Being a parent can be the greatest thing ever — and one of the hardest. One of the harder tasks of parenting, at least for me, is figuring out the line between exerting parental control and letting ...
Parents should not feel pressured to make their young children undertake structured learning or achieve specific tasks, particularly during lockdown. A new study of children under the age of two has ...
Helicoptering, gentle parenting, curling dads, French parenting . . . The internet is full of magical "new" ways of raising happier, better-behaved kids. Why is the world full of confused, anxious ...
Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwire - Sep 21, 2012) - From Sunday 30 September 2012 international experts will gather in Helsinki, Finland, to examine the human right of children to make their ...
What do we mean by autonomy? The dictionary defines autonomy as being “self-governing, independent.” In biology, it means to exist as an “independent organism and not as a mere form or state of ...
Parents are much less likely to intervene when their young children are getting dressed or performing other simple chores if those tasks are framed as learning opportunities, according to a new study ...
The studio audience showered me with hisses, “nuh-uh’s,” and boos as I answered questions about my parenting. I was on an episode of a nationally syndicated talk show that aired on March 3, 2020, just ...