Parenting doesn’t come with a manual—but some books come close. This guide highlights 7 insightful reads that offer practical tools, emotional wisdom, and expert advice for raising happy, healthy ...

Parenting is a journey full of decisions. Some are tiny, like whether a child should wear socks indoors and others shape their entire future. One of the most powerful choices a parent makes is how ...

That’s when clinical and developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind coined the three main categories of parenting styles, with a fourth being added by her later, in the 1980s, based on the work ...

In the 1960s, a developmental psychologist named Diana Baumrind came up with the first three definitions, while Stanford researchers Eleanor Maccoby and John Martin coined the fourth.

Although Ockwell-Smith has used the term “gentle parenting" for about 20 years, authoritative parenting has been around since the 1960s when developmental psychologist Diana Baumrind identified ...

A fascinating study conducted in the 1960s by Diana Baumrind, a clinical and developmental psychologist from the University of California, Berkeley, identified three main parenting styles ...

. Image from Adobe Stock; Globe staff illustration Six years ago, when their oldest child was not even 1, Kaitlin Fetzer and her husband signed up for a class on something called gentle parenting.

In the 1960s, psychologist Diana Baumrind identified three research-based approaches to parenting: authoritarian parenting, which involves strict rules, high expectations, and often harsh ...