Authoritative parenting, also called 'assertive democratic' or 'balanced' parenting, is characterized by a child-centered approach that holds high expectations of maturity.

(The time-consuming child-centered approach wouldn't have had a chance in the 1950's if affluence hadn't made washing machines and vacuum cleaners commonplace in middle-class homes).

This experiment led to her officially launching the Play School, which embodied a child-centered approach to education.

Recognizing that history focused on the adult world and that children were seen, principally, as future participants in that realm, Dwork sought a new "child-centered" approach.

Ubuntu's child-centered approach highlights the difference between merely touching a child's life versus fundamentally changing it.

During the 1970s and 1980s, Piaget's works also inspired the transformation of European and American education, including both theory and practice, leading to a more 'child-centered' approach.

Zirbes supported the child-centered approach only if the teacher had a good understanding of the skills she wanted the children to learn, and carefully lead her class in that direction.

The elementary and middle school program reflects the ideals of a progressive, child-centered approach.

She was an early advocate of a child-centered approach to education and parenting, and was also a suffragist.

In each period, she finds one leading advocate of a strict, parent-centered philosophy and a competing expert calling for a gentler, child-centered approach.