Parenting and family stuff
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unpopular PARENT | Erin Miller | Substack
unpopularparent.substack.com
We’re decades deep into the helicopter parenting era. Children have never been healthier or safer, but then, American children have been remarkably healthy and safe for decades longer, there was never any real “stranger danger,” and improvements to child health are the product of improving medical technology, not ever-more-anxious parents.
Freddie DeBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.
“Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.”
― Kevin Kelly
Opinion | Giving Kids Some Autonomy Has Surprising Results
nytimes.com
In the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development (ABCD) project, a cohort of over 10,000 children in the US was tracked longitudinally. A 2023 analysis of the data revealed that the earlier a child was reading for pleasure, the more this correlated with higher scores on cognitive tests and lower numbers of mental health issues, even after... See more
In only three generations, children in the British Isles as well as the United States have lost their freedom to roam, their independently explorable territories shrinking from hundreds of acres to the dimensions of each child’s own back yard. This is not an accusation toward parents; their decisions reflect their judgments about their children’s
... See moreSimplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
When boys are showing care and concern and support for other people, celebrate it in the same way that you might celebrate more traditional things that are celebrated for boys, like sports victories or catching a big fish. You want to celebrate when they care for friends or family, too