Have you ever wondered, “Should I be a strict parent, setting rules for my child to follow to help him grow up disciplined, or should I become his best friend, he will share everything with me?”, “But if I become his best friend, how do I forbid him from playing video games or watching social media?”, “Why are children today more fragile than previous generations?”. This book will answer all of these questions for you.
Have you ever wondered, “Should I be a strict parent, setting rules for my child to follow to help him grow up disciplined, or should I become his best friend, he will share everything with me?”, “But if I become his best friend, how do I forbid him from playing video games or watching social media?”, “Why are children today more fragile than previous generations?”. This book will answer all of these questions for you.
Author Leonard Sax is a family physician and also a PhD in Psychology. In this book, he analyzes the correlation between youth – family – society relationships in the US, its problems, causes and solutions. Although the social context is the US, there are many similarities with current Vietnamese society that parents and teachers in Vietnam can refer to in order to perform their roles well in the current trend of cultural exchange.
In a study of 1,000 American teenagers, their attitudes toward their parents were described as “ungrateful and contemptuous.” Wow, would you believe that? And this disrespect doesn’t just happen between children and their parents, but also between them. Children with a culture of disrespect are obese, uncreative, unresilient, fragile, …. why?
It is because of the “collapse of parenting”, parents have lost or are confused about their authority. Parents no longer guide their children to accept their culture – that of adults, but try to adapt to the culture of children, the culture they learn from the internet, from their friends – children who are not necessarily capable of guiding themselves to adulthood.
Although the responsibility of teaching culture to children belongs not only to parents, but also to the participation of society, schools and communities. However, what has changed compared to before? How has education in schools changed? How have entertainment programs on TV, music publications, pictures, fashion, etc. changed? How do technology and devices continue to undermine parental authority? Confusion about children's independence, parents' misconceptions and confusion. Wow, a dozen problems!
But rest assured, that is only the first half of the book. In the rest, the author will help us solve all the above problems. After reading this book, I felt enlightened, extremely relieved, no longer confused or worried. This is truly a very valuable handbook, especially in the era of technology and internet development.
Some of his other books:
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Finally, here is the author's website for your reference: https://www.leonardsax.com/
Thank you.
