The child' happine i al I-important, the pychologit ay, but what about the parent' happine? Parent uffer contantly from fear and guilt while their children gaily romp about pulling the place apart. A good old-fahioned panking i out of the quetion: no modern child-rearing manual would permit uch barbarity. The trouble i you are not allowed even to hout. Who know what dccp pychological wound you might inflict? Certainly a child need love, and a lot of it. But the exceive permiivene of modern parent i urely doing more harm than good.
Lax authority over the year make adolecent rebellion againt parent all the more violent. If the young people are going to have a party, for intance, parent are aked to leave the houe. Their preence merely poil the fun. What ele can the poor parent do but obey?
Children are hardy creature (far hardier than the pychologit would have u believe) and mot of them urvive the harmful influence of extreme permiivene which i the normal condition in the modern houehold. But a great many do not. The pread of juvenile delinquency in our own age i
largely due to parental laxity.
The pychologit have much to anwer for. They hould keep their mouth hut and let parent get on with the job.And if children are knocked about a little bit in the proce, it may not really matter too much. At leat thi will help them to develop vigorou view of their own and give them omething poitive to react againt. Perhap there' ome truth in the idea that children who' ve had an exce of happine in their childhood fail to make a ucce of life.[由wWw.HaozuoWen.com整理]