Your Parenting Mojo
Research-driven parenting; claims trace back to developmental science and papers
54:08When a child asks permission for everything, the problem is perfectionism, not the child
A four-and-a-half-year-old boy comes home from preschool and starts asking permission for everything; his mother finds that when she sets perfectionism aside and stops handing him answers, his ability to solve problems on his own far exceeds what she expected.
1:00:19The biggest financial gift to a child isn't a college fund — it's a business at 10
A 10-year-old earned $759 of retirement money from pet-sitting — not early hothousing, but real responsibility building systems thinking, boundaries, persistence and financial independence.
18:09Mothers Aren't Sick, Society Is: How a Depression Diagnosis Moves the Problem
Burnout gets misdiagnosed as depression, and the problem is attributed to the individual brain rather than the social environment. A New Zealand study found that new mothers who had someone help with the housework every day for six months almost never developed postpartum depression, yet medication is still the first-line answer.
30:41ADHD Medication Changes Behavior, Not Learning
Barkley likens ADHD to diabetes, yet 64% of children move in and out of the diagnostic criteria repeatedly; medication buys compliance without improving learning, the long-term MTA follow-up confirms no academic advantage, and what actually works is small-group differentiated teaching.