A very important factor of parenting books that are helpful is that they come substantially from the writers' personal experience and not primarily from their formal education or from their professional advice-giving experience. The formal education of writers is a plus, no doubt, but it isn't as important at their personal experience in trying out and assessing parenting techniques while they raise their own children.
Also, it's important for these writers to be able to analyze why certain techniques work and why others don't. Writers who are able to do this on a personal basis need to actually raise some of their own kids. (Logically, it makes sense that writers who raise more of their own children actually have a chance of learning more than writers who have 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 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.
Also, it's important for these writers to be able to analyze why certain techniques work and why others don't. Writers who are able to do this on a personal basis need to actually raise some of their own kids. (Logically, it makes sense that writers who raise more of their own children actually have a chance of learning more than writers who have 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 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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