Tuesday, December 1, 2009

2 Interesting Articles - Parenting

Both of these articles are very interesting, as a parent and an educator. We try to stress creating self-reliant citizens before we send them to High School. Sadly, and all too often, our greatest challenges are working with some parents. I hope you can take a few minutes and read these.

The Growing Backlash Against Over-Parenting
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1940395,00.html

Do Parents Matter? (this article was referenced in Time's article)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-03-parents-edit_x.htm

I did think the quote from the Freakonomics Authors really hit home: "So it isn't that parents don't matter. Clearly, they matter an awful lot. It's just that by the time most parents pick up a book on parenting technique, it's too late. Many of the things that matter most were decided long ago — what kind of education a parent got, how hard he worked to build a career, what kind of spouse he wound up with and how long they waited to have children."

I will be reading Freakonomics very soon!