It’s hard to be a parent. And there is mounting evidence that when it comes to making our children less anxious, we are getting it wrong. Our kids are reporting greater levels of anxiety than ever before.
Early marriage leads to domestic violence: survey
A survey conducted by Punjab Commission on Status of Women here Monday revealed that early marriage deprives girls of education opportunities and predisposes them to teen childbearing as well as domestic and spousal violence.
Children who spend more than two hours a day on smartphones seven times more likely to develop ADHD
Prof Mandhane said the new findings suggested screen time should be far more limited for pre-school children. He said: “Our data suggests between zero and 30 minutes a day is the optimal amount of screen time. “The preschool period is an ideal time for education on healthy relationships with screens, and we believe our data shows that you can’t start too early.”
The most important study on parenting in the age of anxiety
Now a fascinating study suggests that there’s a lot that parents can do to improve their kids’ level of anxiety. And it’s the parents, not the kids, who are going to have to change.
4 ways working dads can make more time for family
According to The Boston College Center for Work and Family, one of the few organizations focusing on the changing role dads play both at home and in the workplace, the answer is a resounding yes. It recently found that fathers may experience as much or more work-family conflict than their female counterparts.
All parenting is hard — Don’t compare yourself with others
I have a deep desire to connect with other moms — share in struggles and joys, laugh together through the tears over the absurdity of it all. I work hard to create that village that everyone is saying no longer exists. Instead, though, this never-ending motherhood contest that society has forced us into means that my friends don’t feel their struggles are worthy of sharing with me. They don’t have more than one kid, they don’t have twins, they don’t, they don’t, they don’t… They belittle their legitimate struggles and heartaches because they somehow feel it isn’t enough to be worked up over.