entire society--our businesses，
professions， legal systems， and government.
This happens because the concepts we teach our kids， even when they
are false， become the foundation for the way we think and act as a societg
Thus， anytime our approach to parenting is unreliable， as it currently is， the
children we raise in the cloud of our confusion fill our homes and `*vorld with
the unclanty we have taught them.
We can t keep using this faulty approach to raising our kids or strive sim-
ply to rearrange it， It s critical that we stand back instead， reevaluate what
we re doing， and start fresh with a new， more workable plan. Only by fully
overhauling our present approach to child-rearing can we start the process
of healing our homes and world. To begin， we must investigate how we got
off track in the first place and what it ，，viii take to right ourselves again.
ATwofold Problem
The first error we make in our approach to parenting lies in the faulty notion
that the formidable job of child management can be learned by reading a few
shorf bobks on the subject， In contrast to this odd assumption， we accept
the premise that infant and baby care books will be extensive and thorough
in their treatment of the importance and methods of nurturing. Yet when the
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