Tag: parenting
-
How Not to Raise a Bully
Read more: How Not to Raise a BullyFrom Time.com: How Not to Raise a Bully. (In short: teach empathy.) Increasingly, neuroscientists, psychologists and educators believe that bullying and other kinds of violence can indeed be reduced by encouraging empathy at an early age. Over the past decade, research in empathy — the ability to put ourselves in another person’s shoes — has…
-
Family Time Increase
Read more: Family Time IncreaseFamily time is on the rise. Relayed by the NYT: Working parents perpetually agonize that they don’t see enough of their children. But a surprising new study finds that mothers and fathers alike are doing a better job than they think, spending far more time with their families than did parents of earlier generations.
-
Depressed Parenting
Read more: Depressed ParentingBeing a parent is difficult and demanding on the best of days. But, as the L.A. Times reports, when parents are depressed, it gets much tougher–and kids are the ones most affected. The fallout from parental depression doesn’t just go away. […] Children caught in the cold grip of a parent’s depression can carry patterns…