“Women began to adopt a proprietary view of child rearing, believing that proper outcomes depended on THEIR devotion, THEIR dedication, and THEIR doing. “Mothering” became a works-based cult-religion of sorts, the implicit understanding being that the more a mother did for her child, the better a mother she was, which is why women often complain that parenting wears them down to a nub.”
(John Rosemond – Clear Truth Media) What happened to child rearing in America between 1965 (the publication of Between Parent and Child, by New York psychologist Haim Ginott) and 1980 (the publication of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by family counselors Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish) is known as a paradigm shift, defined as a fundamental change in the understandings and procedures that inform a certain practice.
During those fifteen years, the needle of child rearing swung 180 degrees, such that pre-1965 and post-1980 child rearing have next to nothing in common. Mental health professionals replaced elders as the go-to experts. Biblical principle yielded to psychological theory. The previously adult-centric family became child-centric. The supposed importance of children possessing self-esteem replaced respect for others. Chores were squeezed out of the picture by after-school and weekend activities. Parent-child relationship eclipsed parent authority. Child rearing became “parenting.”
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