SETTING LIMITS ON CHILDRENS BEHAVIOR - BU T WHY AND HOW

Children need limits. But how can we get them to voluntary accept set limits? On the one hand it will be discussed that this aim cannot be a chieved by ''reasoning'' or ''inductive'' child-rearing, which are com mon/wide-spread today, and the reasons will explained, on the other ha nd alternative non-authoritarian child-rearing practices which prevent forced acceptance or flouting of the limits imposed on the child will be described.