“Snowplows,” “tigers,” “Ghettossori”. Behind these appealing metaphors lies a flood of demands weighing on parents’ shoulders. Science invites us to take a more nuanced view: there is no single instruction manual, “only” a balance to be found and reinvented between structure and kindness.”
Every Saturday from September 27 to November 15, Le Soir is publishing a survey on the lives of today’s parents. In this week’s article, they interviewed Stijn Van Petegem, as well as our colleagues Isabelle Roskam and Moïra Mikolajczak (UCLouvain), about parental overprotection and the demands and pressures of being a perfect parent.