I:0:T One very important factor of helpful parenting books is that they should be based quite a bit on the actual personal experience of the authors and not primarily on their formal education or the experience they have in giving professional advice. Formal education is always a plus, for sure, but it's not as crucial as the personal experience of the authors in researching various parenting techniques with their own children and finding out what actually works.
On top of that, it's equally crucial that such parenting book authors be able to accurately assess why some parenting techniques work and others don't. For writers to succeed at doing this on a personal basis they need to actually have and raise some of their own children. (It's also reasonable to assume that a writer who's raised five kids will have a better opportunity to learn more than will a writer who has one or two.)
As most savvy parents know, most parenting book authors seem to be physicians. Many of them view their own parenting expertise (which seems to be gained more from advising other parents in their practices than from personal parenting) as being superior to that of the average parent. Such doctors who think their own professional expertise outweighs that of even vastly experienced parents tend to approach their dispensing of advice with the attitude of superiority, and with the self-perceived status of expert.
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.
On top of that, it's equally crucial that such parenting book authors be able to accurately assess why some parenting techniques work and others don't. For writers to succeed at doing this on a personal basis they need to actually have and raise some of their own children. (It's also reasonable to assume that a writer who's raised five kids will have a better opportunity to learn more than will a writer who has one or two.)
As most savvy parents know, most parenting book authors seem to be physicians. Many of them view their own parenting expertise (which seems to be gained more from advising other parents in their practices than from personal parenting) as being superior to that of the average parent. Such doctors who think their own professional expertise outweighs that of even vastly experienced parents tend to approach their dispensing of advice with the attitude of superiority, and with the self-perceived status of expert.
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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