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But at the other end of the spectrum, there's a lot of harm going on there as well, where parents feel a kid can't be successful unless the
parent
is protecting and preventing at every turn and hovering over every happening, and micromanaging every moment, and steering their kid towards some small subset of colleges and careers.
Now, am I saying every kid is hard-working and motivated and doesn't need a
parent'
s involvement or interest in their lives, and we should just back off and let go?
Working-class kids are much more likely to face what's called adverse childhood experiences, which is just a fancy word for childhood trauma: getting hit or yelled at, put down by a
parent
repeatedly, watching someone hit or beat your parent, watching someone do drugs or abuse alcohol.
But it's interesting, the millennials actually want to be very good parents, whereas the generation above them wants to have a very fine marriage but is not as focused on being a good
parent.
So if you're an undocumented parent, every day when you say goodbye to your child, send them off to school and go to work, you don't know what the chances are that you're going to see them at the end of the day.
And we wanted to call our pediatrician, but we also didn't want to make a bad first impression or come across as a crazy, neurotic
parent.
As a new parent, I tell you, I am troubled by devastating images of young children being ripped out of the arms of their parents at the US border and being placed in private detention facilities that did too little to help the kids maintain contact with their parents.
What is a
parent?
Most children started with a
parent
or a sibling.
Underlying was a fear that their children might disapprove and would reject the non-genetic
parent.
And every now and then, all parents may wonder: Am I a good enough
parent?
But they also sometimes wondered: Am I a real
parent?
Let's pretend it's the year 2030, and you're a
parent.
Some men in my
parent'
s community felt that it was unacceptable and dishonorable for a woman to be involved in music and to be so present in the media.
So I figured its purpose would be to address some of the frustrations I had encountered as the
parent
of a young child.
Teens' recommendations for smooth, protected walking and skateboarding paths also support the person in a wheelchair who wishes to go smoothly down the path, or the
parent
pushing a new stroller.
But the tragedy convinced me that I failed as a parent, and it's partially this sense of failure that brings me here today.
For years after the tragedy, I combed through memories, trying to figure out exactly where I failed as a
parent.
I was afraid to turn on the news, afraid to hear myself being called a terrible
parent
or a disgusting person.
So, I began to wonder what it might be like to
parent
my children in a war zone and a refugee camp.
As psychologists and
parent
trainers, we know that arming parents with skills in caring for their children can have a huge effect on their well-being, and we call this
parent
training.
The question I had was, could
parent
training programs be useful for families while they were still in war zones or refugee camps?
Let's find ways to see if
parent
programs can be useful for families in these contexts."
One was a parenting information leaflet that had basic advice and information that normalized to the
parent
what they might be experiencing, and what their child might be experiencing.
Stress during pregnancy is linked with things like high blood pressure and low infant birth weight, and it can begin a cascade of health challenges that make birth much more dangerous for both
parent
and child.
Life, if you needed to learn accounting, you would take an accounting class, or if you become a parent, we pick up a book and we read about it.
There was a study involving a playground fire pole, ironically, in which researchers saw that little girls were very likely to be warned by both their moms and dads about the fire pole's risk, and if the little girls still wanted to play on the fire pole, a
parent
was very likely to assist her.
I have to tell you, as a
parent
myself, that hit me hard, because I know, had I not delved into that research, I would have talked to my own child about contraception, about disease protection, about consent because I'm a modern parent, and I would have thought ... job well done.
You can't tell if someone's dealing with a mental illness, or they're struggling with their gender identity, they're caring for an aging parent, they're having financial difficulty.
Well, tell that to any pediatric cancer
parent
that's ever taken an exam glove and blown it up into a balloon, or transformed a syringe into a rocket ship, or let their child ride their IV pole through the hospital halls like it was a race car.
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