I:0:T One important factor of the most helpful parenting books possible is that they are based substantially on the writers' personal experience and not just on their formal education or their professional advice-giving experience. Formal education is no doubt a bonus for writers of parenting books, but it isn't as crucial as personal experience in actually using and assessing many parenting techniques when raising their own children.
Also, it's important for these writers to be able to analyze why certain techniques work and why others don't. Writers who are able to do this on a personal basis need to actually raise some of their own kids. (Logically, it makes sense that writers who raise more of their own children actually have a chance of learning more than writers who have fewer children.)
Most authors of parenting books, as we parents have noticed, are physicians who tend to view their expertise in advising parents in their practices (and not necessarily their own parenting expertise) as equaling or bettering the average parent's expertise. Physicians like this, who view their own professional parenting expertise as superior to that of average, even highly experienced parents, often see themselves as experts.
Multitudes of such professional parenting experts advise other parents, for example, with certainty, that temper tantrums are a normal, natural, and highly unavoidable and unpreventable part of raising kids. Yet there are thousands and maybe millions of everyday parents who know different.
This brings up a problem that expert parenting advisors seems to often have: their formal training easily steers them wrong on issues such as temper tantrum inevitability. This is because in their university courses they are often given faulty, handed-down beliefs of past generations. That's why it's important for writers of parenting books to gain a reasonable amount of personal parenting experience.
Also, it's important for these writers to be able to analyze why certain techniques work and why others don't. Writers who are able to do this on a personal basis need to actually raise some of their own kids. (Logically, it makes sense that writers who raise more of their own children actually have a chance of learning more than writers who have fewer children.)
Most authors of parenting books, as we parents have noticed, are physicians who tend to view their expertise in advising parents in their practices (and not necessarily their own parenting expertise) as equaling or bettering the average parent's expertise. Physicians like this, who view their own professional parenting expertise as superior to that of average, even highly experienced parents, often see themselves as experts.
Multitudes of such professional parenting experts advise other parents, for example, with certainty, that temper tantrums are a normal, natural, and highly unavoidable and unpreventable part of raising kids. Yet there are thousands and maybe millions of everyday parents who know different.
This brings up a problem that expert parenting advisors seems to often have: their formal training easily steers them wrong on issues such as temper tantrum inevitability. This is because in their university courses they are often given faulty, handed-down beliefs of past generations. That's why it's important for writers of parenting books to gain a reasonable amount of personal parenting experience.
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