ABSTRACT
If parents learn to consider both sides of the human personality, and if they learn to work for an equilibrium between the different parts of the personality, their behaviour will, we hope, take on a very different nature. They will no longer be content with an overall attitude of, for instance, permissiveness to the drives instead of the overall attitude of intolerance towards the child's drives. Both attitudes are equally detrimental to the child. Parents train their children for cleanliness very much later than they used to do, so as to give the childish personality more scope for development before the restrictive tendencies set in as a result of the prohibitions put on the satisfaction of the anal drives. Curiosity, if deflected from the sexual problems, becomes one of the greatest assets of the child all through childhood. Similarly, the severe repression of exhibitionism in a child's life is such a pity.
