Perfect Parenting? Give It Up - Psychology Today
In my discussions with hundreds of the oldest Americans about their parenting advice, I became aware of an underlying message. From their vantage point of looking back over a half century or more of family life, the elders ask us to resist one of the cardinal temptations of American parents—the search for perfection—both in our children and in our own parenting.
In my discussions with hundreds of the oldest Americans about their parenting advice, I became aware of an underlying message. From their vantage point of looking back over a half century or more of family life, the elders ask us to resist one of the cardinal temptations of American parents—the search for perfection—both in our children and in our own parenting.