216. Are Parents Giving Away Too Much Control Over Their Kids' Health?
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The episode discusses the shift from parental authority to negotiation in managing children's health and daily routines.
Somewhere along the way, a lot of parenting shifted from leading to negotiating. We talk our kids into things, trade screen time for cooperation, and let the daily battles get decided by whoever has more energy that night usually not us. In this episode of Parents of the Year, Andrew and Dr. Caroline dig into a quieter shift happening in a lot of homes: the slow handover of parental authority. Sleep, screens, food, and movement are where it shows up most plainly but the real question underne...
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