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racheous.com July 24, 2017
Parenting Respectfully When Triggered

Disclaimer: I’m using the word triggered to describe the process of an experience/feeling that a child has that triggers a response in us as parents. As someone with depression and an anxiety disorder, I’m aware it can have other meanings regarding trauma and mental health.
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spurgeon.org July 25, 2017
12 Spurgeon Quotes for When Parenting Feels Hard

Susannah Thompson didn’t marry Charles Spurgeon for his wealth, class, clothing, or appearance. In fact, the country preacher’s “long, badly-trimmed hair” amused her. Nor did Susannah marry Charles because he had polite manners, power in the pulpit, or eloquence of any kind.
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theconversation.com July 19, 2017
Helicopter or lawnmower? Modern parenting styles can get in the way of raising well-balanced children

When many middle-aged people think back to their childhood, they remember roaming the streets with their friends during long, hot summers. Our parents threw us out the door in the morning and instructed us not to come back until dinnertime.
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medium.com July 19, 2017
Where I Am Supposed to Be—The Parenting vs Entrepreneurship Struggle

It’s 4:58 PM on a Tuesday. A glance at the sticky note that compiles my to-do list for the day elicits an audible sigh that feels like defeat. Too many tasks now have to be bumped to tomorrow.
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treehugger.com July 24, 2017
'The Idle Parent' is the most unconventional parenting book I've ever read

In an odd marriage of attachment and free-range parenting philosophies, the book advocates for responsible laziness on the part of adults. There is something delightful about the term 'idle parenting.' For someone caught up in the chaos of raising little children, it sounds like an oxymoron.
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offspring.lifehacker.com July 25, 2017
Should Divorced Parents Spend Time Together for Their Kids' Sake?

On Slate’s parenting podcast “Mom and Dad Are Fighting,” the hosts debated a tough question: After a divorce, should you spend time together as a family if a child requests it?
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businessinsider.com July 19, 2017
Americans are having less sex — and helicopter parenting is partly to blame

Compared to the early 1990s, Americans in 2014 had sex nine fewer times per year, on average, new survey data show.
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billmoyers.com July 21, 2017
How to Talk to Children About Donald Trump

The US president's behavior is often at odds with the values we are working to instill in our children. So how do we explain Trump to our kids? In her new book, How Do I Explain This to My Kids: Parenting in the Age of Trump, child psychologist Dr.
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theguardian.com July 25, 2017
Why there’s no such thing as a gifted child

Even Einstein was unexceptional in his youth. Now a new book questions our fixation with IQ and says adults can help almost any child become gifted When Maryam Mirzakhani died at the tragically early age of 40 this month, the news stories talked of her as a genius.
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cupofjo.com July 24, 2017
16 Surprising Things About Parenting in Guatemala

Next up in our Motherhood Around the World series is Michelle Acker Perez who lives in the small city of Antigua, Guatemala.
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vox.com July 4, 2017
Most parenting advice is worthless. So here's some parenting advice.

I am the father of two boys, Griffin (13) and Huck (11). They are awesome: bright, curious, funny, and kindhearted. Like any parent, I would love to believe that my awesome kids are a result of my awesome parenting. Sadly, expert opinion indicates it ain't so. Genes have an enormous influence.
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washingtonpost.com November 9, 2015
Why it’s good to have a strong-willed child, and why you should let up on them

“I will not cut my hair. Never. The answer is never, Mom, and the answer will always be never, so you should just stop asking me.” He said it without attitude, in a matter-of-fact way, as though he were simply reporting on the weather or time of day.
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artofmanliness.com April 3, 2017
The Origins of Overprotective Parenting

Back when I was six years old, the neighborhood I lived in provided the perfect backdrop for an active and idyllic childhood. Half a dozen other boys about my age lived on the same street I did and we quickly banded together to form a little neighborhood gang.
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lifehacker.com November 13, 2016
Parenting Showdown: “Let Kids Be Kids” vs. “Because I Said So.”

