Parental Consideration Series – Introduction
The Parenting Crash Cycle: When Yesterday’s Success Becomes Today’s Failure We’ve all been there. One day we’re “killing it” as parents, confidently gliding through the sky with our newly gained wisdom. “Maybe I finally got it,” we think as the morning routine flows smoothly and arguments dissolve easily. But just as we start looking down…
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Parental Consideration Series – Post 2
What Research Reveals About Parental consideration Remember that parenting crash cycle? The frustration of strategies that work one day but fail the next? In a recent study (2022), researchers Joussemet and Grolnick analyzed decades of parenting research and found that, despite coming from completely different scientific traditions, the parenting dimensions that support healthy development -…
Parental Consideration Series – Post 3
The secret ingredient to helping our children grow isn’t a “what” but a “how”, a process we can adjust and refine as we go along. In my last post, I talked about a common element found across approaches that support children’s growth, whether academic, socio-emotional, or cognitive: Taking the child’s experience and viewpoint into account.…
Parental Consideration Series – Post 4
You’re not failing when big interventions don’t work, you’re discovering the power of precision over force. In my last post, I talked about parental consideration -noticing and interpreting our children’s experience before responding – as a process, rather than a fixed standard to either have or aim for. Thinking of this as a process decreases…
Parental Considerations Series – Post 5
Consistency isn’t about aiming for sameness. It’s about responsiveness within a changing system Over the past few months, I’ve shared research on parental consideration: how consistently taking your child’s viewpoint and experience into account supports development across ages, contexts, and domains. We explored what gets in the way: our minds pulling us from the present…