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Permissive Parenting: What It Costs

Permissive parenting — a lot of warmth, very little structure — produces homes that feel loving from the inside. The child is accepted, hugged, listen...

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Why Autonomy-Supportive Parenting Produces Better Outcomes

A 3-year-old who has been told what to wear, what to eat, what to play with, and when to nap, all morning, is going to fight you about putting on shoe...

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Parenting

The Authoritative Parenting Style and Its Impact on Children

"Authoritative" is one of those clinical terms that sounds drier than it is. In actual life, it's the parent who can say, "We're leaving the playgroun...

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Parenting

The Authoritarian Parenting Style and Its Consequences

Authoritarian parenting works in the short term in a way that's genuinely seductive — your toddler stops the behavior, the meltdown ends, the room get...

6 min read