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 …
I’m worried about whether parenting are worrying too much. I’d love to worry more about it today but I have my own bloated parenting schedule. As much as I’d love to do a longer post on the matter of futile or otherwise unnecessary parental stress my kids are off school yet again …
Know a good parent? Forget the mom who makes the circus animal cupcakes or gladly drives her kid and 5 others or who just got another kid into a gifted and talented slot. Think of the mom or dad with the children you’d welcome into your home any time with or without a chaperon or a runny nose. You can thank our friend psychologist Barbara Boucher, Ph.D., for starting …
Grab the November issue of The New Yorker and thumb to The Child Trap: The Rise of Overparenting by Joan Acocella. It’s a good look at the recent parenting phenomenon – you know, spoiling (toys, few rules, too many birthday parties) combined with parental anxiety (are formula, tv, baby, germs, …