#PARENTING

Children in the worlds most successful nations are not as well behaved or as well equipped to learn as they were in the past. Bringing up children has never been easy, but nowadays it's a minefield. Social changes have been no less startling. The pressure of work for all parents have increased enormously; marriages are less stable and cohabitation and divorce widespread. Unfortunately, children are not fully developed adults, they still have to move along that development continuum, acquiring the habits of civilised behaviour. Focused attention, deferred gratification, self-control , empathy and other important lessons can't be learned at electric speed.