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Tag Archives: parents who control too much
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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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting
I almost wrote a post about it last summer, when I read the New York Magazine article, All Joy and No Fun by Jennifer Senior, but I didn’t. I was already writing something else, and then something else, and then something … Continue reading →
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Tagged All Joy and No Fun, attachment parenting, children, controlling children, controlling children's behavior, cro-magnon parenting™, disruptions to natural parenting, empathy parenting, fun, Jennifer Senior, manipulation, natural parenting, New York Magazine, parent-child relations, parenting, parenting mythology, parents who control too much, raising children, raising healthy humans
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Benefit of the Belief
As parents, we’re all pretty used to being the ones most “in the know” in the family, right? We’re “the bosses”, “the head honchos”, “the leaders”, “the responsible parties”. Sometimes we don’t own our leadership roles enough, but more often … Continue reading →
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Eyes on the Prize
We parents have a ton of goals, don’t we? We have ideals toward which we live for ourselves, how we parent, what we hope for our children. We have ways we want to be, things we want to do, ends … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment parenting, behavior, behaviorism, controlling children, controlling children's behavior, empathy parenting, natural parenting, parent-child bonding, parent-child relations, parenting, parenting mythology, parenting success, parents who control too much, parents' goals for kids, radical strategies
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Mama — if you love me — why don’t you like me?
Here’s a question worth considering — What do you think of your child? Here’s a more important one — What does your child think you think of him/her? The two are related but not at all the same thing. Certainly, … Continue reading →
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Tagged attachment parenting, bad kids, behavior, children, choice, controlling children, controlling children's behavior, emotional intelligence, good kids, law of attraction, natural parenting, parenting, parents who control too much, perspectives, using empathy
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