I'll consider myself a very lucky lady indeed if I someday find myself married to a man who agrees that children should be reared with less flattery & bribery and more structured expectations in the home.
People (with special emphasis on their formative childhoods) need less self-esteem-building and more order. They need to be taught excellence, not self-acceptance (which will come with excellence). They need to be taught duty, not dreams (a dutiful person will still dream and will be more likely to achieve those dreams, if in light of duty's rewards, a particular dream continues to hold sway).
Duty, excellence, self-discipline, obedience, charity. All things I am putting off the learning-of while writing this small rant.
