4 CHILD REARING BASICS - Brian Knowles - July 1976

Brian Knowles

For so many unfortunate children, life is an endless series of "don'ts," "nos," "can'ts," "stop!" "don't do that," "be quiet," "maybe," "sit still," "no, you can't go there," etc. It's all completely negative. Merely seeking to control a child's activities, noise level, and attitudes is a short-sighted approach to child rearing. Enlightened parents operate on the basis of long range goals. They seek to produce an end product. We are all the end result of our parents' child-rearing methods (or lack of them), our environments, etc. In fact, much of modern psychology is based upon the principle of tracing adult problems back to their childhood origins. The Bible tells us: "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Prov. 22:6, RSV). - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library