Koala Parenting Sounds Lovely And Cuddly, But It Could Be A Recipe For Burnout

A koala sits in a tree at a koala park in Sydney, Australia, May 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)

It feels like everyday I come across a newly-coined parenting style, to the point where it feels difficult to keep up. 

There are the widely-spoken about ones many of us have heard of, like gentle parenting and helicopter parenting; and then there are the more left-field terms: nacho parenting, snowplough parenting and air traffic controller parenting, to name a few. 

If you haven’t yet come across the term koala parenting...