Noteworthy Approach to Parenting ; Comment
Herald Express; Torquay (UK) › September 17, 2009
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I'M QUITE liking the Charles Dickens approach to bringing up children.
According to a new biographer, the great Victorian novelist had obsessive compulsive disorder and one of the symptoms was his strict domestic routine.See the full content of this document
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Noteworthy Approach to Parenting ; Comment
Every morning he would inspect his children's bedrooms and leave them notes if he wasn't happy.
Compared to beating them all soundly with a stick and sending them up chimneys with only a bowl of gruel a day, I thought Dickens's notes sounded like positively enlightened parenting, not OCD.Wondering how this Dickensian approach would work with today's kids, I took a le...See the full content of this document
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