OVER DEZE AFLEVERING
The "Intensive Parenting" style, also called helicopter or overly involved parenting, has become part of our cultural norms. While many aspects of this type of parenting are good for children, it has largely negative effects on parents' mental health.
Primary caregivers, mostly women, bear the burden of child-rearing. The practice leaves out other factors that influence a child's development, such as culture, media, peers, school, genetics, and extended families. In this episode, Stef shares how she copes with the heavy load of "intensive" parenting and offers a pretty awesome new way to deal with the cultural norms that expect the world from mothers.
Referenced in this Episode:
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Study: In the Best Interests of Children? The Paradox of Intensive Parenting and Children's Health - Mara A. Yerkes, Marit Hopman, F. Marijn Stok & John De Wit (2021) Critical Public Health, 31:3, 349-360, DOI: 10.1080/09581596.2019.1690632
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Impact of media use on children and youth. Paediatr Child Health. 2003 May;8(5):301-17. doi: 10.1093/pch/8.5.301. PMID: 20020034; PMCID: PMC2792691.
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Stop Pretending Intensive Parenting Doesn't Work by Nate G. Hilger from the Atlantic
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Definition of Intensive Parenting from Parenting Culture Studies by Lee, Faircloth, et al. (2014)
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