Our Parenting Crisis<br > A Growing and Dangerous Problem<br > Imbalance can make parenting seem like Mr Toad~ Wild Ride.<br >Our society is in chaos， due largely to the weakness of our current child-r~ar-<br >ing methods. These methods werefft working for me when t was raising my<br >children， and they arefft working for parents today<br > Unfortunately， the parenting methods used in our homes， whether effec-<br >tive or not， become the standard for the way we handle children at school;<br >and what we do in our schools permeates our entire society--our businesses，<br >professions， legal systems， and government.<br > This happens because the concepts we teach our kids， even when they<br >are false， become the foundation for the way we think and act as a societg<br >Thus， anytime our approach to parenting is unreliable， as it currently is， the<br >children we raise in the cloud of our confusion fill our homes and `*vorld with<br >the unclanty we have taught them.<br > We can t keep using this faulty approach to raising our kids or strive sim-<br >ply to rearrange it， It s critical that we stand back instead， reevaluate what<br >we re doing， and start fresh with a new， more workable plan. Only by fully<br >overhauling our present approach to child-rearing can we start the process<br >of healing our homes and world. To begin， we must investigate how we got<br >off track in the first place and what it ，，viii take to right ourselves again.<br >ATwofold Problem<br >The first error we make in our approach to parenting lies in the faulty notion<br >that the formidable job of child management can be learned by reading a few<br >shorf bobks on the subject， In contrast to this odd assumption， we accept<br >the premise that infant and baby care books will be extensive and thorough<br >in their treatment of the importance and methods of nurturing. Yet when the<br >