Bubble-wrapping children doesn’t work. They need to experience mild adversity, to know how to overcome it when they inevitably face it in life.
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Paying to get your kids into prestigious universities is an example of a ‘bulldozer parenting’ trend, which reduces exposure to failure and can lead to mental health difficulties.
You don’t share your phone with strangers Mum, so I’m not sharing my doll with her.
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Should we teach our kids to share their things considering adults don’t share their possessions? Shouldn’t kids be taught not to use things that aren’t theirs? Maybe we should just let them figure things out for themselves.
If you’re constantly clearing their path of any obstacles, how will your kids find their own way?
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An aged-care nurse was recently telling me that their nursing home was seeing most of their World War II veterans pass away, to be replaced by baby boomers. “You know something though,” she quipped “compared…
Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa