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Psychotic Parents Twenty: Without the environmental stimulus, the child may entirely escape the predisposition; even when a mental disease has started, its progress is ordinarily determined by factors other than heredity. No disorder is incurable because of its hereditary components (22, 1953). A follow-up study (31, 1945) of children of alcoholic and psychotic parents twenty years after they had been placed in foster homes, showed no child of psychotic parents who became psychotic arid none of alcoholic parents who became alcoholic. Practically all were leading useful lives, although 30 per cent showed evidence of emotional disturbances.
The help that parents can provide is of a sort particularly suited to the teaching of reading. Learning to read may sometimes even be best done in the home, in what is often a one-to-one setting, without distraction from twenty-five or thirty other children. And home is a good place for settling down to look at a book together, for it is usually a place of emotional closeness and security; at the least, it is likely to be the place where the most significant emotional bonds exist. There is time to talk about what you are reading - and parents are especially well placed to relate the words and stories to the child's own personal experience and interests.
Children tell me who has read with them, show off new clothes. Parents tell me informally of any apprehension about or dissatisfaction with children's progress. Briefer versions are aired in the classrooms, of course, but with twenty-five or so children waiting even the most self-centred parent soon realizes a teacher's limitations as a listener under these circumstances. This is also the time when I start dropping hints of proposed changes, plans, events, meetings; when I in turn listen to suggestions, answer questions, seek and give advice (not only on school matters but on any other subject which the parents and I deem necessary or relevant).
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