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I am looking to have conversations with parents or hear anecdotes of child-rearing in our increasingly child-oriented society, fast-food, instant gratification, instant-solution society.
There are more and more professional parents out there. Not parents who happen to be professionals, too, but professional parents. Women (primarily) whose life's ambition is to be the "best" mother and have the "best" kids who have the "right" friends, participate in the "best" activities and have perfectly planned lives. How do you fit into all of that?
I've had a variety of conversations with professionals around the concepts of this type of child-centered parenting, though I would actively welcome more professional conversation. Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld calls it "hyper-parenting," Dr. Aaron Cooper calls it "The Happiness Creed," and Dr. Jean Ilsley Clarke calls it "overindulgence." Whatever you call this phenomenon, I'm writing a book regarding it, how it's affected children's resiliency and parent's ability to trust their parental instincts.
I want to know how our "fast-food world" is affecting parents:
* Is your happiness scarified? Or are you finding happiness as a professional parent?
* What happens to the parent who eschews the idea that her job is to put her child first at all cost?
I want to know what people think of the prevailing attitude that no child is average, that all children can excel at anything they set their mind to and that it's a parent's responsibility to provide the opportunity to explore as many activities as possible? Have parents found this to be encouraging to their children or have some children been overwhelmed by this vast array of choices?
Please know that all replies will be held in confidence, will not be shared and will not be used without your permission.
Please contact Amanda at: [email protected]
I am looking to have conversations with parents or hear anecdotes of child-rearing in our increasingly child-oriented society, fast-food, instant gratification, instant-solution society.
There are more and more professional parents out there. Not parents who happen to be professionals, too, but professional parents. Women (primarily) whose life's ambition is to be the "best" mother and have the "best" kids who have the "right" friends, participate in the "best" activities and have perfectly planned lives. How do you fit into all of that?
I've had a variety of conversations with professionals around the concepts of this type of child-centered parenting, though I would actively welcome more professional conversation. Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld calls it "hyper-parenting," Dr. Aaron Cooper calls it "The Happiness Creed," and Dr. Jean Ilsley Clarke calls it "overindulgence." Whatever you call this phenomenon, I'm writing a book regarding it, how it's affected children's resiliency and parent's ability to trust their parental instincts.
I want to know how our "fast-food world" is affecting parents:
* Is your happiness scarified? Or are you finding happiness as a professional parent?
* What happens to the parent who eschews the idea that her job is to put her child first at all cost?
I want to know what people think of the prevailing attitude that no child is average, that all children can excel at anything they set their mind to and that it's a parent's responsibility to provide the opportunity to explore as many activities as possible? Have parents found this to be encouraging to their children or have some children been overwhelmed by this vast array of choices?
Please know that all replies will be held in confidence, will not be shared and will not be used without your permission.
Please contact Amanda at: [email protected]
