Center for Reflective Communities

Parenting did not exist as a concept until the 1970’s. Since then parenting as an activity of adults who have children has gotten more and more intense. Why is that? It’s because of economics. Today’s children are less likely to surpass their parents than in earlier generations. This article explains the pressures parents feel to try and ensure that their child gets ahead of the pack. Unfortunately this pressure to achieve may be reducing the overall well-being of children parents and families. Reflective Parenting offers a way to maintain a healthy life balance.

The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting Raising children has become significantly more time-consuming and expensive, amid a sense that opportunity has grown more elusive.

Too much screen time is harmful because it overstimulates the brain's reward system, in much the same way as drugs do. Now that the Silicon Valley Tech world is having kids, they finally have caught up to the idea that kids should be protected from too much screen time; and that very kids should probably have NO screen time at all.

A Dark Consensus About Screens and Kids Begins to Emerge in Silicon Valley “I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.”