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theatlantic.com May 21, 2019
End the Plague of Secret Parenting

I’m an economist. I love data and evidence. I love them so much that I write books about data-based parenting. When questions arise about how to support parents at work (for example, from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter), my first impulse is to endorse paid parental leave.
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news.rutgers.edu May 22, 2019
Reading With Toddlers Reduces Harsh Parenting, Enhances Child Behavior, Rutgers-Led Study Finds

People who regularly read with their toddlers are less likely to engage in harsh parenting and the children are less likely to be hyperactive or disruptive, a Rutgers-led study finds.
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newscientist.com May 22, 2019
The parenting myth: How kids are raised matters less than you think

DNA is more important to a child’s personality, exam results and future income than the way they are brought up – but that’s good news, says geneticist Robert Plomin By and Robert Plomin IT IS an age-old question: are we shaped more by nature or nurture? Robert Plomin, a geneticist at King’
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fatherly.com May 21, 2019
51 Moments of Parenting That Are Absolutely Terrible

Nothing can prepare you for being a parent. It’s tremendously gratifying and soul-nourishing but it’s also terrifying and exhausting and thankless and, more often than not, you feel like a scraped-out skin suit of a human being who has no energy to do anything let alone have hopes or dreams.
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slate.com May 24, 2019
Should I Tell My Daughter About Her Dyslexia?

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Email careandfeeding@slate.com or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. I have a very smart 8-year-old who was recently diagnosed with dyslexia and dysgraphia.
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outsideonline.com May 20, 2019
How Hilaree Nelson Navigates Risk and Parenting

I met Hillaree Nelson in 2012 when I was considering getting pregnant.
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slate.com May 22, 2019
I Do Most of the Child Care. How Do I Correct My Husband’s Parenting Mistakes?

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Email careandfeeding@slate.com or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. I am the mother of 8-month-old twins.
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fatherly.com May 20, 2019
The Terrible Parenting Advice Baby Boomers Need to Stop Telling Us

The Baby Boomers! They were real great at some things, like creating Viagra, the World Wide Web, and the automated external defibrillator.
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desiringgod.org May 18, 2019
God Loves Us More, When He Loves Us for His Glory

Some people feel less loved when they hear God loves them for his own sake. But in fact his love is greater for us when he loves us that way. 1. God loves us by predestining us for adoption into his family (Ephesians 1:5–6).
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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 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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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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vox.com June 17, 2018
Most parenting advice is worthless. So here's some parenting advice.

I am the father of two boys, Griffin (14) and Huck (12). 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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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 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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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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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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nytimes.com June 15, 2015
‘How to Raise an Adult,’ by Julie Lythcott-Haims

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission.
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meredisciple.com June 28, 2010
Top Ten Mistakes Christian Parents of Teens Make

It might be difficult for some parents to read through, but here’s a top ten list that I’ve been wanting to write for a while. Over the next several days I’ll be expanding on each of these in succession, but for now, here is my top ten mistakes Christian parents of teens make: 10.
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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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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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1843magazine.com February 27, 2018
Mother of invention

“Oh God, that is so horrible,” grimaces Maye Musk, as though I had pointed out vermin in her son Kimbal’s impeccable new restaurant. All I had done was to ask for her views on the current fashion for raw-food diets.
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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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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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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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theatlantic.com April 11, 2018
Are Helicopter Parents Ruining a Generation?

“Initially, helicopter parenting appears to work,” says Julie Lythcott-Haims, author of How to Raise an Adult. “As a kid, you're kept safe, you're given direction, and you might get a better grade because the parent is arguing with the teacher.
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slate.com December 2, 2013
Why Millennials Can’t Grow Up

Amy (not her real name) sat in my office and wiped her streaming tears on her sleeve, refusing the scratchy tissues I’d offered. “I’m thinking about just applying for a Ph.D. program after I graduate because I have no idea what I want to do.
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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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huffpost.com November 14, 2016
20 Things To Say To Your Child Instead Of "Don't Cry"

What if every time your child cries or tantrums, they are actually doing something highly worthwhile? We don't always appreciate it when our children begin to cry, but what they are actually doing is making use of the body's innate recovery system.
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nytimes.com August 4, 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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economist.com June 20, 2015
Friends, then benefits

