“Parenting today is a wildly challenging, confusing job, far beyond anything most of us expected.” -Ron Taffel, Ph.D. This is how family therapist and child-rearing expert, Ron Taffel, begins his most recent book for parents, Childhood Unbound: Saving Our Kids’ Best Selves–Confident Parenting in a World of Change. What I love most about this […]
Lessons for Parents from the Tiger Mother
“This is a story about a mother, two daughters, and two dogs. This was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at raising kids than Western ones. But instead, it’s about a bitter clash of cultures, a fleeting taste of glory, and how I was humbled by a thirteen-year-old.” […]
The Wrong Kind of Praise
“Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Although this research about the perils of too much praise on children’s learning is not new, it is so important […]
Negative Parentlng of Infants and Toddlers Increases Aggression
Results of a new research study of more than 260 mothers and their children, followed from birth until first grade, were published by University of Minnesota this week. Before the study, researchers believed that the combination of the temperament of the infant and negative parenting, particularly in the toddler phase (think terrible two’s) would put […]
Being a Good Dad is Most Important to Men
Results from a new research study by Julia McQuillan, professor of sociology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-author of a paper soon to be published in the journal, Fathering, were announced last week. In a survey of 1000 American men who were either married or co-habiting, including both fathers and non-fathers, the men were […]
