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Tag Archives: All Joy and No Fun
Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting (Re-blog)
Originally posted on "A Beautiful Place of the World":
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…
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's behavior, cooperative parenting vs adversarial parenting, empathy parenting, family, 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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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 →
Posted in Parenting Ideas
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Tagged All Joy and No Fun, attachment parenting, children, controlling children's behavior, cro-magnon parenting, disruptions to natural parenting, empathy parenting, family 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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