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The principal cause of all nervous breakdown lies in the wrong treatment of the child by his parents. The business of parenthood is the greatest in life: the need of the world is for new parenthood: the aim of the parent should be that the child should grow up a better parent for the next generation. Failures in parenthood are many. 1. Failure to realize the child's make-up: parents are not potters to mould clay, but gardeners to protect bulbs. 2. Tendency to patronage: discouragement of real independence in the child. 3. Unwillingness to take risks for the child. 4. Sin of standing between the child and self-realization: domination of family tradition and its effects. The child must be allowed to choose his own track and scale his own peak of the mountain of God. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)