Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Being a Good Parent Is Wrong ; Lavish Your Offspring with Praise? Let Dad Share the Childcare? Teach Them Not to Be Bullies? It'll All Backfire, Claims New Research [Eire Region]

Daily Mail › September 28, 2009

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YOUR seven-year-old son presents you with yet another drawing of a dinosaur -- just like the scores he has produced already. Do you show him how to be more careful about colouring between the lines, or tell him that it's your favourite dinosaur drawing of all time, and what a clever, talented boy he is?

A few weeks later, your 14-year-old daughter comes home from school in tears, and admits that she's being bullied by some other girls. They call her names, leave cruel notes in her locker and make a point of ignoring her whenever she speaks.

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Why Everything You Thought You Knew About Being a Good Parent Is Wrong ; Lavish Your Offspring with Praise? Let Dad Share the Childcare? Teach Them Not to Be Bullies? It'll All Backfire, Claims New Research [Eire Region]

Do you say that she needs to sort this out herself; or do you hug her tightly and promise her that it will never happen again -- and you're going to make sure of it?

If you gave the second answer to both questions, you're a typical modern parent: loving, protective, and very involved in your child's life. You are also, according to new research, doing all the wrong things -- even if it is for all the right reasons.

Nurtureshock is an explosive new book which has already sparked a fierce debate in America by challenging many of our most basic...

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