Family Day By Day : หน้า 47/216 Discover effective methods for raising intelligent, strong, and virtuous children. Understand the importance of knowledge and time in parenting.
Part Two: Raising Children
Learning the time-tested, proper methods to raise children
is a vital task for all parents. A child who is smart but weak
will probably not be successful with their personal goals,
just as a child who is strong but not smart will not succeed
either. A child must usually triumph in both areas in order
to be personally successful. In some families, parents have
intelligent children, but parents simply do not know anything
about how to raise them to be strong, savvy, independent, and
moral. As a result, children are more likely to cause trouble for
themselves and for others - then the parents are puzzled over
what went wrong with their parenting. In order for children
to be smart, strong AND virtuous, parent must have available
parenting resources, acquired knowledge, and adequate time
to raise and teach their children how to be solid members of
society. Since families interpret and implement their own
parenting styles differently, there are essentially four types
of families existing in the world today:
1. A family that has time but no knowledge.
2. A family that has knowledge but no time.
3. A family that has no knowledge NOR time.
4. A family that has both knowledge AND time.
In the first three types of families, children receive very
little moral training. Some children are born into wealthy
families and have every material possession that they want,
yet they can receive little parental supervision (Group #2).
These children have a high chance of becoming misled.
Children raised by parents who have both
knowledge and time generally receive continuous
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