While newfangled names for parenting styles, from tiger to panda, tend to conjure images of an unruly zoo, most are just trendy spins on one of four basic styles that have been referred to by ...

Cycle-breaking, attachment, and cause-and-effect parenting are some of the top parenting styles now on the rise for America’s youngest kids, according to new research. A survey of 2,000 parents of ...

Parenting at the holidays is already a high-wire act, so it's comforting (inspiring, even!) to remember that Christmas movies ...

It is a stereotype that, in therapy, all of a person’s problems will be blamed on their parents. That is not the case. But decades of psychological research have suggested that the approach to ...

"Obedience-first parenting utilizes blame, shame, guilt, judgment and fear to create power and control over a child and prioritizes listening to the adult above all else (even the child’s own feelings ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Parenting can be one of the most daunting journeys a person undertakes. Despite ...

Over the past 25 years, there’s been a palpable rise in parenting experts and trendy parenting styles. Are you a millennial who wants to avoid the helicopter parenting trap? No problem! A quick search ...

We are living in an age of metaphorical parenting. First it was tiger parenting. Then helicopter parenting, snowplow parenting, and free-range parenting became trends. Now, gentle parenting is having ...