What Are We Teaching Our Children?
When you think of instilling your child with kindness and empathy, do you think about the various ways we inhibit this development in modern parenting?
When you think of instilling your child with kindness and empathy, do you think about the various ways we inhibit this development in modern parenting?
Here I want to lay out some critical distinctions between what it means to distract, redirect, or respond to a child, what it looks like, and whether or not each method works, according to research.
The argument is that if you have a warmer relationship at other times, the failure to be responsiveness or to even be hurtful is not a problem. The problem is that science doesn't back that up at all...
My response to the ever popular CIO argument of: "My baby just gets overtired and needs to cry to get all that extra energy out before she sleeps."