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Therein lies the problem: Gentle parenting is proving to be too hard on many parents. In recent months, parents and experts have started to express doubts about the parenting style’s sustainability.
Zeltser says parents today might think of this kind of parenting style as typical for their parents or grandparents' generations. "It's like the 'my way or the highway' mentality," she explains.
With many schools closed for the year, a problem on the horizon for many working parents is planning for summer and uncertainty about whether camps and other summer activities will be open or ...
Father and children reading. According to a literature review by Christopher Spera (2005), Darling and Steinberg (1993) suggest that it is important to better understand the differences between parenting styles and parenting practices: "Parenting practices are defined as specific behaviors that parents use to socialize their children", while parenting style is "the emotional climate in which ...
Sears states that in attachment families, parents and children practice a highly developed and sophisticated type of communication that makes it unnecessary for parents to use practices such as scolding; often, all it takes is a mere frown. He is convinced that children who trust their parents are cooperative and don't resist parental guidance ...
The stereotype is a Chinese mother who relentlessly drives her child to study hard, without regard for the child's social and emotional development. The notion of a "tiger parent" is analogous to other authoritarian parenting stereotypes, such as the American stage mother, the Japanese kyōiku mama, and the Jewish mother.
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An extension of his championship of the "ordinary good mother...the devoted mother", [2] the idea of the good enough mother was designed to defend the ordinary mother and father against what Winnicott saw as the growing threat of intrusion into the family from professional expertise, and to offset the dangers of idealisation built into Kleinian ...