I’m hosting weekend retreats all over America. It is like a 24-hour slumber party for moms. We laugh, eat, play games, get massages, win prizes, talk about parenting and even cry a bit.
Indeed – judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
Parenting is an impossible job at any age.
We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys, not the hassles; the love, not the disappointments; the common sense, not the complexities.
My kids love it. I thought I was the coolest dad in the world when I got to be in a Bond film, but ‘Harry Potter’, too? Well, I think I qualify for a medal for exceptional parenting or something, don’t you?
I hope to find the roles that are age appropriate but not yearning to be younger, or parenting ad nauseam.
While not impossible, it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.
I’m trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
Very often when you see families it’s all perfect and neat, and parenting isn’t like that. You do have constant negotiations. Things are ever developing and ever changing, and you constantly have to evaluate how you deal with your kids.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Attachment parenting is not a passive parenting style.
Relationships are complicated no matter what style of parenting you choose.
I realize that of all people, I am no expert on parenting or marriage.
I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.
I’m endlessly fascinated by parenting, marriage, my wife and the ins and outs of marriage.
I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
Tiger parenting is all about raising independent, creative, courageous kids. In America today, there’s a dangerous tendency to romanticize creativity in a way that may undermine it.
I think there are many ways to raise great kids. From what I can tell, Ayelet Waldman’s kids are interesting, strong, and happy, and if that’s the case, that’s good parenting.
Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, ‘I want to improve my parenting – let’s see how the chimps do it!’
Here’s a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
I’m afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.
I think we’ve moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.
My approach to parenting is that everything is open – everything. I’m not very good at covert, or subtle, and I’ve had to learn timing. I do blunder in a bit.
