By Peg Streep — 2020
Looking at the collateral damage we rarely talk about.
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A lack of support splits parents into warring factions. Here’s what could stop the fighting.
“I just didn’t want them to stress and not be afraid to go to school. The less they knew, the better it was.”
Right around the start of the pandemic, my older daughter started making spell jars, collecting crystals and watching lunar phases with extreme fascination.
By focusing on our children’s strengths, we can help them flourish—and stop being so critical and worried.
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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.
The style of child-rearing that most aspire to takes a lot of time and money, and many families can’t pull it off.
As a marriage dissolves, some parents find themselves asking questions like, “Should we stay together for the kids?” Other parents find divorce is their only option.
It’s hard to see a child unhappy. Whether a child is crying over the death of a pet or the popping of a balloon, our instinct is to make it better, fast. That’s where too many parents get it wrong, says the psychologist Susan David, author of the book “Emotional Agility.
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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.
Too many kids show worrying signs of fragility from a very young age. Here’s what we can do about it.