Parenting Today
Parents today get so many different messages from – the pediatrician, online articles, social media posts, grandparents, childcare givers, friends – about how best to parent.
Spouses, co-parents, and parenting partners can disagree.
Everyone has an opinion about what a parent should do when their child:
Has a Trantrum
Won’t get off their tablet
Has a hard time at school/childcare
Won’t pick up their toys
Lies
Won’t eat dinner
Fights with their siblings and/or peers
Won’t go to bed/sleep
Here are some of the parenting approaches that are get a lot of publicity today as the best way to solve behavior problems:
Permissive
Helicopter
Positive Parenting
Free-Range
Positive Discipline
Attachment
Elephant Parent
Authoritative
Tiger Mom
Authoritarian
Type B
Good Enough Parent
They each offer different ways to solve parenting problems, some are similar to each other and some are conflicting. What is the best for you? Your family?
These messages can be overwhelming.
Social media offers another layer of pressure:
- Pictures of perfect homes
- Perfect moms
- Perfect dads
- Perfect kids
And there are all those videos of children crying, getting into trouble, and being shamed, mocked and laughed at for the whole world to see. UGH!
Parents feel so much pressure to parent well. They can get conflicting messages to “do this” or “do that.” They don’t want to make a mistake, but they don’t know what to do.
Sometimes when parents are trying to be a good parent, have so much to do and are trying so hard to do everything, they may feel like they need to be perfect in parenting and perfect in managing life in order to get everything done.
If you are looking for parenting advice that research has proven leads to the best outcomes for children, including less teenage drinking and doing well in school, I am able to provide this support.
The goal of my work with parents is to encourage their innate nurturing desires and
to strengthen their relationship with their child.