Whether or not you have kids, you probably have an opinion on parenting. Should moms and dads enforce rules strictly, whether their kids like it or not? Or is it more important to let kids enjoy themselves, even if that means bending the rules sometimes?
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lifehacker.com April 17, 2013
10 Things to Stop Saying to Your Kids (and What to Say Instead)

Current research shows that some of the most commonly used and seemingly positive phrases we use with kids are actually quite destructive.
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washingtonpost.com July 18, 2014
Are you raising nice kids? A Harvard psychologist gives 5 ways to raise them to be kind

Earlier this year, I wrote about teaching empathy, and whether you are a parent who does so. The idea behind it is from Richard Weissbourd, a Harvard psychologist with the graduate school of education, who runs the Making Caring Common project, aimed to help teach kids to be kind.
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salon.com June 4, 2014
The day I left my son in the car

The day it happened was no different from most; I was worried, and I was running late. I was worried because in a few hours’ time I was going to be enduring a two-and-a-half hour flight with my kids, ages 1 and 4.
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inc.com June 30, 2016
Want Your Kids to Be Successful and Happy? Research Recommends This Parenting Style

When it comes to folk wisdom on how to raise happy and successful kids, we all do the same thing. We look at the families around us and try to identify what's working, and what's not. Then we attempt to copy the good and avoid the bad.
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bakadesuyo.com November 6, 2016
New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent

Every parent asks it at some point: What is going on in my kid’s brain? And if you don’t understand kids it can be hard to give them what they need to thrive.
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nytimes.com August 24, 2014
Raising Successful Children

PHRASES like “tiger mom” and “helicopter parent” have made their way into everyday language. But does overparenting hurt, or help?
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nytimes.com March 17, 2015
Raising a Moral Child

What does it take to be a good parent? We know some of the tricks for teaching kids to become high achievers. For example, research suggests that when parents praise effort rather than ability, children develop a stronger work ethic and become more motivated.
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nytimes.com January 30, 2015
A Cure for Hyper-Parenting

PARIS — I recently spent the afternoon with some Norwegians who are making a documentary about French child-rearing. Why would people in one of the world’s most successful countries care how anyone else raises kids?
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washingtonpost.com October 16, 2015
Former Stanford dean explains why helicopter parenting is ruining a generation of children

Julie Lythcott-Haims noticed a disturbing trend during her decade as a dean of freshmen at Stanford University. Incoming students were brilliant and accomplished and virtually flawless, on paper. But with each year, more of them seemed incapable of taking care of themselves.
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qz.com June 8, 2015
Harvard researchers have mapped the five child-rearing techniques you need to raise kind kids

Ask parents how important it is to instill kindness in their kids, and most will rank it high: even as their very top priority, according to Harvard researchers.
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nytimes.com April 24, 2015
Love and Merit

There are two great defining features of child-rearing today. First, children are now praised to an unprecedented degree. As Dorothy Parker once joked, American children aren’t raised; they are incited. They are given food, shelter and applause. That’s a thousand times more true today.
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qz.com November 12, 2014
How baby boomers ruined parenting forever

About 25 years ago, when the era of irrational exuberance allowed enough disposable income for irrational anxiety, the concept of “helicopter parenting” arose. A “helicopter parent” micromanages every aspect of his child’s routine and behavior.
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slate.com April 10, 2013
No Big Deal, but This Researcher’s Theory Explains Everything About How Americans Parent

New parenthood is a desperate search for certainty: When you start knowing nothing, you are desperate to know something. And when you finally figure that something out—how to get this creature to eat or sleep—that becomes the answer.
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theconversation.com September 25, 2014
‘Gentle parenting’ explainer: no rewards, no punishments, no misbehaving kids

In a piece in The Conversation, Bernadette Saunders described positive discipline. Parents who practise positive discipline or gentle parenting use neither rewards nor punishments to encourage their children to behave.
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time.com
Millennial Parents Cover Story: This Generation Is Different

You can get unlimited access for only $2.99/month.
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wsj.com November 21, 2016
Research Finds Parenting Style Affects Children in Unexpected Ways

Is your parenting style making your child sick? A growing body of research is finding that the way parents relate to their children affects more than their mental and emotional health. It also has an impact on their physical well-being.
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theatlantic.com September 23, 2016
Abandon Parenting, and Just Be a Parent

