Tag: parenting
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Moms Soothing
Read more: Moms SoothingGuess you don’t know for absolutely sure until you study it: Mother’s Voice Calms Stress. Once stressed, one third of the girls were comforted in person by their mothers – specifically with hugs, an arm around the shoulders and the like. One third were left to watch an emotionally neutral 75-minute video. The rest were…
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T.V. for Toddlers
Read more: T.V. for ToddlersToo much T.V. for toddlers leads to problems later, says a Canadian study. Maybe no surprise, but still… [E]ach hour of extra TV exposure in early childhood was associated with a range of issues by the fourth grade…[T]hose with more TV exposure participated less in class and had lower math grades. They suffered about 10…
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“My Kid Wouldn’t Do That”
Read more: “My Kid Wouldn’t Do That”A study shows parents tend to have a skewed views of their teen’s behavior. “Parents…had a very hard time thinking about their own teen children as sexually desiring subjects…At the same time…parents view their teens’ peers as highly sexual, even sexually predatory.”
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Parental Estrangement
Read more: Parental EstrangementTara Parker-Pope looks at a “silent epidemic“–children who refuse all contact with their parents. “It’s possible for a parent to feel like they were doing something out of love,” he said, “but it didn’t feel like love to that child.” Friends, other family members and therapists can often help a parent cope with the loss…
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Human Being v. Human Doing
Read more: Human Being v. Human DoingJim Taylor, PhD asks, Are you raising a human being or a human doing? Having internalized their perceptions of being a human doing from their parents, children come to love themselves only when they are successful and experience nothing less than self-loathing when they fail. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Po Bronson sounded the alarm about…