re: #107 ggt

Strange, when I was read a lot of the self-help books on raising “a strong-willed child” one of my main concerns was raising a child who would hopefully resist drugs and alcohol. There is a lot of addiction in my family and some of those individuals were really having problems when my son was young. It was a HUGE concern of mine.

What I read in the psychology (preventing addiction) type books was almost exactly the same as what I read in the “religious” bent books (raising a responsible person) (Dobson and some Catholic stuff)—positive reinforcement —firm boundaries — freedom within those boundaries. Allow the child to learn a sense of accomplishment —don’t do everything for him. Let him make mistakes and learn from those mistakes …

I didn’t read any of those ideas in the educational-bent books.

A psychology book isn’t an educational-bent book?