In her new book, The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik offers up a more organic approach to raising children. Could a 4-year-old possess better instincts for scientific discovery than a college student?
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inc.com October 7, 2016
8 New Scientific Studies That Will Make You a Better Parent

Being a parent is an experience as old as the human race. Being a parent in a plugged-in world of intensifying work-life pressures, increasing economic and political uncertainty, and endless "mommy wars"? That's a whole different story.
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lifehacker.com July 11, 2014
How to Keep Your Cool as a Parent

What parent hasn't lost their temper when a kid misbehaves? Of course a parent who hasn't lost their cool from time to time is a rarer than a unicorn, but losing your temper and yelling can be ineffective parenting. It's better for everyone if you keep your cool.
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lifehacker.com January 14, 2014
How to Stay Productive While Caring for a New Baby

When my wife and I became first-time parents recently, we made a decision to split up child-rearing responsibilities throughout the week.
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lifehacker.com May 26, 2016
Why You Shouldn't Worry So Much About Being a 'Perfect' Mother

Even armed with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, I remember the frightening first moments after bringing my newborn daughter home from the hospital. I wasn’t sure what to do–and not at all confident that I was capable of being the parent she needed me to be.
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well.blogs.nytimes.com March 14, 2016
Some Babies Are Just Easier Than Others

Dr. Perri Klass on family health. Welcome to Well Family, Well’s new home for news about parenting, child health and relationships plus advice from our experts to help every family live well.
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nymag.com July 4, 2010
All Joy and No Fun

Why parents hate parenting. There was a day a few weeks ago when I found my 2½-year-old son sitting on our building doorstep, waiting for me to come home.
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huffingtonpost.com May 7, 2013
Have American Parents Got It All Backwards?

The eager new mom offering her insouciant toddler an array of carefully-arranged healthy snacks from an ice cube tray? That was me.
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faithit.com March 16, 2017
Dad Devises Genius “X-Plan” That Could Save Your Teen from a Dangerous Situation

As a parent, we never stop worrying about our children. The day they’re born we count all 10 fingers and all 10 toes, and then we count them over again. It’s in our nature to protect the little humans we gave life to. Of course, that cycle continues as they grow up.
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businessinsider.com May 25, 2016
Science says parents of unsuccessful kids could have these 9 things in common

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world. There are so many things that can affect a child's success, including socioeconomic status, the environment they live in, and their parents’ education level.
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ideas.ted.com July 15, 2014
How cultures around the world think about parenting

What can American parents learn from how other cultures look at parenting? A look at child-rearing ideas in Japan, Norway, Spain — and beyond.
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theguardian.com July 30, 2016
Attachment parenting: the best way to raise a child – or maternal masochism?

It’s the increasingly fashionable approach, with an emphasis on baby-wearing, co-sleeping and long-term breastfeeding. But does it make for happier, better children? It’s the increasingly fashionable approach, with an emphasis on baby-wearing, co-sleeping and long-term breastfeeding.
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nytimes.com January 1, 2016
A Childless Bystander’s Baffled Hymn

MODERN parenting confuses me. The vocabulary, for starters. Take the word “last.” Usually it means final. Last exit: there are none beyond it. Last rites: you’re toast.
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salon.com July 3, 2016
Parenting as an expat: The Dutch taught me how to loosen up and give my kids some much-needed freedom

Topics: Children, dutch, Editor's Picks, expat, Parenting, The Netherlands, UNICEF, Life News
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picklebums.com July 10, 2014
25 Alternatives to “Good Job”

Last week I shared some thoughts on praise and manipulation. In that post I shared some brutal truths about how I parent, and some ideas about how I would like to parent.
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telegraph.co.uk August 21, 2016
When it comes to parenting, be a 'gardener’, not a 'carpenter’

If permission to stop parenting sounds like the solution to surviving the rest of the summer holidays, then Alison Gopnik is your saviour. The US psychology professor and grandmother of three thinks too much “parenting” risks ruining your relationship with your children.
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economist.com July 23, 2014
Why Swedish men take so much paternity leave

