The modern emphasis on ever - earlier independence and academics seems to inadvertently be sacrificing the very things they are designed to accomplish, and
the modern view of parenting as a «competition» is setting the stage for stress, conflict, and failure.
Not exact matches
To see the
modern world from the point
of view of a
parent is to see it in the worst possible light.
But the
modern, and dominant,
view of developmental scientists like Steinberg is that the degree to which
parents can successfully
parent their children is highly dependent on how well their social environment — education, policy, media, culture, the economy — align to support children's development.
One
of the most important ways
parenting has evolved over time is that in most
modern cultures, children are no longer
viewed as property.