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.
On top of that, it's equally crucial that such parenting book authors be able to accurately assess why some parenting techniques work and others don't. For writers to succeed at doing this on a personal basis they need to actually have and raise some of their own children. (It's also reasonable to assume that a writer who's raised five kids will have a better opportunity to learn more than will a writer who has one or two.)
Most authors of parenting books, as we parents have noticed, are physicians who tend to view their expertise in advising parents in their practices (and not necessarily their own parenting expertise) as equaling or bettering the average parent's expertise. Physicians like this, who view their own professional parenting expertise as superior to that of average, even highly experienced parents, often see themselves as experts.
Many such professional parenting experts, for instance, advise other parents, with surety, that temper tantrums are a highly unpreventable part of raising children. But thousands, maybe millions, of regular parents know that to be false.
This points out one problem that expert parenting advice givers have-their formal education can easily steer them onto the wrong path when it comes to such topics as temper-tantrum inevitability. In university programs students are given many faulty, handed-down, unchallenged beliefs such as this from past generations of professionals. That is just one reason why it's important for those who want to write helpful parenting books to have first gained a reasonable amount of parenting experience.
On top of that, it's equally crucial that such parenting book authors be able to accurately assess why some parenting techniques work and others don't. For writers to succeed at doing this on a personal basis they need to actually have and raise some of their own children. (It's also reasonable to assume that a writer who's raised five kids will have a better opportunity to learn more than will a writer who has one or two.)
Most authors of parenting books, as we parents have noticed, are physicians who tend to view their expertise in advising parents in their practices (and not necessarily their own parenting expertise) as equaling or bettering the average parent's expertise. Physicians like this, who view their own professional parenting expertise as superior to that of average, even highly experienced parents, often see themselves as experts.
Many such professional parenting experts, for instance, advise other parents, with surety, that temper tantrums are a highly unpreventable part of raising children. But thousands, maybe millions, of regular parents know that to be false.
This points out one problem that expert parenting advice givers have-their formal education can easily steer them onto the wrong path when it comes to such topics as temper-tantrum inevitability. In university programs students are given many faulty, handed-down, unchallenged beliefs such as this from past generations of professionals. That is just one reason why it's important for those who want to write helpful parenting books to have first gained a reasonable amount of parenting experience.
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