Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Teen Motivation: Design the Self-Concept™

Design the Self-Concept™ is Chapter 10 of Petunia's Book. I will not go into the definition of Design the Self-Concept™ here. This is amply explained in Petunia's Book.

Thanks to the Separation-Individuation stage of child development, explained here, parents of teens will be humiliated if they tried to Design the Self-Concept™ in the manner described in Petunia's Book. Your teen is likely to look cynically at you and laugh. He is likely to reject the mental image of himself that you are trying to craft upon him.

Therefore, you have to craft a concept that is the opposite of what you want to see in your child. He will reject this image and embrace the opposite, which is the concept you actually want.


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