Parenting Styles: Which Ones Are We (And Should We Care?)
Helicopter moms, snowplow moms, tiger moms, free-range moms\u2026 we usually define all of these parenting types in the negative: well, at least I\u2019m not THAT. \nBut are there useful takeaways from each of these parenting styles that we can combine cafeteria-style to create our own? Can we reject some of the judginess of free-range parenting, or the tyranny of tiger momming, and still find things to love? What do we miss when we reject other moms' ways of doing things full-stop?\xa0 \nHere are links to the books and articles we mention in this episode: \nFrank Bruni: Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania\nAmy Chua: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother\nFoster Cline and Jim Fay: Parenting With Love and Logic\nNancy Gibbs for Time: Roaring Tigers, Anxious Choppers \nThe Grammarphobia Blog: The Original Tiger Mother? \nDr. James R. Laider for Autism Watch: The "Refrigerator Mother" Hypothesis of Autism\nHeather Marcoux for Motherly: 'Snowplow parents' and the lessons we can take from them\nJessica McCrory Calarco for The Atlantic: 'Free Range' Parenting's Unfair Double Standard\nClaire Cain Miller and Jonah Engel Bromwich for NYT: How Parents Are Robbing Their Children of Adulthood\nArti Patel for Global News: \u2018Panda parenting\u2019 is all about giving children more freedom \u2014 but does it work?\nKatie Roiphe for Slate: The Seven Myths of Helicopter Parenting\nLenore Skenazy: Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry) \nEmma Waverman for Today's Parent: Snowplow Parenting: The Latest Controversial Technique\nEsther Wojcicki for Time: I Raised Two CEOs and a Doctor. These Are My Secrets to Parenting Successful Children\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices