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Research on Parenting and Child Development "...the capacity to work in childhood is a more significant determinant of success in all aspects of living than I.Q., social class or economic level." Harvard Medical School |
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60 Year Longitudinal Study Shows Value of Work in Childhood Psychodynamic psychiatrists Valliant and Valliant (1981) reported that for underprivileged men the capacity to work learned in childhood predicted mental health and capacity for relationships at mid-life. It surpassed family problems and all other childhood variables in predicting success in adult life.
Work and Values Study (in .pdf format) Text version THE ROLE OF VALUES, THEORY AND RESEARCH Childhood socialization influences adult work performance and job satisfaction.
The Sacred Nature of Everyday Work by Kathleen Bahr What appears to be drudgery may answer your toughest relationship problems.
Fostering Resilience in Children by Bonnie Benard We are all born with an innate capacity for resilience, by which we are able to develop social competence, problem-solving skills, a critical consciousness, autonomy, and a sense of purpose.
We're Too Frightened to Deal with the Real Issues in Alcohol Substance Abuse by Stanton Peele Contemporary America is obsessed with self destructive drug and alcohol use. Rather than dealing with what in fact underlies such behavior, we are preoccupied with seeking biological explanations for our personal and social sense of loss and searching for medical cures for our cultural failures and existential malaise. This elaborate social defense mechanism, which at times achieves the level of psychosis, masks and ultimately exacerbates our deepest fears that we cannot cope with our worlds.
Raised Tough by Taylor Caldwell If all the softness and weakness and delayed manhood and womanhood I now see in America had led to firmer and more noble characters, to more justice and honor and principle and patriotism and virtue, to better health and longer life, to less disease and fewer of the "retarded," to more manliness and courage among Senior Citizens, to more pride and harder work, to more intelligence and industry, to more respect for America in the world, or deeper regard for learning, I suppose I could tuck in my irritation and bear it. But it has led to the exact reverse.
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