{"id":12939,"date":"2024-09-14T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12939"},"modified":"2024-09-14T09:24:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:24:27","slug":"todays-parents-exhausted-burned-out-and-perpetually-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12939","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Parents: \u2018Exhausted, Burned Out and Perpetually Behind\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Parents\u2019 stress has become a public health concern, the U.S. surgeon general warned.<\/p>\n

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In his recent advisory<\/a> on parents\u2019 mental health<\/a>, the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek M. Murthy, said out loud what many parents might have only furtively admitted: Parenting today is too hard and stressful.<\/p>\n

Of course, there have always been concerns about families\u2019 well-being. And while some of today\u2019s parents\u2019 fears are newer \u2014 cellphones, school shootings, fentanyl \u2014 parents have always worried<\/a> about their children.<\/p>\n

So why has parental stress risen to the level of a rare surgeon general\u2019s warning about an urgent public health issue \u2014 putting it in the same category<\/a> as cigarettes and AIDS?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s because today\u2019s parents face something different and more demanding<\/a>: the expectation that they spend ever more time and money educating and enriching their children. These pressures, researchers say, are driven in part by fears about the modern-day economy \u2014 that if parents don\u2019t equip their children with every possible advantage, their children could fail to achieve a secure, middle-class life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This parenting style is known as intensive parenting, as the sociologist Sharon Hays described it<\/a> in the late 1990s. It involves \u201cpainstakingly and methodically cultivating children\u2019s talents, academics and futures through everyday interactions and activities,\u201d the sociologists Melissa Milkie and Kei Nomaguchi have written.<\/p>\n

But we may have reached a point, the surgeon general and other experts suggest, where intensive parenting has become too intense for parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Parents\u2019 stress has become a public health concern, the U.S. surgeon general warned.In his recent advisory on parents\u2019 mental health, the United States surgeon general, Dr. Vivek M. Murthy, said out loud what many parents might have only furtively admitted: Parenting today is too hard and stressful.Of course, there have always been concerns about families\u2019 well-being. And while some of today\u2019s parents\u2019 fears are newer \u2014 cellphones, school shootings, fentanyl \u2014 parents have always worried about their children.So why has parental stress risen to the level of a rare surgeon general\u2019s warning about an urgent public health issue \u2014 putting it in the same category as cigarettes and AIDS?It\u2019s because today\u2019s parents face something different and more demanding: the expectation that they spend ever more time and money educating and enriching their children. These pressures, researchers say, are driven in part by fears about the modern-day economy \u2014 that if parents don\u2019t equip their children with every possible advantage, their children could fail to achieve a secure, middle-class life.This parenting style is known as intensive parenting, as the sociologist Sharon Hays described it in the late 1990s. It involves \u201cpainstakingly and methodically cultivating children\u2019s talents, academics and futures through everyday interactions and activities,\u201d the sociologists Melissa Milkie and Kei Nomaguchi have written.But we may have reached a point, the surgeon general and other experts suggest, where intensive parenting has become too intense for parents.<\/p>\n

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