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...book The Nature of the Child [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 22], Jerome Kagan is throwing out the baby with the bathwater when he discounts the influence of the environment on a youngster's development. Kagan's defection from the environmental camp may exacerbate the growing tendency to excuse parents and societies from social responsibilities by citing sociobiological theories...
...parent of three now grown adopted children of different genetic backgrounds, my experience confirms Kagan's observations. Our children's moral and emotional characteristics developed with almost total disregard to the values my wife and I attempted to instill...
Your report on Jerome Kagan's theories of child development indicates that parents would like all their children to be extraverted and fearless. I knew a child like that, and true to his nature, he fell out of a tree and died. Your story also implied that youngsters who have relatively major health problems grow up to be introverts. I learned about a boy like that. He grew up to be President Theodore Roosevelt...
...Jerome Kagan has finally acknowledged what most mothers have always known: each child arrives in the world with an individual personality. Psychologists have imposed an enormous burden on parents by insisting that they are somehow solely responsible for their children's personalities. Now parents can sit back and enjoy each child's uniqueness...
...child development at the New York State department of education, says that demanding kindergartens create too much stress for the youngsters and can have damaging consequences. She warns, "We have data which say absolutely that if you 'structure' too quickly you kill creative thinking." Sharon Lynn Kagan, an assistant professor of education at Yale, agrees that formal instruction in subjects Like reading is inappropriate for the very young. "Kindergarten should be a readiness time," she says. "It's a time to socialize, a time to elevate the child's motivation...