| Sidonie Gruenberg | |
| Birth Date: | 1881 |
| Death Date: | 1974 |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Citizenship: | American |
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| Movement: | Child Study Association of America |
| Notableworks: | Your Child Today and Tomorrow |
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| Spouse: | Benjamin Gruenberg |
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Sidonie Matsner Gruenberg (1881–1974) was a parenting expert, writer, and director of the Child Study Association of America.[1] [2]
In her 1912 book Your Child Today and Tomorrow, Gruenberg popularized the idea of giving an allowance to children so they could understand how to spend it.[3]
Sidonie Gruenberg was born in Austria and educated in Germany and New York City.[1] She married Benjamin Gruenberg, a biology teacher, in 1903, and had four children between 1907–1915: Herbert, Richard, Hilda, and Ernest.[4]
In her parenting books, she said that children do not have any moral actions, so parents should permit actions to help them grow in their individual expression.[3] Gruenberg rejected what she saw as "arbitrary puritanism" in American parenting, saying that strict parents suggest "every desire and impulse of being Satanic."[3] On behalf of Macy's, she lectured at an exposition on "why children should have toys" in 1928.[5]