Navigating the joys and challenges of parenthood with evidence-based approaches and personal insights for raising healthy, happy children
Parenting is both the most rewarding and challenging role you'll ever take on. This category explores:
Whether you're a new parent or navigating the teenage years, these articles offer practical guidance, personal experiences, and research-backed advice to support your parenting journey.
Watching your child grow and learn is amazing, but what happens when your child starts to develop negative habits?
The psychology of expectations in parenting
Think of parenting like managing a production system. You need clear boundaries, consistent enforcement, and meaningful feedback loops. When your deployment fails, you don't just ignore it – you investigate, implement fixes, and prevent future issues. The same principle applies to raising kids who'll thrive in the real world.
Think of family values like your system's core configuration. Without clear config files, your applications run inconsistently, throw random errors, and eventually crash. The same thing happens to families without established values – decisions become arbitrary, conflicts multiply, and everyone operates from different assumptions about how things should work.
Think of parenting roles like system permissions. Your kid doesn't need admin access to the family infrastructure – they need user-level privileges with carefully managed escalation paths. When you try to be their friend instead of their parent, you're essentially giving them root access before they understand how to manage the system responsibly.