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lescence, instead of abandoning them
to the pressures of the peer group
(otherwise known as 'other kids')
when they're eight or nine years old,
as many parents now do.
The overweening importance
placed on the child's adjustment to
that peer group, until recently almost
an obsession with parents and many
professionals, is now a hot topic for
debate among people who work with
children. Many now feel that if the in-
fluence of other kids is not balanced
by a warm, close relationship with par-
ents or other adults, deterioration of
uniquely human qualities may take
place.
Cornell University psychologist and
human development specialist Dr. Urie
Bronfenbrenner has been warning for
years that America is headed for seri-
ous trouble if we continue to permit
our children to be brought up by other
children. When it comes to such hu-
man basics as character formation and
moral development, children haven't
much to give each other, he reminds
us.
"In order to become human, children
need contact with adults. We are ex-
periencing at present a breakdown in
the process of making human beings
human. Such qualities as kindness,
mutual trust, cooperation and social
responsibility are a matter of social,
rather than biological, inheritance.
Transmission cannot take place with-
out the participation of the older gen-
eration."
On the cheerful side, some current
trends in child-rearing seem to be
working in favor of the happy child-
hoods that are the foundation of a
healthy society. Growing realization
that parenting is a two-parent affair,
rather than mother's lonely mission, is
one such hopeful sign.
The spread of education-for-parent-
hood courses in high schools is an-
other. These courses not only examine
the problems and pleasures of family
living and acquaint young students
with the general patterns of children's
development, but often give young-
sters the chance to observe and work
with preschoolers in local nursery
schools and day care centers. When
grads of these courses become par-
ents themselves, they'll have some
idea what kids are like at each stage
of growth and their expectations for
their offspring are likely to be more
realistic.
The relaxation of "sex roles," with
their inflexible definitions of what in-
terests, activities and feelings are
"appropriate" for male and female,
also promises changes for the better.
Society should be humanly richer for
boys and girls who are at ease within
their own natures, in tune with their
own temperaments.
Another portent for good is the
emergence of many educators and
psychologists from what might be
termed their "head-hunting" phase —
the years when IQs were held more
important than the kids attached to
them. The question we who live with the
mysteries of children now have to ask
ourselves is: How did we ever permit
ourselves to be "sold" such notions —
and will we ever allow ourselves to be
such gullible consumers again? ■
Morton and Virginia Edwards have
been editing Today's Child, a news-
magazine for 22 years. The magazine
digests medical opinions and studies
about children, reviews children's
books and offers ideas about improv-
ing parent-child relationships. The
magazine has an advisory board made
up of outstanding professionals in the
child development field.
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