ALONG with its Nordic neighbours, Sweden features near the top of most gender-equality rankings. The World Economic Forum rates it as having one of the narrowest gender gaps in the world. But Sweden is not only a good place to be a woman: it also appears to be an idyll for new dads.
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qz.com October 16, 2016
This is what work-life balance looks like at a company with 100% retention of moms

When Phil Graves, a father of three young girls, worked for Deloitte, his days looked a lot like those of many working professionals. He left before the kids were up to commute to work in San Francisco.
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huffingtonpost.com July 17, 2013
Latest Parenting Trend: The CTFD Method

I know many people want to stay current with the latest parenting trends -- attachment parenting, minimalist parenting, Tiger Mother parenting, et al. Well, I've stumbled upon a new technique that will guarantee your child grows up to be an exemplary student and citizen.
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lifehacker.com October 25, 2013
How to Stay Calm and Not Yell at Your Kids (Even If You're Really Mad)

Ever tried to control your reaction when you were really, really mad? Having good intentions is one thing—reality is quite another. You can think all you want that the next time your kids provoke you, you will not react angrily no matter how mad you are.
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lifehacker.com January 15, 2015
How to Get Rid of 'Mommy Guilt' (or Daddy Guilt) Once and For All

The moment your new baby comes into your arms, a whole new set of emotions rushes in—pride, joy, wonderment, fear, and, yes, guilt. Because everything you do or don't do as a guardian of this child is all your fault forevermore. That's what it feels like anyway, sometimes, as a parent.
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psychologytoday.com March 8, 2012
Why French Kids Don't Have ADHD

In the United States, at least 9 percent of school-aged children have been diagnosed with ADHD, and are taking pharmaceutical medications. In France, the percentage of kids diagnosed and medicated for ADHD is less than .5 percent. How has the epidemic of ADHD—firmly established in the U.S.
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lifehacker.com November 25, 2013
End Your Kids' Nagging and Negotiating with Three Simple Words

When kids want something, they'll ask..and ask...and ask until you cave in. You can teach them to unlearn this annoying negotiation tactic by saying just three words: "Asked and Answered." The concept is simple.
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lifehacker.com August 3, 2013
Top 10 Parenting Hacks

Parenting: possibly the toughest job in the world with no right way to do it. Nevertheless, through years of making babies we, as a society, have figured out a few tips and tricks. Here are our 10 best parenting hacks.
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lifehacker.com September 5, 2016
25 Popular Parenting Life Hacks Put to the Test

Raising children is a lot of work, so who can blame parents that look for tips and tricks to make it all a little easier? Sadly, not all life hacks are as useful as they seem. Here’s what happens when 25 of the most popular parenting hacks are attempted.
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nytimes.com September 13, 2016
Memo to Parents: Back Off, and Children Learn More

THE GARDENER AND THE CARPENTERWhat the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and ChildrenBy Alison Gopnik302 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26.
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magicalchildhood.wordpress.com August 31, 2010
What Should a 4 Year Old Know?

That every child learns to walk, talk, read and do algebra at his own pace and that it will have no bearing on how well he walks, talks, reads or does algebra. That the single biggest predictor of high academic achievement and high ACT scores is reading to children.
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artofmanliness.com April 26, 2017
The 3 Keys to Balancing Safety and Risk in Raising Your Kids

In this series on overprotective parents, we’ve taken a nuanced look at the phenomenon’s origins, explored the question of whether the world is a more dangerous place now than it was several decades ago (it’s not), and delved into the risks that arise when we don’t allow children to do ri
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telegraph.co.uk August 15, 2014
Have Sweden’s permissive parents given birth to a generation of monsters?

My five-year-old is extravagantly furious at being thwarted. I have infringed her human rights by mildly suggesting that she turn off the television and put some clothes on. To which I reply, swift as Lady Macbeth’s dagger, “I never was your friend in the first place, darling.
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fatherly.com November 1, 2016
Raising Responsible Kids With ‘Duct Tape Parenting’ Author Vickie Hoelfe

Helicopter parents have been hovering for decades now. And since the first rotors started whirring, parenting coach Vicki Hoefle has been explaining why it’s harmful. There are apparently better ways to raise resilient, independent human beings who will successfully move out of your house.
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bigthink.com August 31, 2015
Here's a Helpful Infographic on the Many Risks of Helicopter Parenting

