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The Fragile Generation

By Lenore Skenazy, Jonathan Haidt — 2017

Bad policy and paranoid parenting are making kids too safe to succeed.

Read on reason.com

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How to Be a Strength-Based Parent

By focusing on our children’s strengths, we can help them flourish—and stop being so critical and worried.

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Lea Waters
2018
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The Burnout We Can’t Talk About: Parent Burnout

New research demonstrates parental burnout has serious consequences. As defined by the study, burnout is an exhaustion syndrome, characterized by feeling overwhelmed, physical and emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from one’s children, and a sense of being an ineffective parent.

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Robyn Koslowitz Ph.D.
2019
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‘Intensive’ Parenting Is Now the Norm in America

The style of child-rearing that most aspire to takes a lot of time and money, and many families can’t pull it off.

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Joe Pinsker
2019
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4 Big Emotions to Talk About With Little Kids

The different ways your child behaves actually stems from a list of four complex emotions. Here’s how explain them to your child in a way they’ll understand so they can learn to manage them.

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Jenna Autuori Dedic
2020
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Managing Your Own Emotions: The Key to Positive, Effective Parenting

Wander any playground or mall, and at some point you are likely to observe a parent coaching her child to take deep breaths in and out to calm herself, or directing her to “use her words” versus hitting, kicking or grabbing.

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Claire Lerner
2016
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Emotion Coaching: Helping Kids Cope with Negative Feelings

Emotion coaching is the practice of talking with children about their feelings, and offering kids strategies for coping with emotionally difficult situations. The goal is to empathize, reassure, and teach. Does it make a difference? Yes.

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Gwen Dewar
2018
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Attachment Parenting

Attachment parenting has recently become a catchphrase for bonding with children. But there’s a lot more to it than babywearing and breastfeeding

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Teresa Pitman
2010
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The Importance of Touch with Teen Children

Claire Arnold looks at the importance of maintaining physical and emotional connections with older children.

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Claire Arnold
2019
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Dan Harris: The First Time I Rushed My Son to the E.R.

No amount of meditation will allow me to unhear the sickening thud of my toddler’s head as it made impact with the edge of our wooden coffee table.

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Dan Harris
2017
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The Drama of the Gifted Child

The wisdom that Alice Miller shares with us in her famous book, The Drama of the Gifted Child, is something that every therapist who works with children revisits more often than we would like.

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Marilyn Wedge
2012
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Helping Children Deal with Emotions