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Economy causing parenting clashes?
I thought this was an interesting story. Has the economy caused more stress or clashes over parenting in your house?
Economy adds stress to clashes over parenting
http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/33617714/ns/today-parenting_and_family/
Meals. Bedtime. Discipline. The reasons parents clash over the kids are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through a second year.
Nerves are definitely taut on today's home front, compounding the challenge for parents looking to navigate and negotiate disparate views on child-rearing.
"I've never seen such stress in parents and families," said Michele Borba, a psychologist and mother of three boys who has written 22 books on parenting. "The recession is causing stress, number one. And number two, it's a pressure-packed world. Parents are very often at that level when they think being a to-do list is more important than who they are."
