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Three mothers were sitting on a park bench. The first sighed. The
second groaned. The third said, ‘I thought we weren’t going to talk
about the children’.
A lot of sweat, turmoil, tears, wailing and gnashing of teeth have
gone into Raising Real People. Thankfully, most of it hasn’t been mine.
This book is not only based on research but also on thousands upon
thousands of stories of parents who have developed cunning methods
for raising their children.
This updated version of the book expands my thinking on what is
going on for the current group of young people, the ‘Click and Go’
generation. Parenting them and motivating them is a very different
ball game from the issues that faced parents in previous generations.
The way that we protect them from the ‘nasties’ of life – violence, selfharm,
drug abuse – while guiding them towards leading fulfilling lives,
is the trickiest job around.
You can’t learn parenting from a book. What you can learn is how
other parents in similar situations have handled some of the issues you
face and then use this to come up with a version that works in your
family.
I hope this book inspires you to develop your own bold style of
parenting. I’d like to open it with one of my favourite stories:
A mother was fed up with her son’s use of a popular swear word
beginning with the letter ‘F’.
‘Every second word he said was F’ing this and F’ing that and to be honest, I was F’ing sick of it,’ she told me. ‘So eventually I told him,
‘Each time you use that word I’m going to kiss you.’
‘Last Saturday morning we were out shopping and he used the “F”
word, so I laid the biggest, the smoochiest, the most motherly kiss
you’ve ever seen on him, in public. Since then, every time he seems
close to swearing he looks across at me with a worried look on his face
and stops.’
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Australian Council for Educational Research; January 2002
222 pages; ISBN 9780864314246
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222 pages; ISBN 9780864314246
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