And in many cases, that kind of anxious, over-involved parenting can actually harm our kids.

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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).

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But not so fast says Lisa Belkin, now resident parenting columnist over at the Huffington Post.

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Thankfully, when it comes to parenting, it's quality over quantity.

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Good parenting means not favoring one sibling over the other.

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Childhood is over for many children by the age of 12, according to members of a parenting website.

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None of these parenting patterns is encoded in our DNA. Mothering and fathering are different all over the world.

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Young women who climb quickly up the corporate ladder often must manage both family and career and those that opt to supplement their parenting with a nanny in order to focus on work are often looked upon as choosing success over children.

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Demos's study found bad parenting at 16 made children more than eight times more likely to drink excessively at that age and over twice as likely to binge drink when they were 34.

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