“Supernanny” Jo Frost has been looked to as a guiding light for all things child-rearing since her hit television show, which featured her helping parents with their unruly children — and now she’s sounding the alarm.
“We are slowly disabling our children,” she said in a post on social media. “And I don’t say that lightly. I say that because I work with families continuously, every day, and I’m seeing a pattern that’s growing.”
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That pattern is “children who are capable but not being taught.”
“Every time we step in and do it for them or avoid teaching because it’s slower, messier, or inconvenient, we take away an opportunity for them to become capable, and children want to feel capable,” she said, explaining that parents need to “go
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