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Oh good. More ways I can mis-raise my child. I complimented the object instead of the subject in a sentence! Oh shiiiiiiit.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/shouts/2014/03/new-par...

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My personal experiences doesn't lend me to think much about news articles regarding such studies.

>I love [...] science

>So guess what I think about these studies.

My guess is that you think your experience alone is not statistically relevant.

My experience is definitely anecdotal. I probably misspoke, my problem is with the reporting of the studies, not the science itself.

Congratulations on overcoming that.

Don't know why you're being downvoted. As a parent, every single time I read something about 'raising your kids X', Dr. Lipschitz (from The Rugrats) comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNTesmh1wpI

Probably because most of this is common sense that you do anyway. Generally speaking, you don't tell you child that he's and evil human being because he didn't pick up his toys.

But you want a kid to self-identify as a "good" person, and do what good people do. For most folks, this stuff either happens pretty naturally, or the parents adapt as their kid learns how to game them.

I would say that, no, parents should not be expected to internalize all of the thousands of different things we're finding out about the best ways to raise kids. It's far too much to know, and the knowledge is currently too tentative. But, it's also pointless to bring that up every time a new study comes out, because these things are good to know. That's probably why the GP is catching downvotes.

I've seen how parents can get amazingly OCD with these studies. They'll form cliques and look down on parents who don't perform what the current best practice is. Because of that, I think it always bears repeating.

That video is...something else.

To the person who downvoted me, did you watch the video?

lol

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