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Parenthood, we are told, requires a massive adjustment to our lives, emotions, and relationships, and we have to be taught how to deal with that. But can it really be so bad that we need constant counselling and parenting classes? It is a myth that today's parents are hopeless and lazy: in many ways, we have become too diligent, too hopeful of great outcomes and clear rewards, to the point where we lose ourselves in trying to provide some kind of professional service to our children. The current obsession with perfect parenting increases our insecurity and distrust of each other, and diminishes our authority over our kids. This book is about asking: Why have we invited Supernanny into our living rooms - and how can we kick her out? Jennie Bristow is a journalist whose writing focuses on parenting issues and inter-generational relations. She writes the monthly "Guide for Subversive Parenting" for the online publication SPIKED, and runs the website named parentswithattitude.
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Jennie Bristow is a journalist whose writing focuses on parenting issues and inter-generational relations. She writes the monthly "Guide for Subversive Parenting" for the online publication SPIKED, and runs the website parentswithattitude.com.
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This book is a great read and very thought provoking, made immediate through a wide variety of examples of the way parenthood is being weakend as a process and relationship through a plethora of external influences, and how these are being increasingly internalised. Although my wife and I don't have any children of our own, we have many friends who do and have a relatively relaxed approach to looking after their children from time to time. Over the last few years though, we've become increasingly aware of the barriers being put in place to make that relaxed and spontaneous involvement in other childrens lives more awkward. Reading this book made sense of the changes taking place with our friends as they try and steer their way through a more distrustful world, and that it wasn't something isolated to our own friends but is more broad across society.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone concerned with making sense of our changing world.
I would highly recommend this book for anyone concerned with making sense of our changing world.
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