We won’t find much about pedagogy in Jung’s writings. He believed that the most important factor in raising children is the atmosphere at home, not what is said to them or what is done with them. A parent’s most important task was to be a healthy, happy person, thereby creating a healthy, positive atmosphere around themselves. Children don’t listen to what their parents say to them anyway—they respond to what is unseen, because they are much more closely connected to the unconscious than adults are.
Meanwhile, mothers in particular tend to ignore their natural feelings and reactions and succumb to external beliefs about how children should be raised. It is usually not society but their own negative inner voice that speaks to them in this critical tone.
J.W.
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