The field of adolescent psychology is increasingly focused on parents, with researchers asking how mothers and fathers control themselves in difficult interactions with their children.
What parenting is like in the age of Google
Rebecca Parlakian, director of the Zero to Three program—an organization that has been studying new parents for more than 40 years—was quoted in the NYT article saying: “Google is the new grandparent, the new neighbor, the new nanny.”
The real reason behind the rise of helicopter parenting
So why do so many seemingly sane people get over-involved with their kids? The answer is not that parents have collectively come unhinged, according to the new book Love, Money and Parenting: How Economics Explains the Way We Raise Our Kids. Rather, parents today are rational economic actors responding to an increasingly unhinged environment.
The evolving social context of parenting
For centuries, it wasn’t unusual for a wife to be pregnant a dozen times or more. It involved little planning, but was more like a biological imperative, impelled by the survival instinct.
Chinese New Year is all about the family
Our journey on new year’s eve took slightly over six hours, thanks to the massive construction site that is the Pan Borneo highway project and getting stuck behind a lorry transporting gas cylinders.
Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office
As a psychologist who works with teenagers, I hear this concern often from the parents of many of my patients. They routinely remark that their sons do just enough to keep the adults off their backs, while their daughters relentlessly grind, determined to leave no room for error. The girls don’t stop until they’ve polished each assignment to a high shine and rewritten their notes with color-coded precision.