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This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n In 2024, Russell Shaw made the case for the Lighthouse Parent. \u201cA Lighthouse Parent stands as a steady, reliable guide,\u201d Shaw writes, \u201cproviding safety and clarity without controlling every aspect of their child\u2019s journey.\u201d The term, used by the pediatrician Kenneth Ginsburg and others, is a useful rejoinder to the strong pull of intensive parenting. Parents\u2019 first instinct is often to give a solution, to get involved, to fix it. It\u2019s a natural impulse\u2014\u201cwe\u2019re biologically wired to prevent our children\u2019s suffering, and it can be excruciating to watch them struggle,\u201d Shaw writes.<\/p>\n But that mindset is both exhausting for adults and damaging for kids. Instead, try to think of yourself as a lighthouse: ready to illuminate the way when your kid needs you, ready to stand back when they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n On Parenting<\/strong><\/p>\n The Gravitational Pull of Supervising Kids All the Time<\/p>\n By Stephanie H. Murray<\/p>\n When so many people think hovering is what good parents do, how do you stop?<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n The Isolation of Intensive Parenting<\/p>\n By Stephanie H. Murray<\/p>\n You can micromanage your kid\u2019s life or ask for community help with child care\u2014but you can\u2019t have both.<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Lighthouse Parents Have More Confident Kids<\/p>\n By Russell Shaw<\/p>\n Sometimes, the best thing a parent can do is nothing at all.<\/p>\n Read the article.<\/p>\n Still Curious?<\/p>\n Other Diversions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here to get it every Saturday morning. In 2024, Russell Shaw made the case for the Lighthouse Parent. \u201cA Lighthouse Parent stands as a steady,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[9593,2318,9591,9592],"class_list":{"0":"post-16198","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-social-issues","8":"tag-intensive","9":"tag-parenting","10":"tag-pulland","11":"tag-risksof"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}