Child development psychologist Dr.

Child development psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax is warning that parents need to start taking control back from kids. Although their intentions are good, modern parents who want to raise children more gently and avoid conflict have begun to ask them to do things, instead of telling them what to do. Sax says this “collapse of parenting” it partially to blame for “kids becoming overweight, overmedicated, anxious and disrespectful of themselves and those around them.” (Maclean’s)