Why Too Many Parents Aren’t Doing Enough Helicopter Parenting
We worry our son will pick up ideas and behaviors we do not support that will someone else will reinforce. So we’re taking an active role in his life, even though it requires more of us.
‘Bare Minimum Parenting’ May Be Better For You And Your Kids
Author James Breakwell joins the Federalist Radio Hour to argue why you should stop helicopter parenting and learn to embrace your child’s destiny as devastatingly average.
How America’s Obsession With Safety Is Stunting Our Kids’ Spirituality
America’s safety obsession reveals not so much a healthy desire to protect our children as the gangrenous decay of a society that has rejected the transcendent.
What Cultural Trends Created ‘The Coddling Of The American Mind’?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff join Federalist Radio to discuss what’s happening in both child development and on college campuses.
The March For Our Lives Was Just ‘Helicopter Protesting’
In a triumph of helicopter parenting, the ‘student-led’ March for Our Lives protest turns out to have been mostly organized and paid for by adult activists.
Evil, Not Homeschooling, Caused The California ‘House Of Horrors’
If local governments can’t protect the children in their own schools, what makes anyone think they can protect children in home schools they are only going to inspect once a year?
‘Black Mirror’ Suggests Technology Is Actually More Dangerous For Parents Than For Kids
Technological tools parents even a decade ago didn’t possess are empowering us to micromanage our children all the way into adulthood and beyond.
Ben Sasse Almost Pierces Our Helicopter Parents Problem: Child Neglect
We over-parent our children in scheduling because we under-parent our children in sitting and talking. They’re still present in the house at 30 because they weren’t fully in our presence at 10.
Mom Ticketed For Neglect After Calling Police To Help Free Toddler Locked in Car
Let’s give parents in scary moments a bit of grace. This is a difference of opinion and approach, not a criminal matter.
WaPo’s Aaron Blake On Bannon, Trump’s Agenda, And Helicopter Parenting
Aaron Blake, senior political reporter at The Washington Post, joins Federalist Radio Hour to explain Trump’s demotion of Steve Bannon, the Read Full Article >
Building A Village Can Address The Lonely Compulsions Of Modern Parenting
We all need support and help, especially in an age where mobility and technology often drive us apart. Here’s how you can build community where you live.
Uncle Sam Thinks He Can Parent Better Than Moms And Dads
The government wants to usurp parents, any chance they get. What consequences does this have in the lives of American families?
6 Reasons Donald Trump’s Presidency Could Be Great For Parents
I’d like nothing more than for a Donald Trump presidency to usher in a new age of reduced government involvement in family life.
Stop Siccing The Police On Me If My Kids Don’t Wear Coats For 20 Seconds
Obviously, it’s my parental duty to keep my kids from freezing to death. I’m willing to do that. I could manage better without all the public judgment, though.
Why Joshua Harris Was Wrong To Kiss Dating Goodbye
Homeschool star Joshua Harris’s myopic criticism of dating causes him to miss one of the defining features of the modern sexual ethic: hooking up.
How Judging Other Parents Can Equal Class Warfare
Moral outrage over many basic parenting choices is not only illogical and statistically unfounded but a hallmark of the new class war.
Why I Make My Kids Take Risks
As a scaredy cat who can’t even go down a slide without freaking out, it’s important to me that my kids learn to do things that scare them.
Book Bans Are Political Proxy Wars, And Conservatives Are Losing
The progressive Americans who cry ‘censorship’ when parents protest high school reading assignments tend to be the same population that supports trigger warnings in college classrooms.
If A Gorilla Attacks A Child, Shoot The Gorilla Every Time
The Cincinnati Zoo shot a gorilla who was dragging a child around. Good on them — but not on all the lazy hashtag activists calling for his mother to be investigated.
Black Helicopter Parents Use The Police To Enforce Their Parenting Style
Why just worry about your own kids’ every move when you can anonymously ‘look out’ for others and call government force and community fear to your aid?
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