Author: American Social Hygiene Association

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-08-01

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9781333090449

Excerpt from Journal of Social Hygiene, 1948, Vol. 34 The true seriousness of the popularization of such messages lies though in the deepening confusion they must cast upon the family. We must remember that parents have had a long experience of being helped to be better parents. They lived through behaviorism and determinism; they tried on the basis of popular professional advice to treat their children as mechanical eating, evacuating and crying devices, whose salvation as people could only be assured by clockwork training to conditioned responses. They went from the period of no discipline to the current more sensible handling Of authority and discipline on the strength of popularized psychology. They held back their love and tenderness when they were told to, Only to find that this was all a mistake. Now, apparently, they've made another and far more egregious error - they've attempted to give their children a knowledge of the fundamental standards of behavior that are generally accepted by mankind and by which society, as we know it, will make its demands and judgments Of those children. True, the psychiatrist in this instance had a greater quarrel with method than with the content Of parental training but this was more likely to be grasped and under stood by the professionally acclimated reader than by the average parent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.