The Philosophy of Parenting For Everyone (PFE)
Parenting For Everyone is a book on parenting which discusses in depth the goals, conditions and means of upbringing. It continues by going into detail about upbringing the heart, spirit and intelligence of a child through communication, cooperation, and co-creativity.
The basic premise of PFE is the “foundation of the good life of a man is being conscientious and kind.” The author strongly believed that kindness is the key to raising good children. According to the author there must be at least one person in a child’s life who sets a good example for a child, showing kindness to the child. What matters most is that someone in the child’s life “sincerely and deeply, and without hesitation believes in kindness and honesty, or in love and conscience”. This premise has been touted by child psychologists and other how-to authors of parenting books.
Raising a kind child is done by allowing the child to be kind. People teach children about freedom by letting them be free, teach responsibility by letting them be responsible, teach goodness and conscience through goodness and conscience, and people teach children to be happy by being happy, because ‘we raise not a child but a man”.
There are three major precepts that come up again and again in this book: truth, goodness and beauty. The truth is that there is a definite line between good and evil; people generally know this and accept it. This knowing and acceptance is called intelligence. For a child/man to be a complete human means that person’s heart, spirit, and intelligence needs to be developed. The truth about a man is that man is created for goodness, for infinitely increasing dignity. People are free when they learn the truth about themselves.
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