Well… whether they call it “slow parenting,” “raising free range children” (or maybe even “parenting with the Four Foundations”) people are finally catching on to the idea that when we do too much for our children we actually create the results we’re trying to avoid. Yes, the super-involved helicopter parent has the best of intentions… to protect their children from all of society’s real or imagined ills. Instead, they are setting their kids up so that they are ill-equipped to handle routine stuff — never mind…
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Dale Carnegie Meets Mr. Rogers????
Friendship can be tough – and sometimes even more difficult to navigate without the longer view that age provides. As the parent of the smartest, nicest, coolest kid in the group — the one who should automatically be the most popular – it can be tempting to jump right in and ‘straighten things out,’ can’t it? Sometime during my son’s early baseball years, he apparently confided in his Grandpa. One of the more popular players on the team was teasing him about not being as good…