Being a parent can be the greatest thing ever — and one of the hardest. One of the harder tasks of parenting, at least for me, is figuring out the line between exerting parental control and letting ...
Readers offer examples in response to a guest essay. To the Editor: Re “Giving Kids Autonomy Has Surprising Results,” by Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop (Opinion guest essay, Jan. 4): Those ...
We appear to be in the middle of a crisis in childhood independence. A recent study in the Journal of Pediatrics made headlines with evidence showing a link between lower independence in today's ...