Observation in over 3,000 classrooms prompted a real concern about the lack of internal control and the high need for external control in classroom settings.
Research documents a significant change in children's behavior in the last the ten years.
Many young people today lack a sense of identity, purpose, self-respect, and responsibility for their own actions. With sociological and technological changes, there are fewer natural occasions for children to learn the basic prerequisites of caring, sharing, deciding, acting and following through. Parents today often have little opportunity or training in how to teach these social skills. While it is valuable to train educators to provide these abilities, the parent is the child's primary teacher and should be the focus of training. Parents hold the key to building social values.