It's natural to try and blame poor parenting when kids don't turn out as well as we'd hope.
Even the research shows that intensive parenting causes kids to suffer.
But at least I know I'm not alone when I lie to my kids in the name of good parenting.
And in many cases, that kind of anxious, over-involved parenting can actually harm our kids.
It is kids who are shaping different norms of parenting and different kinds of care.
So even in the White House, the key ingredient is parenting and just making sure your kids are focused on school.
But one of the biggest knocks against tiger parenting is that it supposedly produces kids with no initiative or social skills.
"They have a different way of seeing the world, with their charts, graphs and deadlines, " says Patti Skelton, executive director of Youth Eastside Services, which counsels kids and parents on issues such as better parenting and preventing teen violence.
In the new era of helicopter parenting, more and more parents and kids are meeting up, and clashing, on Facebook, MySpace and other social-networking sites.
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She says that she only has real conversations with her child over Facebook and the phone (an improvement over the classic parenting problem of barely talking to your kids at all).
At the Yale Parenting Center, psychologists have found that getting kids to "practice" temper tantrums can lessen their frequency and intensity.
There are different schools of parenting when it comes to keeping an eye on the kids.
She's with the University of Texas and she did a study saying that style of parenting isn't really very effective and that those kids actually do worse academically and socially than kids whose parents give them more of a loving approach, as it were.
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