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Let Children Fail Now So They Can Succeed Later

October 14, 2024 by Jeff Bogle

By outright avoiding the challenges of failure and embarrassment now is screwing up our children and filling the world with more and more adults too fragile to exist in a world that won’t kiss their every boo-boo and polish over their errors.

Filed Under: National, parenting advice, parenting styles Tagged With: failure, free-range parenting, helicopter parenting, overparenting, tips

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This Parent Stopped Worrying About ‘That’ Long Ago

May 6, 2024 by Jeff Bogle

Stop worrying about every decision and don’t judge yourself against the people of the Internet. Half that shit is Photoshopped anyway.

Filed Under: parenting advice Tagged With: attachment parenting, free-range parenting, helicopter parenting, tips

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Children’s Future Depends on How We Help Rewrite Their Script

February 19, 2020 by Guest Contributor

Whenever I feel frustrated with fatherhood, I hit the pause button, and then rewind to see how I could change my children’s future.

Filed Under: parenting styles Tagged With: free-range parenting, Gidon Ben-Zvi, helicopter parenting

Which Parenting Style? Why Not a Little of This, a Little of That

November 9, 2017 by Guest Contributor

Many a hardcore parenting style sounds really, really good in theory. But then again, in theory, communism also sounds pretty awesome.

Filed Under: parenting styles Tagged With: free-range parenting, helicopter parenting, Matt Norman

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Grandparents: The Acoustic Version of Parents

September 21, 2016 by Vincent O'Keefe

Grandparents slow down time for today’s kids who are often overscheduled, under pressure, and stressed out.

Filed Under: National, parenting advice Tagged With: free-range parenting, grandparents, Grandparents' Day, helicopter parenting, holidays

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Parents Suck: 11 Reasons to Get Over Yourselves, Mom and Dad

August 30, 2016 by Mike Julianelle

Parents suck. Actually, politicians are probably the worst. And other people’s kids suck pretty bad too. And, of course, Nazis.

Filed Under: NYC, parenting styles Tagged With: active parenting, free-range parenting, gatekeeper parents, helicopter parenting, humor, overparenting, parental guilt

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