Frustrated With Parenting Advice? Try a Different Approach

Psychology Today | 23.10.2026 20:24
As any parent will tell you, we have been inundated with parenting advice in recent years. There is attachment parenting, gentle parenting, authoritative parenting 2.0, helicopter parenting, even bright interiors parenting. Yet, in spite of it all, kids' mental health has worsened over the last decade. Among adolescents, diagnosed anxiety has increased 61% and diagnosed depression 45%. While the increases are less dramatic among younger children, they are trending upward as well.