What ‘stranger things’ can teach us about parenting
What ‘stranger things’ can teach us about parenting
- September 28, 2016
- Research by social scientists Ashley Thomas (cog sci), Barbara Sarnecka (cog sci) and Kyle Stanford (LPS) in Psych Central, Sept. 28, 2016
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Recent research from the University of California, Irvine suggests that as a culture, we have become increasingly focused on supervising children… all the time. The new study finds that, as a culture, we now consider leaving children unsupervised to be “morally” wrong, regardless of how much risk the alone-time presents to children. And, we base the risk on how morally wrong we consider the lack of supervision to be.
For the full story, please visit http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/09/28/what-stranger-things-can-teach-us-about-parenting/.
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