With the results of the school year about to be announced, Le Soir published some advice for parents on how to cope with a period that can be a source of great emotion. They also interviewed Stijn Van Petegem, a member of the SAFE-SORRY team. Those who are interested can read or download the article (in French).
- 24.10.25A look back at our Salon de la Parentalité
- 03.12.25Le Soir: “Living in the woods: escaping the world does not erase the law”
- 19.11.25ASPO 2025 conference (Maastricht, NL)
- 17.11.25L’Echo: “How to get your teenagers off their screens”
- 15.10.25New publication: overprotective parenting in Croatia
- 08.10.25Congratulations to Dr. Mathijs!
- 04.10.25Le Soir: “Between structure and kindness, the impossible quest of parents”
- 29.09.25New publication: parents’ worldviews and overprotective parenting
- 22.09.25Welcome to our newest research interns!
- 22.09.25Salon de la parentalité: “Being a parent in a changing social world”
- 25.08.25EARLI and IAP conferences
- 16.07.25Save the date! Salon de la parentalité
- 16.07.25ISPA 2025 conference (Coimbra, Portugal)
- 11.07.25Infographic longitudinal study
- 30.06.25Le Soir: “How to react to poor school results?”
- 25.06.25ESFR 2025 conference (Madeira, Portugal)
- 15.06.25Le Soir: “Why some young children need to see a shrink”
- 25.05.25BAPS conference 2025 (Brussels, Belgium)
- 24.05.25Financieel Dagblad: “Do parents protect their children too much?”
- 16.05.25New publication: gender essentialist beliefs and parenting
- 15.05.25PhD defense Elliana Lamprianidou
- 09.05.25New publication: Adolescents’ coping with overprotection
- 01.04.25De Bond: “Are we protecting our children too much?”
- 07.03.25Le Soir: “Teen sexting, as seen by parents”
- 04.02.25The new interns have arrived!
- 30.01.25NRC: “Let your child fall too”
- 25.01.25Het Parool: “Why parents are afraid to take risks”
- 22.01.25New publication: Parental representations and regulations of adolescent sexting
- 07.01.25New publication: intensive parenting among mothers and fathers
- 04.01.25De Standaard: “parents who think the world is dangerous tend to overprotect”
- 19.12.24New publication: “Love, money and involved parenting?”
- 11.12.24ASPO conference 2024 (Groningen, Netherlands)
- 28.11.24VNOP Research Days 2024 (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- 21.11.24Preregistration: gender inequality and parenting
- 11.11.24research visit Amsterdam
- 08.11.24New publication: pressure to be a perfect parent
- 21.10.24Preregistration: experimental study on adolescent sexting
- 21.10.24New publication: Group-based vs. individual parenting programs
- 22.09.24Algemeen Dagblad (AD) on mobile phones and “helicopter parents”
- 16.09.24Welcoming our new research interns!
- 10.09.24Welcoming back Gaëlle Venard!
- 07.09.24Volkskrant: “Becoming an adult requires young people to make mistakes independently”
- 04.09.24Call for unpublished data on overprotective parenting
- 02.09.24ESA conference 2024 (Porto, Portugal)
- 30.08.24Visit from Ghent
- 10.08.24New publication: helicopter parenting vs. overprotective parenting
- 05.07.24IARR conference 2024 (Boston, USA)
- 17.06.24Podcast: Eco-Emois
- 05.06.24Keynote at the Polish Conference on Developmental Psychology
- 29.05.24BAPS conference 2024 (Brussels, Belgium)
- 28.05.24job opening: postdoctoral fellowship
- 01.04.24New project on eco-anxiety
- 23.03.24New publication: overprotective parenting & identity development
- 05.03.24New publication: gender equality practices and parenting
- 19.02.24Women in Science day 2024
- 01.02.24Welcoming three new research interns!
- 24.01.24Exploring contemporary parenting: Insights from Italy
- 26.11.23Pop-up meeting: “Growing up and growing out?”
- 17.11.23Have we entered the era of intensive parenting?
- 15.11.23VNOP Research Days (Utrecht, Netherlands)
- 20.10.23A Swiss visitor!
- 09.10.23Samarbete med Sverige: Research visit in Sweden
- 05.10.23Welcoming our newest team members and visitors!
- 28.09.23The 4th SAFE-SORRY questionnaire has arrived!
- 29.08.23Conference: ECDP 2023 (Turku, Finland)
- 17.07.23De Morgen: “should parents be stricter in their parenting?”
- 05.07.23Conference: ISPA 2023 (Bologna, Italy)
- 28.06.23Conference: EASP 2023 (Krakow, Poland)
- 19.06.23Master thesis defenses: some preliminary insights
- 19.06.23A visitor from Georgia!
- 13.06.23Conference: ESFR 2023 (Roskilde, Denmark)
- 08.05.23Welcome to our visiting researchers!
- 06.05.23New publication: Overprotective parenting and social anxiety symptoms
- 01.04.23Third wave of SAFE-SORRY data gathering
- 24.03.23Conference: SRCD 2023 (Saltlake City, USA)
- 08.03.23Conference: ICPS 2023 (Brussels, Belgium)
- 13.02.23Le Temps: “The counterproductive fear of the teenager’s parent”
- 13.02.23Welcome to our new research interns!
- 16.01.23Preliminary results: Flemish data collection
- 20.12.22Preliminary results of the spring 2022 data collection
- 01.12.22New publication: parental overprotection in the context of pediatric cancer
- 27.10.22Season 2 of SAFE-SORRY now available!
- 29.09.22CIVIS meeting in Aix-en-Provence
- 26.09.22Le Vif (article and podcast): “Overprotected children: those parents who do too much”
- 01.09.22Welcome, Julie (and congratulations, Cindy)!
- 22.08.22SAFE-SORRY goes to Ireland!
- 16.08.22To endure or to resist? Coping with overprotection
- 25.07.22De Morgen interview: “Should we go back to authoritarian parenting?”
- 18.07.22Internship opportunities
- 24.06.22We’re hiring!
- 22.06.22Conference presentation: Perceptions of a dangerous world and overprotection
- 02.06.22New publication : Short scale for measuring parental overprotection
- 01.06.22Conference presentations
- 01.06.22Pilot study: Preliminary results
- 19.04.22Launch of two new studies
- 16.03.22Weekend issue in La Libre : How to not be a perfect parent
- 10.03.22Call for Participants!
- 02.03.22SAFE SORRY goes international
- 23.02.22Little children, little problems; big children, big problems?
- 14.02.22Welcome to the new research interns
- 09.02.22Launch of POPAY study
- 06.01.22New FNRS grant
- 01.12.21Two new publications
- 01.12.21Our team is growing!
- 27.10.21Opening of new research centre
- 21.10.21Official launch of our first study
- 09.09.21Family Process: “Putting parental overprotection into a family systems context”
- 06.09.21“Advances in the transition for 16-23-year-olds”
- 29.07.21Chasing Childhood at Docville, Leuven
- 06.07.21Pilot study
- 04.12.20Interview with Daily Science : “La surprotection parentale, est-elle le produit des sociétés inégalitaires?”
- 19.07.20Article in Le Matin Dimanche : “Surprotéger son enfant lui nuit.”