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Affectionate Parents Are Usually: The parental attitude most favorable for child development is what Sanford has called "affectionate training," or acceptance plus "affectionate training." Children of affectionate parents are usually outgoing, confident, orderly, independent, and affectionate. They tend to yield to reasonable social pressure. They are not "spoiled." Children may become "spoiled" when they are given everything they want except their parents' affection. Yet, love is not enough (12, 1950).
Children learn first and foremost from their parents. In this respect all parents are teachers - and very effective teachers they are. Arguably, children learn more from their parents in the first five years of life than they do from their schools in the next ten. This book is about parents and teachers working together to help children with their learning; more specifically, it is about parents co-operating with teachers over their own children's reading. We have chosen the term PACT (Parents, Children and Teachers) to embody this concept.
It cannot be stressed enough that the school is entering into a partnership, and that the parents with whom this partnership is to be formed have their own opinions and feelings, which need into account. Teachers will find it possible to devise a set of guidelines for use by parents which they can feel perfectly confident about sharing. In our experience, though, there are one or two temptations to beware of One is to make your advice to parents much too complex, because of anxiety about parents getting it 'wrong'.
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