I have a neuroscience background – that's what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

I have a neuroscience background – that's what my doctorate is in – and I was trained to study hormones of attachment so I definitely feel my parenting is informed by that.

Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

Parenting as an unpaid occupation outside the world of public power entails lower status less power and less control of resources than paid work.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys not the hassles the love not the disappointments the common sense not the complexities.

We must return optimism to our parenting. To focus on the joys not the hassles the love not the disappointments the common sense not the complexities.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale New York society woman best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your Own Way: An Informal Guide for Teen-Agers' – this despite being a person whose parenting style made Joan Crawford's wire hangers look like pool noodles.

Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

Ah the power of two. There's nothing quite like it. Especially when it comes to paying utility bills parenting cooking elaborate meals purchasing a grown-up bed jumping rope and lifting heavy machinery. The world favours pairs. Who wants to waste the wood building an ark for singletons?

While not impossible it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

While not impossible it is especially challenging for teenage parents to develop bonds with their children. A high percent of them were themselves children of teenage parents and have never experienced appropriate parenting.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008 we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune we called it a 'moral hazard' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.

Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008 we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune we called it a 'moral hazard' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again.