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My children's happiness is one of the most important things to me. More important than my own happiness by a long shot. I truly believe that the three most important things for my children to have are health, happiness, and support. So a book about raising happy kids is right up my alley! There is some good advice in this book but also some not so good advice. I definitely agree with the idea of giving children freedom and independance. I was a free range child myself, and I love the idea of raising my kids with that same level of independance. Obviously that won't work for all children, my oldest, Zachary, is non-verbal autistic and needs constant one to one supervision so he will never be able to be a truly free range child. But I still try to find little tasks that he can do by himself to give him some independence. I also strongly agree with the idea of giving a reason when you say no, but I like to expand beyond that. I insist that any rule that exists for my children have a valid reason, otherwise I don't expect them to follow it. If you don't have a valid reason for a rule to exist that you can explain easily to a child, that rule doesn't have a valid reason to exist. I don't agree that only parents are responsible for the child. There are many other influences in a child's life- teachers, grandparents, friends, cousins, media, and more- and that's not even accounting for kids who are being raised by someone other than their parents.
My children's happiness is one of the most important things to me. More important than my own happiness by a long shot. I truly believe that the three most important things for my children to have are health, happiness, and support. So a book about raising happy kids is right up my alley! There is some good advice in this book but also some not so good advice. I definitely agree with the idea of giving children freedom and independance. I was a free range child myself, and I love the idea of raising my kids with that same level of independance. Obviously that won't work for all children, my oldest, Zachary, is non-verbal autistic and needs constant one to one supervision so he will never be able to be a truly free range child. But I still try to find little tasks that he can do by himself to give him some independence. I also strongly agree with the idea of giving a reason when you say no, but I like to expand beyond that. I insist that any rule that exists for my children have a valid reason, otherwise I don't expect them to follow it. If you don't have a valid reason for a rule to exist that you can explain easily to a child, that rule doesn't have a valid reason to exist. I don't agree that only parents are responsible for the child. There are many other influences in a child's life- teachers, grandparents, friends, cousins, media, and more- and that's not even accounting for kids who are being raised by someone other than their parents.
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