Between the ages of 18 months and 3 years, children begin to express a greater need for independence and control over themselves and the world around them. Encouraging children to try tasks on their ...

Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...

Research shows that the quality of mother-child relationships greatly influences children's development socially, emotionally and academically. Although previous studies have demonstrated the ...

Most parents of a certain age, myself included, had to learn to be independent growing up. Many households needed two incomes to sustain themselves, leaving children alone to fend for themselves when ...

Being a parent can be the greatest thing ever — and one of the hardest. One of the harder tasks of parenting, at least for me, is figuring out the line between exerting parental control and letting ...

Parental rights have emerged as a central battleground in the culture wars, debated in school board meetings, courtrooms and legislative chambers across the country. As conflicts intensify over what ...