{"id":6770,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/a-generation-of-brats\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:40","slug":"a-generation-of-brats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/a-generation-of-brats\/","title":{"rendered":"A Generation of Brats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are older than 40 the name Benjamin Spock is more than familiar.  It was Spock that told an entire generation of parents to take it easy, don\u2019t discipline your children and allow them to express themselves.  Discipline, he told us, would warp a child\u2019s fragile ego.  Millions followed this guru of child development and he remained unchallenged among child rearing professionals.  However, before his death Dr. Spock made an amazing discovery: He was wrong.  In fact, he said:<\/p>\n<p>      \u201cWe have reared a generation of brats.  Parents aren\u2019t firm<br \/>\n      enough with their children for fear of losing their love or<br \/>\n      incurring their resentment.  This is a cruel deprivation that we<br \/>\n      professionals have imposed on mothers and fathers.  Of course, we<br \/>\n      did it with the best of intentions.  We didn\u2019t realize until it<br \/>\n      was too late how our know-it-all attitude was undermining the<br \/>\n      self assurance of parents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>[Original illustration at this number was a duplicate of HolwickID #20863]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are older than 40 the name Benjamin Spock is more than familiar. It was Spock that told an entire generation of parents to take it easy, don\u2019t discipline your children and allow them to express themselves. Discipline, he told us, would warp a child\u2019s fragile ego. Millions followed this guru of child development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2357,2356,169,604],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}