Parenting Styles: Which Ones Are We (And Should We Care?)
b'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'