Blaming the Parents

See, if you were the perfect parent, your kid would have no issues apparently.

How Empathic Parenting Is the Antithesis of Narcissism

If you had a narcissistic parent or if you just live in this narcissistic culture today, you may be wondering a lot about parenting and how to do things differently so you can raise a healthy, emotionally sound child. When raised in narcissistic families, children grow up with an "empty tank" because their emotional needs were not met. They may have had a roof over their heads, food to eat, and clothes to wear, but emotionally they feel orphaned and alone. Their most precious inner emotional life was not encouraged to grow and mature. Feelings were not validated or acknowledged and the result is growing up with nagging self-doubt and a fragile sense of self.

Gotta love the feminist psycho-babble, eh?

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

hen it comes to rearing children, just about any parent will say that what works with one kid might not work with another. Parents use all sorts of strategies to keep kids from being cranky, grumpy, fearful or moody, while encouraging them to be independent and well-adjusted.

Kids’ Anxiety, Depression Halved When Parenting Styled to Personality

Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation

Psychiatric experts assess parental alienation

The American Psychiatric Association has a hot potato on its hands as it updates its catalog of mental disorders — whether to include parental alienation, a disputed term conveying how a child's relationship with one estranged parent can be poisoned by the other.

Massachusetts warns parents of young children to avoid bisphenol A

Massachusetts warns parents of young children to avoid bisphenol A

Massachusetts public health officials today warned parents of young children to avoid storing infant formula or breast milk in plastic bottles containing bisphenol A -- and urged pregnant or breastfeeding women to avoid the common chemical in other food and drink containers.

You Gotta Keep 'Em Medicated

You Gotta Keep 'Em Medicated

Parents of kids with ADHD more likely to divorce, study says

For many years, scientists have explored how parental conflicts and other marital problems can affect the well-being of children. Far less attention has been paid to the opposite question: How do children, especially difficult children, influence the quality of married life?

Parents of kids with ADHD more likely to divorce, study says