- Parents and caregivers are essential to children’s healthy development
Parents, families and caregivers ensure children are healthy and safe, equip them with skills and resources to succeed, and transmit basic cultural values
- Parenting - American Psychological Association (APA)
The job of parenting aims to ensure children’s health and safety, prepare children for life as productive adults, transmit cultural values, and more
- Keeping teens safe on social media: What parents should know to protect . . .
A multipronged approach to social media management, including time limits, parental monitoring and supervision, and ongoing discussions about social media can help parents protect teens’ brain development
- Parental favoritism isn’t a myth
Research reveals how personality traits, birth order, and gender influence parental favoritism, offering insights into family dynamics and the importance of fair treatment
- What advice do psychologists have to offer on how parents can manage . . .
Parenting, while rewarding, brings significant challenges and stress, often leading to burnout This article explores parental burnout, its impact, and offers practical advice from psychologists on managing stress and finding support
- Screen time and emotional problems in kids: A vicious circle?
The findings suggest parents might want to be cautious about what screens they allow and use parental controls to manage time, said Noetel He also noted that kids who use screens heavily might need emotional support, not just restrictions Parents could benefit from programs helping them handle both screen use and emotional problems
- Parenting during the COVID-19 Pandemic
For many parents, home in the age of COVID-19 has become the office, the classroom, even the gym Many parents are struggling to not only keep their children occupied, but also to oversee schooling, even as they telework, grocery shop and perform all the other daily necessities of family life At the same time, children may be reacting to stress by acting out or regressing to behaviors long
- U. S. teens need far more emotional and social support
Parents continue to be an important source of practical, or “instrumental,” support (driving teens where they need to go) as well as emotional support (offering a sympathetic ear at the end of a bad day) “Adolescents very much need those different dimensions of support from their parents,” McCabe said
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