BEAUTY opens many doors. Study after study has concluded that the comely earn more, are better liked, are treated more indulgently and are even given more lenient sentences in court than their plainer counterparts. The door it opens widest, though, is the romantic one.
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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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nytimes.com August 6, 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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nytimes.com April 3, 2015
No Kids for Me, Thanks

Chelsea Handler, the television host and best-selling author of “My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands,” and Geoff Dyer, the critically acclaimed British writer whose 15 books include “Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D. H.
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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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bakadesuyo.com November 6, 2016
New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You An Awesome Parent

Before we commence with the festivities, I wanted to thank everyone for helping my first book become a Wall Street Journal bestseller. To check it out, click here. Every parent asks it at some point: What is going on in my kid’s brain?
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businessinsider.com May 25, 2016
Science says parents of unsuccessful kids could have these 9 things in common

Developmental psychologist Diana Baumride found in the 1960s that there are basically three kinds of parenting styles: permissive, authoritarian, and authoritative. The ideal is authoritative— a parent who tries to direct the child rationally.
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fs.blog August 13, 2018
5 Mental Models to Remove (Some of) the Confusion from Parenting

Just a few days ago, I saw a three-year-old wandering around at 10:30 at night and wondered if he was lost or jet-lagged. The parent came over and explained that they believed in children setting their own sleep schedule. The problem with this approach is that it may work, or it may not.
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huffingtonpost.com April 13, 2016
Helicopter Parenting Has Given Birth To A Generation of Entitled Victims

Overparenting is widely recognized as a problematic approach to raising kids. For nearly a decade, studies have shown how the rise of the "helicopter parent" has been worsening children's anxiety and school performance in the K-12 years.
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washingtonpost.com September 3, 2015
How are you parenting wrong?

What ill-advised method of parenting have you embraced that is now ruining your kids for life? With so many fads, it is hard to keep it straight. A few options follow. HELICOPTER PARENTING: You hover frantically over your child at all times, shredding pigeons in your rotating blades.
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iflscience.com August 10, 2014
Why Do We Kiss?

In this great video from last year, Michael from Vsauce explains why we kiss.
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nytimes.com August 2, 2018
From Tokyo to Paris, Parents Tell Americans to Chill

In many countries, children have the very freedoms that American parents can grant only by chafing against law or custom, our international readers say.
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nytimes.com May 8, 2015
The Legacy of Etan Patz: Wary Children Who Became Watchful Parents

It is there in the quick steps of a woman hurrying up the street in Brooklyn, muttering to herself, “I’m a good parent, I’m a good parent.” She was regretting letting her son run home alone from a restaurant and was rushing to catch up with him.
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theatlantic.com October 11, 2012
The Real Problem With Helicopter Parents: There Aren't Enough of Them

Mocking obsessive parents is fun. But their excesses are small compared to the parenting failures in so many homes. Mocking obsessive parents is fun. But their excesses are small compared to the parenting failures in so many homes.
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mom.me January 8, 2016
10 Dark Parenting Truths We Never Talk About

Two newly expectant parents recently asked my husband and me for advice about becoming parents.
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artofmanliness.com June 12, 2014
You Don’t Have to Be Your Dad: How to Become Your Family’s Transitional Character

Throughout this year we’ve been running a series on how to father with intentionality and create a positive family culture. Whenever we’ve written on this topic, we invariably get comments from some men who have decided to opt out of the marriage and kids route altogether.
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nytimes.com October 12, 2014
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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kqed.org June 9, 2015
What Overparenting Looks Like From a Stanford Dean's Perspective

Did the safety-conscious, academic achievement-focused, self-esteem-promoting, checklisted childhood that has been commonplace since the mid-1980s and in many communities has become the norm, rob kids of the chance to develop into healthy adults? What will become of young adults who look accomplish
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businessinsider.com July 13, 2018
There are 4 styles of parenting, but one raises more successful kids than the rest, according to a psychotherapist

Raising kids in today's world is no easy task. From warnings about too much screen time and too many food additives, to the pressure to help your child succeed in school and on the sports field, parenting has become more challenging than ever.
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cracked.com April 12, 2014
5 Problems You Can't Blame on How You Were Raised

