CHILDREN AND AUTHORITY NOWADAYS

Abstract

This is an educational issue much discussed  in many familias and teachers. Facing the demands of these terrible children or, as Aucouturier calls them“enfants terribles”, who abuse their families, parents find themselves with few resources to impose limits. Parents discomfort its increasing, blaming of not being “good parents”, using authoritarian or laissez-faire. The problem of these children is that the atmosphere where they live can’t say “no” to them, the parents are not able to put them limits, they have difficulties in imposing. Given these dynamics, How can we enforce authority, knowing that this authority is an educational action involved in the psyche of the child and his social evolution?