Parenting Problems

This is a list of problems that people interested in parenting can think about.

• When a parent and a child disagree about something, what should be done?
• When a parent a parent and a friend disagree about something, what should be done?
• How can we parent without coercion or suffering?
• What do parents owe their children? What if children demand more?
• How can parents avoid teaching their mistakes and irrationality to their children?
• Children have a lot of ignorance compared to adults. What are good techniques for dealing with ignorance?
• How can a parent best help children learn?
• Many of children dislike school. Should children go to school? If not, what should be done instead?
• Some parenting techniques rely on hurting children, e.g. punishments, discipline, grounding, natural consequences, blanket training, spanking. Can we parent well without hurting children? How?
• How can children learn morality?
• How can children be free to question parental ideas without this resulting in them making large and easily avoidable mistakes?
• Why should one be a parent? What are the benefits?
• How can parents avoid gender stereotyping?
• In what circumstances is it wise to have multiple children?
• What if siblings fight?
• What if a child wants to be driven lots of places, and a parent gets tired of driving him around?
• Parents make parenting mistakes. What are good methods to discover and correct some of them?
• What if a parent is unreasonable, and child doesn't know how to communicate this to him? How can parent find out and fix it?