One important factor of the most helpful parenting books possible is that they are based substantially on the writers' personal experience and not just on their formal education or their professional advice-giving experience. Formal education is no doubt a bonus for writers of parenting books, but it isn't as crucial as personal experience in actually using and assessing many parenting techniques when raising their own children.
As well, it's so important for parenting book writers to be able to figure out why certain parenting techniques seem to work and others don't. Writers who succeed at this on a personal level actually have to raise some of their own kids. (It seems logical, also, that writers who raise more children stand to learn more about raising them than do writers who raise fewer children.)
As most savvy parents know, most parenting book authors seem to be physicians. Many of them view their own parenting expertise (which seems to be gained more from advising other parents in their practices than from personal parenting) as being superior to that of the average parent. Such doctors who think their own professional expertise outweighs that of even vastly experienced parents tend to approach their dispensing of advice with the attitude of superiority, and with the self-perceived status of expert.
Multitudes of such professional parenting experts advise other parents, for example, with certainty, that temper tantrums are a normal, natural, and highly unavoidable and unpreventable part of raising kids. Yet there are thousands and maybe millions of everyday parents who know different.
This points out a problem that expert parent advisors often have: their formal education often steers them wrong on such issues as temper-tantrum inevitability. Their university courses often give them faulty, handed-down concepts such as this from past generations of expert scholars. This is why it's so important for people who are writing parenting books to first gain a reasonable level of personal parenting experience.
As well, it's so important for parenting book writers to be able to figure out why certain parenting techniques seem to work and others don't. Writers who succeed at this on a personal level actually have to raise some of their own kids. (It seems logical, also, that writers who raise more children stand to learn more about raising them than do writers who raise fewer children.)
As most savvy parents know, most parenting book authors seem to be physicians. Many of them view their own parenting expertise (which seems to be gained more from advising other parents in their practices than from personal parenting) as being superior to that of the average parent. Such doctors who think their own professional expertise outweighs that of even vastly experienced parents tend to approach their dispensing of advice with the attitude of superiority, and with the self-perceived status of expert.
Multitudes of such professional parenting experts advise other parents, for example, with certainty, that temper tantrums are a normal, natural, and highly unavoidable and unpreventable part of raising kids. Yet there are thousands and maybe millions of everyday parents who know different.
This points out a problem that expert parent advisors often have: their formal education often steers them wrong on such issues as temper-tantrum inevitability. Their university courses often give them faulty, handed-down concepts such as this from past generations of expert scholars. This is why it's so important for people who are writing parenting books to first gain a reasonable level of personal parenting experience.
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