The new edition of the DSM, modern psychiatry’s bible for mental disorders, gives a medical diagnosis for what others just call bratty behavior. How parents can recognize the difference.
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AMSTERDAM – We all know that families today are no longer only made up of Mom and Dad and the kids. This has led the Netherlands to work on legislation that would make it possible to have more than two people as parents. Take Susanne Supheert, 25 – she has four parents. It was more […]
PARIS – In the U.S., they are called the helicopter parents. These are the hyper-moms and uber-dads who hover relentlessly over their children, transforming themselves into personal assistants on the weekends: driving them to baseball or dance practice, Chinese lessons, screaming at the math teacher who had the nerve to give little darling a B […]
OUEST FRANCE, LE FIGARO (France) Worldcrunch PORT-LOUIS – Twenty-three mothers of primary school children in Port-Louis in northwestern France have taken “parental involvment” to a whole new level. To collect enough money to send their kids on winter field trips, mothers from Port-Louis’ Transparents association have decided to organize a “sexy and glamourous” photoshoot for […]