The great
thing about being a parent today is that you have access to all these great products that make your life so much easier.
One of the things to
fight about is parenting time with the kids, especially since more time with the kids means lower child support payments to the other party.
I'm sure most parents of gifted children have found the reality of gifted parenting to be quite different from what they had
imagined about being a parent.
One of the things that nobody tells
women about being parents is that mostly, everyone is just figuring it out as they go along.
The odds of mothers with no educational qualifications having highly authoritarian attitudes or negative
feelings about being a parent were more than three times higher than for the most educated group.
In a particularly cringe - inducing exchange captured on film, Councilwoman Maria Del Carmen Arroyo of the Bronx accuses Ms. Moskowitz of lying when the charter school leader
talks about being a parent in Harlem (the neighborhood where she grew up, where she attended public school, and where she is raising her children, who attend the charter).
Despite having no children himself, the adviser calmed Metallo's fears
about being a parent in academia: Other people have done it, the adviser told him, and you can, too.
Parents were asked to rate on a five - point Likert scale the extent to which they agreed with a series of
statements about being a parent, with higher scores suggestive of higher levels of parenting stress.
Just recently, I was talking with a
counselor about being a parent and how there is all of this pressure to make sure you do the best for your child, ensure that they have everything they need to be successful and happy and healthy (aka, high - achieving).
For those parents in the majority, who are
serious about being a parent, it's a tough transition from parenting a young child who either listens to you when you give an order, or whom you can actually pick up and remove from a problem situation, to a prickly adolescent whose response to parental demands is often some version of «You can't make me do it».
The Power in Parenting isn't
just about being a parent, and learning skills and techniques to become more confident, but also «how» we were parented as a child can have a lasting impact on our lives as adults
Parental
resentment about being a parent was measured with one item, asking them which statement applied to them «when thinking about the things I have had to give up because of (the child)...»:
«The idea that Dads would meet with other dads and talk
about being parents with their children present feels pretty fresh,» Andrew tells us.
MommyB Knows Best is not only about parenting, honest reviews, giveaways, tips and tricks, not only about my beautiful biracial daughters, not only about my hodge podge family, but it's about life,
learning about being a parent, and evolving.
When these influences were taken into account, the odds of parents in BC1 expressing negative
feelings about being a parent were 1.8 times higher than those of parents in BC2.