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Teach img your child WRONG by Dorothy K. Whyte Your child's awareness and appreciation of what is right can be his key to a happy, successful life. Unwillingness or inability to be a good, self-reliant citizen can mean abject failure and heartbreak for young people and their parents. DO YOU WANT TO HELP? Parents who recognize their responsibility for essen tial ethical training may not know what they can do t to help. Do you? This inspiring book uses the "case method" of actual family experiences to tell you how to help your child handle the principal problems that are bound to arise along the slow, gradual path of growing up to a sense of social responsibility. The Family advisor of one of the world's largest Insurance Companies offers a dependable answer to your child's problems in acquiring a sense of social responsibility. WHAT EXACTLY DO WE MEAN BY RIGHT OR WRONG? by wanting children to be good and to grow up to be good? Not merely that they be well-mannered, certainly not that they be blindly obedient, and decidedly not that they remain docile and unquestioning. It's a tall order, but ethical behavior is surely the kind of behavior parents want their children to develop. For this is not born into any child; neither is it inherited. It comes from parents' loving recognition that each child is an individual in his own right, and is nurtured by their acceptance of him as he is. WHAT YOU CAN DO TO GUIDE YOUR CHILD'S DEVELOPMENT Straight-from-the shoulder, hard hitting advice is the key note of this book. And the advice is specific. Here are some of the guidelines not formulas for parents in their far from easy task of helping their children become good citizens and happy, self-reliant, contributing members of society: how to start ethical living early how to help a child accept himself how to anticipate a child's actions how to help a child in school and help the school, too how to take a stand about television how to help a child be a part of the family democracy how to deal with prejudice how to explain difficult situations to a child how to keep flexible ABOUT THE AUTHOR For the past twelve years Mrs. Dorothy K. Whyte has ttwn niiwtnr rf th Rrtilnrinl Riironil of thp Hpfllth And Welfare Division of one of the largest Insurance Com 'panies in America. From her desk have come over one hundred pamphlets helping people to better understand ing of themselves and their families. A former Editor of Parents' Magazine and recipient of many awards, her latest commendation is from the Public Health Associ ation of New York City. A constructive, simply written, witty answer to the most important problem facing America's families today how to develop social responsibility in their children Teaching Your Child Right from Wrong in cludes these helpful chapters: The How and Why of Being Good What do we mean by right and wrong? Glad to be a Boy . . . Proud to be a Girl How to help a child accept himself. Spare the Child-How to develop the right feelings and express them constructively. The School and You Mere academic training is not enough. Murder in the Living Room The menace of television: how to help your child acquire taste. Those Scene-Stealing Siblings You can't wish envy away; how to make it easy for the older child. Selfhood: Rx for Brotherhood How to recognize prejudice and abolish it There is Nothing Like a Dad What a father can do for his child's ethical development. Buy, Buy Baby Good and bad attitudes toward money, and other values. Conspiracy of Silence A youngster's silences can be more revealing than his speech. Once More with Feeling How to build parent-child rela tionships as a basis for ethical behavior. WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Teaching Your Child Right from Wrong i a needed and valuable addition to the bookshelf of all parents and child caring personnel. Punctuated by dozens of exam ples, this is the story of how children can and should be stood by and supported in their relentless battle toward growth, maturation, education, socialization and the ac quisition of a capacity to give and take, and love and be loved. This is a book about learning to know the right; having the desire to follow it and the capacity to do so without an aura of the clinical and of psychopathology. This is a book on very real primary prevention of deviant behavior and mental illness. ROBERT E. SWITZER, M.D., Director, Children's Service, The Menninger Foundation Teaching Your Child Right from Wrong is very well done, and in a unique uv. As parents read the tittle case histories throughout the book, they are bound to recall similar happenings in their own families and with their own chldren. Here they will find recognizable examples that might well serve as guides to action in many a puz zling parent-child situation. For this reason, i think the book should be unusually helpful. GEORGE M. WHEATLEY, M.D. FREE 30-DAY EXAMINATION Send 7U we u Let us send you a copy of TEACHING YOUR CHILD RIGHT FROM WRONG to read and use for THIRTY DAYS FREE. Then if you don't agree that it is by far the finest, sanest, most inspiring book on the sub ject you've ever seen, simply send it back and pay nothing. 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