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IT may well be that enthusiasm on the part of the parents is a more essential condition than are any material circumstances for carrying out ‘self-regulation’ in the family successfully. Nevertheless, the success of this procedure can be adequately assessed only from studies made by independent psychological observers of a fair sample of such families and of the personal and social adjustment of the children.
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VERNON, M. “Self-Regulation for Children”. Nature 186, 912 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/186912a0
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