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The Parents Aren’t All Right

2024/10/9
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The Surgeon General issued a rare warning about the high stress levels of parents in today's intensive parenting era. This style of parenting involves significant time and money investment in children's development, causing stress and impacting parents' well-being.
  • Intensive parenting is characterized by constant engagement and enrichment activities for children.
  • The Surgeon General's warning highlights the negative impact of intensive parenting on parents' mental health.
  • The constant pressure to optimize children's development contributes to parental stress.

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For years, research on hyper-attentive parenting has focused on all the ways that it can hurt children.

Now, the U.S. government is reframing that conversation and asking if our new era of parenting is actually bad for the parents themselves.

Claire Cain Miller, who covers families and education for The New York Times, explains why raising children is a risk to your health.

Guest: Claire Cain Miller), a reporter who writes for The Upshot at The New York Times.

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