Millennials are more confident in their parenting than others

Posted on December 21, 2015

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A new survey from Pew Research Center found that 57% of moms aged 18 to 30 think they are doing “a very good job” at raising their kids.

Only 48% of Gen X moms and a mere 41% of Boomers say the same. Meanwhile, although just 43% of Millennial dads believe they have excellent parenting game, that’s a notch more than Boomer fathers (42%) and considerably more than Gen X dads (37%).

It’s true that older parents are more likely to have older kids and there’s nothing like a teenager to make a person question their choices and sanity, but Pew researchers said they adjusted for the age of the parents’ children. Specifically, Millennials seem to believe that they are both stricter and more loving. Given a choice, for example, they tell Pew they are over-protective rather than offering too much freedom. And unlike their forbears, they stick to their guns rather than giving in too quickly. They also believe they err on the side of not criticizing their kids.

“Millennial moms and dads were more likely to say they sometimes praise their kids too much,” says Juliana Menasce Horowitz, one of the authors of the report. “And that it’s extremely important to them for their kids to grow up to be ambitious.”

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