When my parents were raising me, there was one parenting style: Keep Your Child Alive. That was it.
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telegraph.co.uk February 13, 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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lifehacker.com November 16, 2017
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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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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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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mothermag.com April 8, 2015
Danish Parenting Tips

More so than making sure they end up being doctors, teachers, architects, etc., the things most parents wish most for their children is happiness.
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premium.wpmudev.org August 24, 2017
The Ultimate Guide to WordPress Multisite

Here at WPMU DEV, we’re more than a bit keen on WordPress Multisite. We’ve been developing plugins for Multisite since the old days when it was WordPress MU, and we use it to power Edublogs, a huge network of blogs for educators and students. Personally I also use Multisite a lot.
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theguardian.com January 16, 2018
The Diabolical Genius of the Baby Advice Industry

Every baffled new parent goes searching for answers in baby manuals. But what they really offer is the reassuring fantasy that life’s most difficult questions have one right answer.
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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 February 23, 2016
20 Things I Wish I Had Known Before Having Children

Before I had kids, I thought I knew everything there was to know about them. I did, after all, graduate from college with a degree in Family Science. During those college years, my life was filled with classes about human development, parenting, psychology, family dynamics, and marriage.
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mashable.com May 18, 2014
22 DIY Tricks to Make Parenting a Little Easier

Mom and Dad: Parenting is tough, we know. Raising children is a full-time job. On top of that, you still have to bring home the bacon and attempt to sneak in some television after the kids go to bed — if you can stay awake.
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psychologytoday.com October 16, 2018
How Narcissistic Parents Infantilize Kids

Treating an adult like a child, or infantilization, creates a cycle of dependence in which the adult constantly needs to be told what to do and how to do it.
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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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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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artofmanliness.com April 10, 2017
Is the World a More Dangerous Place for Kids Than It Used to Be?

Today’s parents are empirically less likely to allow kids to explore their neighborhood alone, walk to school, play by themselves, and handle potentially dangerous tools or weapons, and more likely to closely supervise all of their children’s activities, than parents even one generation ago.
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huffingtonpost.com September 11, 2018
5 Signs You Were Raised By Helicopter Parents

The term "helicopter parenting" is the same age as members of the millennial generation, which is telling.
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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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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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foreverymom.com March 28, 2016
9 Things Your Kids Need (But Won’t Tell You)

Not long after my first son was born, someone came up to me and said something that changed my perspective on parenting. “Enjoy every moment. The days are long but the years are short.” At the time, I was low on sleep and high on stress, and this wasn’t the time for one-liners.
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slate.com May 8, 2013
Poor Little Tiger Cub

When Amy Chua’s book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother came out in 2011, it sparked controversy among many people but especially psychologists and experts in child development.
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blog.hubspot.com October 14, 2014
100 Questions to Ask Yourself When Creating a Buyer Persona

Imagine that you’ve been invited to the birthday party of a distant cousin you haven’t seen in over a decade. You know her age, gender and what she does for a living, but not much more than that. With this information, how will you go about buying the perfect birthday present for her?
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telegraph.co.uk February 16, 2008
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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theconversation.com May 25, 2016
From tiger to free-range parents – what research says about pros and cons of popular parenting styles

Our politicians talk a lot about “families”, but what do they really mean when they use this term? What does a modern Australian family look like and how does it compare with ten, 20 or even 30 years ago?
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twocents.lifehacker.com May 12, 2014
How to Financially Prepare for Parenthood

Most moms and dads will tell you: parenthood is an ongoing learning experience. But it doesn't hurt to be as prepared for it as possible. Kids are adorable, but they're also expensive. Data shows that the average middle-income family will spend over $165,000 raising a child.
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washingtonpost.com February 4, 2014
Teaching empathy: What kind of parent are you?