Below you'll find a nifty infographic produced by the folks at Yellowbrick detailing the consequences of everyone's favorite irritating childrearing trend: helicopter parenting.
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theatlantic.com April 15, 2013
Before I Forget: What Nobody Remembers About New Motherhood

Early one morning when my daughter Rosie was a few weeks old, I packed her up in a baby carrier and took her to the drugstore, which felt at the time like an ambitious outing. It had been a rough night, and she was now happily sleeping off her bender.
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slate.com July 26, 2016
Meet the Allens, the “Off-Grid” Family That Wants Your Support to Survive

The first thing the Allens, a British family of four, want you to know about them is that they are followers of something they call off-grid parenting.
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businessinsider.com October 10, 2015
26 scientific ways your childhood influences your success as an adult

A lot of what goes on when we're kids can affect how we behave as adults. Of course, no one can say for sure how to ensure that a happy child will be a successful adult.
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ww2.kqed.org June 9, 2015
What Overparenting Looks Like From a Stanford Dean’s Perspective

Excerpted from HOW TO RAISE AN ADULT: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims, published June 9, 2015 by Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright © 2015 by Julie Lythcott-Haims. All rights reserved. To What End?
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1843magazine.com July 13, 2017
High-pressure parenting

In 1997, a few months into my first year at university, I was seized by the conviction that I had made a terrible mistake.
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artofmanliness.com April 21, 2017
The Risks of NOT Letting Your Kids Do Risky Things

In the last installment of this series on the causes and effects of the modern trend towards overprotective parenting, we explored the evidence behind the biggest reason parents give for adopting this approach and abandoning the more “free range” method they were reared with themselves: that
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businessinsider.com November 25, 2015
Science says parents of successful kids have these 11 things in common

And while there isn't a set recipe for raising successful children, psychology research has pointed to a handful of factors that predict success.
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opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com April 10, 2013
The Power of Talking to Your Baby

Fixes looks at solutions to social problems and why they work. By the time a poor child is 1 year old, she has most likely already fallen behind middle-class children in her ability to talk, understand and learn.
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theguardian.com March 26, 2016
Stop fetishising parenting - you’re sucking all the joy out of it!

‘I think my child has been breastfed by another woman,” my friend Jennifer announces out of the blue in the middle of our kids’ play-date. Even for California, where we live, this is mind-bogglingly weird. For a start, Jennifer’s daughter Alice is two and a half.
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huffingtonpost.ca May 2, 2017
Helicopter Parents Are Raising Unemployable Children

Helicopter parents are in the news a lot these days. These are the parents who can't stop hovering around their kids. They practically wrap them in bubble wrap, creating a cohort of young adults who struggle to function in their jobs and in their lives.
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treehugger.com December 16, 2016
Video compares European and American parenting styles

One culture focuses on 'raising' kids, the other on protecting them. The video depicts the freedom given by European parents to their kids — letting them play outside unattended, riding their bikes to school, leaving babies outside to sleep, even on city streets.
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washingtonpost.com August 12, 2016
Sharpen your parenting skills with ‘What Great Parents Do’

Looking for advice on parenting but don’t want to wade through reams of studies? A new book offers help. In “What Great Parents Do: 75 Simple Strategies for Raising Kids Who Thrive,” Erica Reischer offers practical tips in an easy-to-read format.
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npr.org April 8, 2014
The Forgotten Childhood: Why Early Memories Fade

Francis Csedrik, who is 8 and lives in Washington, D.C., remembers a lot of events from when he was 4 or just a bit younger.
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marcandangel.com February 19, 2015
10 Proven Ways to Raise Smarter, Happier Children

Children have never been perfect at listening to their parents, but they have never failed to imitate them. When you ask parents what they want for their children, what are the most common replies? They want their children to be smart and happy, of course.
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mostwatchedtoday.com
Hard-Hitting Nature Valley Ad Shows The Terrifying Side Of Kids Addicted To Technology

Nature Valley Canada recently sat down three generations of families and asked them one simple question, “What did you like to do for fun as a kid?” Take a moment to see how they responded, then grab your kids and go rediscover the joy of nature. [NatureValleyCanada] [H/T:Adweek / Mashable]
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nytimes.com June 23, 2017
When Helicopter Parents Hover Even at Work

