We live in a difficult time for raising of children. While many are giving up on the idea of having children, a number dare to make that decision, but perhaps precisely because they are not aware of the necessary responsibility to properly shape their children. The temptations of this time are so great that future generations must be raised in advance to become true heroes in order to overcome the impending temptations or they will fall as their safe victims if they are not trained to defeat them. Due to their mere indifference to this issue, many parents will completely unintentionally form future hedonists, incapable of responsible studying and employment, of orderly married life, perhaps alcoholics and drug addicts, and perhaps even criminals and wicked ones. But whoever truly loves their children must be aware of the temptations of this time, the external influences that go on to ruin a child, and the personal responsibility of everything a parent can do for their child to form a mature, self-aware personality, capable of caring independently for himself, to live for other people and to serve the common good and humanity. The book "Child Care of the Last Generation" was written to encourage parents in such a noble and daring endeavor as raising a generation that may live in a time "such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be" (Matthew 24:21). The book explains developmental stages of human personality from infancy to late years with a critique of popular modern delusions about raising children from the perspective of the epoch of the Reformation (16th - 19th centuries), supported by contemporary scientific researches.The book reveals that the unfinished developmental stages from childhood are "waiting" whole life for a man to finally overcome them, in order to become a self-aware personality. The book analyzes the tragic consequences of premature sexual awakening, the damaging effects of daily dopamine-inducing by video games and music abuse, analyzes the abuse of tablets to relieve a person of her responsibility in the fight against ADHD, reveals the formation of immaturity of personality in the case of gratification of psychological needs for feelings of being loved and worth, and reconsiders the idea of the absolute harm of corporal punishment. The book exposes common temptation of the religious upbringing of children - the manipulation by guilt, vanity and sentiment, and explains how guilt forms suspicious and condemning tendencies, pride - offensive and violent personalities, and sentiment - emotionally vulnerable and unstable personalities.Here are some thoughts from the book: "If under the influence of proper upbringing the child does not develop the willpower to listen to the authority of parents, he will not also have the power of the will to listen to the authority of his own reason when he later acquires it.""Unfortunately, parents often tame their children by indulging their weaknesses when they are obedient to them, and by thwarting them when they are disobedient, instead of leading them to overcome their weaknesses at the root. By proper upbringing, parents develop the will of their children, while by taming they develop not their will, but the weaknesses of the character which govern the child's will, the weaknesses out of which such children are obedient to their parents. In this case, these are the weaknesses of selfish sentiment, guilt, and pride.""Parents who are immature personalities can hardly rear children to become mature, because taking the responsibility on themselves is to them often so unpleasant stress that they even want to preserve their children from their personality's maturation as some kind of a very unpleasant stress. They think that the expression of love for children is to liberate them from life responsibilities..."
