![]() The bottom line is that raising kids is not for whimps. (Even more liberating is the recognition that other parents, too, have dark moments when they catch themselves not liking their own child, or wondering whether it's all worth it, or entertaining various other unspeakable thoughts). ![]() Kohns criticisms of competition and rewards have been widely discussed and debated, and he has been described. ![]() The author of fourteen books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations. I couldn't have predicted how relieved I'd be to learn that other peoples children struggle with the same issues, and act in some of the same ways, mine do. Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. I didn't realize that those deep-breathing exercises mothers are taught in natural-childbirth class dont really start to pay off until long after the child is out. I didn't understand that sometimes when your kids scream so loudly that the neighbors are ready to call the Department of Child Services, it's because you've served the wrong shape of pasta for dinner. ![]() I didn't know how exhausted it was possible to become, or how clueless it was possible to feel, or how, each time I reached the end of my rope, I would somehow have to find more rope. “Even before i had children, I knew that being a parent was going to be challenging as well as rewarding. ![]()
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