Tag: let your child make mistakes

  • Let’s lose the provocative parenting labels: you do you

    Let’s lose the provocative parenting labels: you do you

    How do you parent? Do you let your kids run amok (free-range parenting), or do you schedule their every moment while standing very nearby (helicopter parenting)? Are you a “gentle” parent, “attachment” parent, “crunchy” parent, “authoritative” parent? And does it really matter? I recently read an article about “puddle parents”: “Puddle parents encourage their children…