Today’s parents are perpetually urged to monitor their children’s feelings, focus on the child and essentially make their children their entire focus. There’s a downside to this, argues Harvard psychologist Richard Weissbourd.
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huffingtonpost.com July 29, 2014
This Is What Sex-Positive Parenting Really Looks Like

It happened yet again. As I was sitting at the table for dinner with my children, I noticed my daughter's hand fishing around under her skirt. "We don't play with our vulvas at the table. Go wash your hands and finish your food," I scolded.
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nytimes.com November 7, 2014
Paternity Leave: The Rewards and the Remaining Stigma

Five months after Todd Bedrick’s daughter was born, he took some time off from his job as an accountant. The company he works for, Ernst & Young, offered paid paternity leave, and he decided to take six weeks — the maximum amount — when his wife, Sarah, went back to teaching.
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mensxp.com April 19, 2017
36 Magical Questions That Can Make Any Two People Fall In Love

Do you believe that two people can be made to fall in love with each other – any two people in this world? Arthur Aron, a psychology professor started a study on whether two people could decide to fall in love with each other.
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nbcnews.com June 26, 2018
How much risk is good for kids? Parents make the case for more adventurous childhoods

A backlash to overprotective parenting is answered with hammers and saws on an adventure playground — one element of the "free-range parenting" movement.
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blog.danlew.net November 19, 2014
Styling Views on Android (Without Going Crazy)

Styles are hard to get right on Android. There's a lot of potential for frustration. The hierarchy easily devolves into spaghetti code. How often have you wanted to change a style but feared you might break something unintentionally by doing so?
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nytimes.com April 18, 2018
How Harvey Karp Turned Baby Sleep Into Big Business

Harvey Karp, the pediatrician, parenting expert and inventor-slash-entrepreneur, cuts an unimposing figure. Lean and agile, with wispy dark hair, blue-rimmed glasses and a bounce in his step, Karp hugs like the Angeleno he has become and deadpans like the New Yorker he once was.
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nytimes.com April 11, 2014
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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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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huffingtonpost.com March 3, 2014
10 Common Mistakes Parents Today Make (Me Included)

When I became a mom, I got lots of advice on how to love my child. But not until a few years ago did someone actually point out that loving a child means wanting what's best for them long-term. When my four daughters were young, long-term didn't resonate with me.
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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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huffingtonpost.com March 3, 2015
I Don't Want Children -- Ever

I am about to tell you something that may shock you. Are you ready? Are you sitting down? Okay. Now let me be clear, it's not that I don't want children right now. It's not that I don't want children until after I'm married, or after I've paid off my student loan debt, or after I've bought a house.
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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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aeon.co January 14, 2018
We need a contract for co-parenting, not just for marriage

When I was in graduate school in the United States in the early 1980s, a member of our women’s support group informed us that she was pregnant. Although she was single and not in a serious relationship, she told us she intended to have the baby and raise it herself.
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huffpost.com July 21, 2015
10 Comics That Hilariously Sum Up Parenthood

When it comes to the ups and downs of parenting, sometimes you just have to laugh. That's why greeting card artist and dad of two Brian Gordon created Fowl Language Comics, a funny, sweet and often expletive-filled look at parenting.
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littleheartsbooks.com November 29, 2013
The Gift of a Strong-Willed Child

There are some children who are born into the world with the incredible life-gift of a strong will and an indomitable spirit.
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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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isha.sadhguru.org March 26, 2013
10 Good Parenting Tips to Help your Children Blossom

While it is true that there is no single definition or correct method of raising children, a few parenting tips could go a long way in ensuring the happiness of your child. Let’s take a look at 10 good parenting tips that Sadhguru has for us on raising kids.
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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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thebulletin.org February 25, 2015
What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?

Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles are believed to carry a total of approximately 1,000 strategic nuclear warheads that can hit the US less than 30 minutes after being launched.
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theguardian.com December 16, 2016
Are you too old to find success?

At what age are you too old to achieve breakthrough success in your field? That question fascinates so many people, I suspect, because almost nobody considers themselves already entirely successful.
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aeon.co July 10, 2018
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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healthland.time.com February 22, 2013
Hover No More: Helicopter Parents May Breed Depression and Incompetence in Their Children

Helicopter parents, stop hovering: it’s officially not good for your kids — especially if they’re already grown. A new study in the Journal of Child and Family Studies found that being overly involved in your grownup kids’ lives can do more harm than good.
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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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ahaparenting.com November 13, 2018
Change your child's behavior : without punishment!

“Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better?” - Jane Nelsen
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