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Truth in Parenting
Tearing your hair out over lack of sleep, daycare decisions, homework enforcement, or what to do with the toddler tantrum? Want to feel better about your own tantrum as you try and manage it all? Read my Truth in Parenting blog for evidence-based reassurance (The Art and Science of . . . ), my own True Mom Confessions, and get a sneak peek of what my book offers with Autonomy-Supportive Parenting Diaries. Not sure where to start? Try here.
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New School Year, New Skills! How to Grow Self-Sufficiency
Let’s take this new school year with a new resolve to find opportunities for our children to do more for themselves—for their growth and for our stress!
From “Serve Me” to Self-Sufficiency
Many parents automatically do so much for their kids that we probably do not realize we have sort of programmed our children to expect a full-service instead of self-service lifestyle.
Child Independence Needs a Comeback
I’ve been hearing from parents everywhere that they have noticed even less independence in their children since the pandemic. My theory is that pandemic life fed the flames of intensive parenting due to the high stress and anxiety about our children’s welfare. In place of encouraging independence, the fear of all bad things happening to our children (including actual life and death fears) made us more protective.