child-centered

People have convinced themselves that the good life consists of being child-centered parents in child-centered families.

While this is not true if you take a child-centered approach, the conversation has usually ceased by now.

Allowing risks and hazards is just as much a part of child-centered safety promotion as regulating and prohibiting them.

Children raised by child-centered parents seem at a loss when they aren't at the center of attention.

The whole term is ridiculous: > a more child-centered approach to parenting What other approaches to parenting are there?

Staff members are also setting up child-centered spaces in evacuation centers to offer counseling and relief for children and their families.

The Montessori Method of Education, developed by Italian physician Maria Montessori, is a child-centered educational approach based on scientific observations of children.

Along similar lines, you get exposed to a much more diverse community: the parents of your children’s friends, and various other child-centered communities.

Even if we assume that all of Piaget’s theories about developmental timelines are bunk, how does that invalidate the concept of teaching constructively in a child-centered, problem-centered way?

Mom-and-pop day cares exist in my area, so clearly it's possible to have a child-centered business without the backing of corporate lawyers -- but how big of a risk are they taking should something happen?

There is a lot that goes into this, and it can be parent-centered or child-centered, but having your child reflect on process and (ideally) implement some good processes can really set them up for later in life.

The author of the post is working nice hours a day so one can spend three hours with his daughter, it's a pretty big stretch to say he's "child-centered".

I think of Montessori as a smart middle ground between under-structured "child-centered" and over-structured traditional education.

It's also telling that the archetypal advocate progressive "child-centered" education (where natural consequences are good but authority is bad) was Rousseau, who never raised children himself.

"Because everything is child-centered today, we're depriving children of adults," he says.

Child-centered parenting is how you create spoiled, self-centered children that become teens that expect the world to revolve around them and adults that throw temper tantrums in traffic.