YOUTH, PERMISSIVENESS, AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

[摘要] As unrest grows in our social scene, as institutions undergo change, as innovations revolutionize everyday living, there is among many a longing to return to affirmations of older and simpler virtues. Their discontent often is expressed in a condemnation of youthful rebellion and, by extension, of youth and child care practices. It tends to focus upon "permissiveness" as the main cause of youthful lawlessness and laxity of behavior.In American society the elaboration of methods of child rearing to bewildered parents by specialists in behavior, medical and nonmedical, is not new. nonmedical, is not new. In the early twenties character formation, according to the behavioristic psychology of Watson, was thought to be best achieved by a firm and rigid schedule, early developed, rigorously obeyed, and meticulously followed.

[学科分类] 儿科学