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Evidence-based approaches to help you navigate parenting youth in the 2020’s
Overprotective parenting style
from Michigan State University
“The greatest drawback of the overprotective parenting style is underprepared children. Parents in this category are fearful of everything when it comes to their children and expect bad things to happen..”
Tips for Parents of LGBTQ Youth
“In many ways no different from their peers, LGBTQ youth face some unique challenges that parents often feel unprepared to tackle. To help, Johns Hopkins pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist Errol Fieldsshares steps you can take to keep your child happy and healthy.”
What does it mean to be neurodivergent?
from Very Well Mind
“With this shift, practitioners are no longer treating neurodivergence as inherently an illness. They are instead viewing them as different methods of learning and processing information, some of which become disabilities in an inaccessible and ableist society.”
reflective parenting could help-your teenager manage their big-emotions
from MSN
“The teenage years are tough for everyone involved. But research has suggested that an approach known as 'reflective parenting' can be the key to reconnecting.”
How to Support LGBTQ+ Children
“When a child is coming out as LGBTQ+, the most important thing for them to know is that their family supports and loves them. As a parent, you might worry about whether they will be accepted. But it’s important to stay positive around your child and make sure they know they can count on you.”
What is Positive Parenting? 33 Examples and Benefits
“With its focus on happiness, resilience and positive youth development; the field of positive psychology is particularly pertinent to discussions of effective parenting. Thus, whether you are a parent who’s trying to dodge potential problems; or you are already pulling your hair out— you’ve come to the right place.”
How Can We Help Kids With Self-Regulation?
“It’s normal for two-year-olds to have tantrums. But if your child is five or older and still having meltdowns a lot, they may need help learning to control their emotions or behavior. This is called “self-regulation.””
What is Neurodivergence?
from Forbes Health
“In this article, we review the different qualities a neurodivergent individual might have, diagnoses that encompass these qualities and expert-recommended approaches to ensuring neurodivergent individuals lead a happy, successful life.”
How Emotional Dysregulation Feels and Affects Behavior
from MSN
“Emotional dysregulation involves having intense and extreme emotions that do not align in severity with a given event. The problem makes it hard for you to control or manage your emotions. It can also be difficult to return to a normal baseline after an outburst.”
#1 thing successful parents who raise the strongest and most resilient kids do differently: Harvard study
from MSN
“in 2020, I conducted a first-of-its-kind national parenting survey with help from a researcher at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
One of the most fascinating things that followed had to do with a particular parenting style that hurts children's confidence and self-esteem.”
5 Things Every Teen Wants Their Parent to Know
from Psychology Today
“Have you ever thought of asking your teenager for advice?
"What?" You might reply. "Why would I do that? What could she possibly know about life that I don't know better?"
And here's the answer: herself. ”