Parenting Styles Across Four Generations
How the dominant parenting approach shifted as each cohort became parents, from supervision levels to what each generation was most anxious about.
Millennial parents document roughly 1,500 photographs of a child a year and hand over a first tablet at about three, where Boomer parents kept an album and Gen X parents put a television in the bedroom at fourteen.
Parenting Styles Across Four Generations
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