Tag: child development
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What is the difference between stress and anger
Stress and anger often appear together, but treating them as the same thing makes parenting harder. Stress can build as pressure, tiredness, uncertainty or too many demands accumulate. Anger is a specific emotional response that can rise quickly when the child experiences frustration, obstruction or unfairness. Understanding the difference helps parents respond to the underlying…
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Who controls screen time in your family?
Healthy screen habits depend on more than choosing good content. Parents also need to decide who controls access, when screens appear and when they stop. This parenting approach repeatedly returns to a simple question: “Who has the remote control?” Its message is that adults should not hand responsibility for screen boundaries to children before they…
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How to adapt parenting to a child’s changing needs
Children do not all express the same needs in the same way, and the balance can change as they grow. This parenting approach brings together three recurring needs: connection, competence and control or autonomy. It argues that children function more evenly when all three receive attention, while also showing that one need may appear more…