Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by autoexec on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:09AM (#43033820)

I'm not sure why the focus on "young" parents. Consistent parenting is very important at any age. Kids need their parents to be reliable and dependable with clear expectations and boundaries or things can get bad very quickly.

Inconsistent and unpredictable parenting is a common factor in children with oppositional defiant disorder and treatment often includes working with the parents as much as working with the child.

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by freddie_mercury on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:17AM (#43034186)

The word "young" doesn't even appear in the article, so not sure what you're talking about. The author never once mentions young parents.

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by autoexec on Thursday February 13, 2025 @04:56AM (#43034407)

> The word "young" doesn't even appear in the article, so not sure what you're talking about.

The title of the post we're both commenting on, which reads: "Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids". I was assuming that the title was oddly editorialized, but it's also not that uncommon for articles to change their titles too so it's possible that posting guidelines were followed and it was the article itself that specified "young parents" at some point. Considering the age of the article though, I kind of doubt it.

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by nmeofthestate on Thursday February 13, 2025 @05:46AM (#43034670)

It was posted by the author I think. I have no idea why they went with the different title. Isn't HN usually pretty strict about titles, to discourage clickbaiting?

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by _emacsomancer_ on Thursday February 13, 2025 @02:46PM (#43040415)

The actual page title "marshmallow test and parenting" is much better. The HN title makes it sound like it's only relevant to a subset of parents ("young ones").

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by dmurray on Thursday February 13, 2025 @03:11AM (#43033836)

This got me too, but on reading, it's clear the author means parents of young children.

Since the focus of the article is on child development, it's reasonable that it limits its scope to parents of young children, and not e.g. parents of 50-year olds, even if building trust might be nice there too.

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Re:Why young parents should focus on building trust with the... by desunit on Thursday February 13, 2025 @06:02AM (#43034746)

Yes, I mean every parent, but the whole post started with an observation of my youngest child and later expanded to marshmallows, culture, and so on.

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