“When kids feel in control, they act in control”: Dr Becky reveals how giving children ‘ownership’ over their day can stop tantrums and even get you out the house on time

Parent sitting with their child.

Psychologist Dr Becky Kennedy has shared why she believes parents should give their children more control over what they do on a day-to-day basis, saying that kids who 'feel in control,' will 'act in control' - but what exactly does she mean? 

Parenting is punctuated by various struggles. There are the big social struggles like increasing childcare costs that are preventing families from having more kids as well as parental burnout, which is an increasing issue. But it's the more mundane, everyday struggles that parents also experience, like tantrums and school run meltdowns, that are the problems parents most immediately struggle with.