How do American parents raise their children

Author: Gu Sulei
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: This is a book about parents' strong desire for their children to succeed. What are the consequences of pressuring children and having overly high expectations for their success? This book will show you how to break free from this behavior and establish a healthy and beneficial family education model. Based on her nearly two decades of clinical experience, Dr. Gu Sulei analyzes the negative outcomes of competitive parenting methods. For parents who want their toddlers to learn foreign languages or demand that first-grade students excel in all activities, this book can tell them that placing too high expectations on children during early education often leads to their failure in the future. The pressure parents put on their children can cause them to lose their natural inclinations and curiosity. When children are pushed, the message they receive from their parents is: they cannot make the right decisions on their own; appearance is more important than the heart; obtaining a diploma or a good reputation is more important than real-life experiences. Dr. Gu Sulei attempts to differentiate between good family education and "pushy" family education, clearly explaining the fallacy of society viewing children with average intelligence as "imperfect" or "failures." For parents concerned about their children's education, the advice this book offers is: allowing children's natural inclinations to develop freely is very practical.