Get ready, here’s another new parenting book – and another round of Do Parents Matter? Mom, dad, you know how the drill usually goes. The latest parenting expert tells how parents do too much, too little, both, not in the right way or otherwise mess up the health and well …
Earlier this week I questionedNew York Times columnist David Brook’s allegations. Basically parents spend too much time praising, improving and withholding love from their children. In case you missed his rant: There are two great defining features of child-rearing today. First, children are now praised to an unprecedented degree…Children are …
Hyper-parenting landed atop the New York Time’s Most Emailed this week. A Cure For Hyper-Parenting worked its way right past the chicken wings boomlet.The general, largely anecdotal parenting article comes from Pamela Druckerman, author of Bringing Up Bébé, now an authority on raising children. I agree with some of her ideas. And yet. There might …