Tag: Parenting

Before you get all panicked that it's another one of those articles that tells you to ignore the dishes until tomorrow because babies grow up to our sorrow let me reassure you: it’s not.

"The parent who spares the rod does not only ruin the child, but also ruins a future relationship with the child."

"I couldn't wrap my mind around it all. When parents seek to raise their children in a godly way, how can parenting still be so hard?"

"My son was just a casualty of another child learning and growing, and I’m A-Okay with that."

"I’m gross. I’m exhausted. If one more person touches me, I might lose it. I wonder if at some point it will seem easier to put in extra hours at work instead of coming home to an exhausted wife who seems to be barely holding it together?"

"To say as a parent, 'I’ll let them decide on their own,' sounds so enlightened. But it's the most dangerous thing a parent could say."

There are five parenting traps that many well-intentioned modern parents fall into without even knowing it.

"In my 12 years as a family therapist, I’ve seen many well-intentioned parents mistakenly employing strategies that aren’t meeting the emotional or developmental needs of their children or families. I’ve also observed an increasing number of parents that are successfully mapping out new and healthier ways of raising children."