Good Kids, Bad Kids - Successful Parenting Techniques - (Second Edition)

Author: Wei Yali
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Being a parent is hard, and being a child is tiring—this has become a common social phenomenon. The main reason lies in the fact that, in most families, parents love their children but do not understand their psychological needs and lack communication skills with them. Psychological expert Wei Yali has dedicated herself to the study of parent-child relationships and family education in recent years. Good Kids, Bad Kids? is a work based on her theoretical and practical foundations in the field of parent-child relationship psychology. There was once a book that influenced generations, its name being How the Steel Was Tempered. I believe many are not unfamiliar with it. This book, along with Good Parents, Bad Parents—Parent-Child Relationship Communication Skills, are two popular family education psychology books that help parents "turn stone into gold" and recognize and discover their children's inner qualities and values. Metaphorically speaking, they are also two guidebooks that "temper stone into steel," but here, the "stone" is not literal stone, and the "steel" is not literal steel—it refers to two stages of development for children. The main idea of this book is simple: children's growth requires parents' care, protection, and proper guidance. In reality, children who are too young to understand the world have no inherent distinction between "good" and "bad." The terms "good child" and "bad child" have no necessary connection to future success. Every child is an angel, and they all have lovable and admirable qualities. The line between "good" and "bad" children is not so clear-cut. With proper education, a "bad" child can achieve something, while a "good" child may also make mistakes.