Mom's touch is worth something

It can help prevent adult inflammatory-related illnesses. And, not all of those are "physical"; major depression may, in part, have an inflammatory cause.

Conditional-love parenting doesn’t work, Dr. Phil

Showing Dr. Phil and others, who oppose Carl Rogers’ ideas, quite wrong, studies show that conditional-love parenting produces, in essence, conditional self-esteem in children.

I think there’s a lot to this story.

This ties directly to some of the work of Nathaniel Branden, father of the self-esteem movement. (The movement behind things like Character Counts, ultimately, and NOT the father of the false self-esteem movement of never confronting a child and giving everybody in class an A.)

This should also have implications for teachers, especially in younger grades.

And, to the degree support on the job, etc., can be more unconditional vs. less unconditional, I daresay it has connections to management, etc.

Reason No. 932 I’m glad I’m not a parent in today’s world

Can you imagine trying to track, let alone clamp down on or prevent, your child’s online spending? The traditional allowance sounds so quaint.

IMO, what’s really the problem is too-permissive parents. Stop letting children under a certain age on an Internet-accessing computer, period.