The Positive Parent: Raising Children the Scientific Way.

Cagan, Elizabeth

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ERIC Number: EJ220388

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Publication Date: 1980

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The Positive Parent: Raising Children the Scientific Way.

Cagan, Elizabeth

Social Policy, v10 n4 p41-48 Jan-Feb 1980

Author reviews behavior modification techniques as presented in books written to help parents rear children. Analyzes theoretical and ideological assumptions on which these parenting books are based. Concludes that these books reveal a fundamental disregard for children as persons and therefore require careful and critical evaluation. (Author/JLF)

Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Theories, Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Discipline, Parent Child Relationship, Parenthood Education

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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