LONDON TIMES: Why You Should Be a Dolphin Parent

Barbara McMahon | September 21, 2013 Playful parents make for smarter, happier children, according to new research.   Amy Chua’s provocative memoir described a strict method of raising children known as  Tiger parenting. The Yale law professor recalled how she rejected her 4yearold daughter Lulu’s homemade birthday card for being carelessly drawn, threatened to burn her older daughter Sophia’s stuffed animals if she did not improve her piano playing, and never accepted grades…

LONDON TIMES: My week being a playful father: a dolphin dad

Phil Robinson | September 21, 2013 The summer holidays dragged like a ball and chain and I resorted to preemptive yelling, mostly “No!”, at any request of my sons Caspar, 6, Conrad, 8, and Oscar, 11. By early September, I was keeping a criminal record for each child in my head. I exploded at the smallest infraction. I had rules for just about everything. Parenting…