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The Character Clockprovides prescriptive knowledge for parents of difficult children; yet my message is for all our caring society.

We have created a culture that has made life so "happy" fun directed and self-oriented that we are rearing children with few basic character skills.Working with parents struggling with these children has given me the opportunity to view the roots of character disorder and character development.

In the mental health community it is unorthodox, radical- even revolutionary to suggest that too much comfort and too many unconditional positives are destructive.Yet children reared with this free flow of "goodies" are corrupted by it and have no motivation to grow towards their own future with self-improvement hunger.Also these self-preoccupied children don't reach out to learn the skills of empathy and love.

Parents who yield too much control give their child a deadly gift: the power to hang on to the baby behavior, which is easy and familiar.No one rushes to give up the behavior of a three-year old: won't do it unless it's fun, easy dominance through aggression, and the classic trap of "It's not my fault."

Parents who take control early to guide and train the hard skills of personal maturity will have a child character, who bonds with them and society.Parent's who don't struggle forever with a selfish, defiant, poorly motivated child who moves to adulthood the same character is stunted.

This parenting process requires the early introduction of some reality-based discomfort into the child's life to induce receptivity to growth messages.This is a principle of life that we have lost in our affluent, super secure, fun loving culture.We need joyous fulfillment in adulthood and not shallow fun in childhood. ... Read more

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A welcome addition to personal and community library parenting reference collections and reading lists
The Character Clock: Countdown For Your Child To Character Development Or Character Disorder by developmental psychologist C. R. Partridge is an insightfully informative introduction to the physical and emotional maturing of children and the gradual, inevitable loss of the general childish tenancies. Providing an in-depth analysis and study of immaturity relating to certain character disorders and their roots in excessive comfort, control, and misapplied power, The Character Clock explains to parents and caregivers how immature behavior can become destructive, baby behavior can become addictive, particular cases of disorderly children have only their parents to face for explanation. A welcome addition to personal and community library parenting reference collections and reading lists, Dr. Partridge's The Character Clock is very strongly recommended for all concerned parents searching for an informative explanation of their child's progressive mentality and psychological state as teenage life approaches and puberty affects behavior with destructive results for almost ten percent of children.
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