What Are Your Aims in Raising a Child? Think about your goals. What kind of adults do you want your children to become? Is doing well in school your top objective for them? Is the ability to have close relationships important? Do you want them to be competitive in our dog-eat-dog society, or do you want them to learn to cooperate and sometimes defer to others?
What Are Your Aims in Raising a Child?
Parenting is about choices. So many parents get so caught up in the difficult day-to-day issues of how they are parenting that they lose perspective about why they are parenting in the first place. I hope that raising your children will help you to clarify what’s truly important to you, and that these insights will guide the choices you make.
This is article collection from The Common Sense Guide to Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock. The article you are reading was first published more than 65 years ago. When it came out in 1945, The Common Sense Guide to Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock revolutionized parenting and changed the lives of a generation. The children of that generation are the grandparents of this one. Maybe they are your parents. So, in a way, you might be “a child of Spock.” I know I am.