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The book focuses on the dangers of over-scheduling and over-working children, and emphasizes the importance of letting kids have free time and boredom. It also explores how the culture of over-ambitious parenting is contributing to a falling birthrate and increased childhood anxiety.
A new book called Family Unfriendly: How our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to be. It's shining a light on the dangers of over scheduling and over working our children.
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The book focuses on the dangers of over-scheduling and over-working children, and emphasizes the importance of letting kids have free time and boredom. It also explores how the culture of over-ambitious parenting is contributing to a falling birthrate and increased childhood anxiety.
A new book called Family Unfriendly: How our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to be. It's shining a light on the dangers of over scheduling and over working our children.
If you feel guilty that you're not running around like the the biggest tiger mom in the world, the main thing you're doing wrong is feeling guilty about it.
I always talk about supporting culture because sometimes a conservative like me thinks okay, the whole thing is about nuclear family good parents can protect you from bad things. But it's so much harder to keep your kids off social media if all of their friends are using it.
The number one cause of the rise in childhood anxiety is the lack of independent play free from supervision by adults.
Raising kids is a bit like smoking pork shoulder. It's not going to be quick and you do need to check that thermometer from time to time. But you'll get the best outcome if you avoid constantly lifting the lid and prodding the meat.