When the cameras start rolling Thursday night at Barclays Center, scene of the National Basketball Association draft, one of the biggest stories won’t be a player, but a parent: LaVar Ball, father of the U.C.L.A. phenom Lonzo Ball, who is projected to be among the top five picks.
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theweek.com November 22, 2016
The science of good parenting

Every parent asks it at some point: What is going on in my kid's brain? And if you don't understand kids it can be hard to give them what they need to thrive. Lately the trend has been helicopter parenting and trying to get them ready as soon as possible for an increasingly competitive world.
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theguardian.com September 16, 2016
I thought all you needed to be a good parent was to love your kids. I was wrong

My middle son tested all my parenting abilities, and they were found wanting. Ante-natal classes aren’t stigmatised, so why should parenting classes? My middle son tested all my parenting abilities, and they were found wanting.
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nytimes.com August 11, 2016
The ‘Stranger Things’ School of Parenting

When the middle-schoolers on the Netflix show “Stranger Things” ride their bikes through the woods around their small town, it’s a clear nod to “E.T.” But those scenes are also reminders of something else: unsupervised childhood.
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nymag.com October 20, 2016
Yes, There’s a Right Way to Discipline Your Kids

While there isn’t an instruction manual for dealing with teens (or kids or toddlers) when they do something wrong — as they’re wired to do — there is a decades-old body of research on the subject.
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telegraph.co.uk February 14, 2017
Idle parenting means happy children

An unhealthy dose of the work ethic is threatening to wreck childhood. Under a tyrannical work-obsessed government, years that should be devoted to play and joyful learning are being stifled by targets and tests.
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jezebel.com
The CTFD Method Is the Greatest of All Parenting Trends

I know many people want to stay current with the latest parenting trends—attachment parenting, minimalist parenting, Tiger Mother parenting, et al. Well, I’ve stumbled upon a new technique that will guarantee your child grows up to be an exemplary student and citizen.
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washingtonpost.com December 7, 2016
When every moment of childhood can be recorded and shared, what happens to childhood?

The boys in the YouTube videos always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice. Hold the Powerade bottle by its cap. Flip it into the air and– Max, who is 6, waves his arms.
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longreads.com April 1, 2015
The Answer Is Never

One time, when I was in my early twenties, I shared a hospital room with a mother of many. I had a skin infection that wouldn’t respond to oral medication, and the 50-something-year-old woman had severe, inexplicable hives. Our main topic of conversation revolved around neither of our ailments.
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lifehacker.com March 6, 2014
Two Sentences That Will Get Your Kids to Tell the Truth

All kids lie at some point or another, and we can't always tell when they're doing it (those little buggers). There are two things, however, you can say to your children to get them to be honest.
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faithit.com February 22, 2017
Quit Doing These 8 Things for Your Teen This Year if You Want to Raise an Adult

Don’t judge me if you happen to see my kids eating packaged Ritz crackers for school lunch. Don’t judge me if they’re on the sidelines of PE because they forgot their uniform.
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nytimes.com February 6, 2015
The Only Baby Book You’ll Ever Need

SOUTH PORTLAND, Me. — LIKE many parents, I have a particular book I like to give to friends when they announce they’re pregnant for the first time.
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qz.com January 25, 2014
The truth is: We’re all helicopter parents

Crazy parents? I could tell you stories. I’ve spent the better part of a decade helping to run one of the oldest, most successful, most notorious online parenting communities in the country, Park Slope Parents. Park Slope, Brooklyn is New York City’s baby-central.
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nytimes.com March 20, 2015
The Case for Free-Range Parenting

BETHESDA, Md. — ON her first morning in America, last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood — alone, without even telling my wife or me. Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8.
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businessinsider.com May 22, 2017
A family therapist says too many parents make the same mistake and end up with spoiled kids

Having kids of your own complicates the situation somewhat. You hate to see them upset, but you also hate being glared at. You're frustrated, but you also know that you'll be even more frustrated in the future if you give your kid exactly what they want when they want it.
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