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businessinsider.com December 29, 2017
A former Stanford dean reveals 7 ways parents can raise successful kids

Julie Lythcott-Haims is the opposite of a helicopter parent. She has built a career on encouraging parents to take a more hands-off approach, favoring tough love instead of protecting kids from the big, scary world.
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cnn.com December 29, 2017
8 resolutions for better parenting in the New Year

Go Ask Your Dad is parenting advice with a philosophical bent as one dad explores what we want out of life, for ourselves and our children, through useful paradigms and best practices. Share your insight at the CNN Parenting Facebook page.
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offspring.lifehacker.com January 4, 2018
'Ask a Clean Person for Parents' Wants More of Your Messiest Questions

Ask a Clean Person for Parents, our cleaning column focusing on parenting and all the messes it brings, has tackled everything from removing those oily stains left by sticky hand toys (pineapple juice! who knew?) to getting rid of the fart smell in your teenager’s room (no, you don’t have to mov
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theguardian.com January 3, 2018
Black Mirror shows who’s really losing their minds in the digital age – parents

In Arkangel, directed by Jodie Foster, helicopter parenting spirals into obsessive hyper-surveillance. Are we wrong to think children are most at risk from technology? ‘Digital native” is a necessary but insufficient descriptor for the people who were born after the internet.
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vanityfair.com January 2, 2018
Why Logan Paul Should Really Worry Us

On the last day of the year, a great disturbance rippled through the Internet. Well, a certain part of the Internet: the section that pays attention to the exploits of brash YouTube celebrities like Logan Paul, a 22-year-old mega-vlogger who has the attention of some 15 million subscribers.
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offspring.lifehacker.com December 20, 2017
The Best Parenting Stories of 2017

We tested the plastic butt straw. We figured out how to avoid the diaper-change urine stream. We learned Snapchat. Parenting is hard work, but we tried to make it a little bit easier. Here are our best parenting stories of 2017.
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theatlantic.com December 29, 2017
Black Mirror: 'Arkangel' Mines the Horror of Helicopter Parenting

Directed by Jodie Foster, the second episode of Season 4 taps into the anxieties of raising children. Sophie Gilbert and David Sims will be discussing the new season of Netflix’s Black Mirror, considering alternate episodes.
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offspring.lifehacker.com January 5, 2018
Why You Should Let Kids Fight

There’s a lot for kids to fight about—the last dino nugget, who’s taller, who gets to be Juniper’s BFF of the Week.
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npr.org January 3, 2018
5 Things To Know About Screen Time Right Now

After another round of holidays, it's safe to assume, a lot of children have been diving into media more than usual. They may have received new electronic toys and gadgets or downloaded new apps and games. Managing all that bleeping and buzzing activity causes anxiety in many parents.
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dallasnews.com August 30, 2017
Lawnmower parents are raising a generation of kids who struggle with adversity

I am a scientist, and when I first found out my wife was having a baby, I did what any scientist would do. I researched. I read every parenting and baby book I could get my hands on, and what I've realized is that there are a lot of experts who tell you to do completely different things.
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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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nytimes.com October 29, 2017
Motherhood Isn’t Sacrifice, It’s Selfishness

I was taking a few weeks’ break from work over the summer. My family and I — my husband and my sons, then 9 and 7 — planned to spend the time at our house on the New Jersey shore.
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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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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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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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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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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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salon.com June 3, 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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inc.com November 22, 2017
Science Says These 10 Things Will Help You Raise Extremely Smart and Successful Kids

What parent doesn't want their child to do well in school, stay out of trouble, and grow up to be a highly successful adult? But as I've found over the years raising my own daughter, that's far easier said than done.
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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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forbes.com September 18, 2017
13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do

Raising mentally strong kids who are equipped to take on real-world challenges requires parents to give up the unhealthy — yet popular — parenting practices that are robbing kids of mental strength.
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offspring.lifehacker.com November 8, 2017
What to Do When You and Your Partner Have Clashing Parenting Styles

Relationships are hard. Parenting is hard. Combine those two and you’re in for some bumps in the road large enough to rival those rutted rainforest paths that break your axle and pop your tires. No two people can agree on everything.
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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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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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nytimes.com October 27, 2017
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 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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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 October 29, 2017
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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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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time.com
Millennial Parents Cover Story: This Generation Is Different

You can get unlimited access for only $2.99/month.
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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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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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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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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? In a family home in picture-pretty Oxfordshire, four women and seven toddlers are, respectively, drinking tea and causing chaos.
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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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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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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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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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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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dailycrackle.com September 23, 2016
What a Stanford Dean Says Parents are Doing That’s Ruining Their Kids

This week, I sat in an auditorium with a couple hundred other parents at my daughter’s high school to hear what author and former freshman dean of Stanford University, Julie Lythcott-Haims, had to say about an epidemic of “over parenting” and the ways that this trend is influencing an entir
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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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faithit.com March 16, 2017
Dad Devises Genius “X-Plan” That Could Save Your Teen from a Dangerous Situation

X marks the spot! This Dad devised a genius 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.
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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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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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nytimes.com October 27, 2017
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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news.ycombinator.com December 3, 2017
Taking Children Seriously : Hacker News

But the "rules are bad" trope is, unfortunately, a trend in The Netherlands. Parents that live by this rule are sacrificing themselves. It's bad parenting. I see a lot of parents (mothers mostly) in public places desperately trying to explain their dissatisfaction to their misbehaving children.
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artofmanliness.com June 28, 2017
23 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do

Even though the modern world isn’t any more dangerous than it was thirty or forty years ago, it feels like a more perilous place.
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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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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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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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offspring.lifehacker.com August 25, 2017
It's Time to Admit That the "Family Day Out" Is Really Not That Fun

I would tell myself this every Saturday as I’d sit in the car with my husband and then-toddler, heading to whatever outing we had planned—the aquarium, local fair, or maybe a theme park.
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lifehacker.com March 31, 2016
Correct a Child's Behavior Without Punishment By Focusing on These Three Things

Many parents dole out punishment when their children do something bad, but Alan Kazdin, director of the Yale Parenting Center, says that even gentle punishments like time outs don’t work.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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yourot.com December 4, 2017
The silent tragedy affecting today’s children

How much more evidence do we need before we wake up? No, “increased diagnostics alone” is not the answer! No, “they all are just born like this” is not the answer! No, “it is all the school system’s fault” is not the answer! Yes, as painful as it can be to admit, in many cases, WE, pa
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com April 10, 2013
The Power of Talking to Your Baby

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. The gap between poor children and wealthier ones widens each year, and by high school it has become a chasm.
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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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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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inc.com October 7, 2016
Everything Science Has Recently Learned About Raising Happy, Successful Kids

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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aeon.co July 10, 2017
Praise them!

When I took my son to visit my parents in South Carolina six months ago, my father yelled out ‘Good job!’ after I finished rinsing some dishes one night.
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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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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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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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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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nytimes.com October 28, 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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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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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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businessinsider.com September 6, 2017
A top psychologist shares his 3-step method parents can take to discipline their kids

Ross Greene wants to make life easier. In his most recent book, "Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child," Greene outlines a three-step process parents can take to exert that influence in the most productive way possible.
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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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