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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt III
Welcome to the third and final (?!) portion of this post considering Jennifer Senior’s article in last summer’s New York Magazine, All Joy and No Fun (Why Parents Hate Parenting), which describes modern parenting as almost if not totally lacking in … Continue reading →
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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt II
I began this odyssey with the simple assertion that Jennifer Senior’s article, All Joy and No Fun, in last summer’s New York Magazine casts a wan pallor over the nature of parenting, and moreover, that Senior’s un-fun version, although not the only … Continue reading →
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Tagged agreement, All Joy and No Fun, attachment parenting, building connection with children, children, controlling children, controlling children's behavior, cooperative parenting vs adversarial parenting, empathy parenting, family, fun, giving kids information, Jennifer Senior, manipulation, natural parenting, New York Magazine, not rushing children, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting, parenting mythology, parents who control too much, raising children, raising healthy humans, respecting kids' authority, spend time with your children, using empathy, working with kids
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Fostering the “Why?”
“Previously, on A Beautiful Place of the World,”… I spent some time discussing the heretical idea of reconsidering our parental requests before and after we make them, and the idea of negotiating with our kids to meet needs (rather than exclusively enforcing parental whim, … Continue reading →
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Tagged "why", answering kids' questions, attachment parenting, building connection with children, children, children are naturally curious, cro-magnon parenting™, curiosity never killed anyone, empathy parenting, explaining, giving kids information, kids asking "why", modeling, natural drives, natural parenting, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting, teaching
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