Are you a book worm?😃Me - yes. Books are my best friends, teachers and funs, and it started long ago when I just was taught to read.
I read all books that we had at home even if they were not for kids - adults detective stories, mother's love novels, books about cating care of babies and newborns - everything that had letters inside:)
But one book was missed somehow. I remember it well but it didn't rise my interest maybe because it was not very thick and not very brights, without pictures and with a strange title "So different kids".
I've found it recently somwehere deep on the shelf, and now when I am very interested in kids psychology and upbringing, I was very interested at once.
So time of this book has come for me;)
The author - Tatyana Titarenko is a psychologist, doctor of psychological sciences, professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine, author of about 400 scientific papers and 12 books.
My book was published in 1989. So it's 33 years!
At first, I was sure that such an old book from the USSR couldn't tell me anything new. Not because I am a super scientist already, just because of soviet manner of upbringing and outlook. It was rather specific, and I see its results now in my parents and in all people of that generation.
Words like "No matter what you want - you must" were rather typical for that time, and I was sure this book would tell something like this.
But how mistaken I was!
The book was about absolutely different type of upbringing - about personalities, individual approach and a great role of parents and family atmosphere for kids development!
I was in love with it from the first chapter, and I read it just for some hours without any pauses. It was a real bomb for that time I think.
That's some words from this great book:
Kids come to definite families, where their way in this life begins. First impressions, joyful and bitter, surprise and interest, resentment and disappointment, the origins of future relationships with people - everything arises in the family. At this time, individual characteristics are manifested, moral values are laid, the foundations of a future personality are formed, open to people or directed only to themselves.
Every childhood biography, a life story full of adventures, obstacles, surprises and trials, begins with the family, with mom and dad, their relationships, the microclimate they create. This individual story requires respect, careful attitude from those people, who are in fact co-authors of kids life story.
So, the main characters of the individual story of any child are he himself and his relatives. It is they who become his guides, translators, ambassadors in the complex and ambiguous adult world. The chosen path
depends on them, they set the speed of movement, the pace of development of individuality, the success of socialization is determined by their efforts. Therefore, only self-development, self-improvement, constant work of parents create in the family the atmosphere necessary for the normal development of children.
I googled, and was glat to see that this book was republished many times, and it's still popular now.
It helps parents to understand how great responsibility is on their shoulders, and how we can really help our kids to be happy kids and happy adults in future.
