Zoe Williams: the madness of modern parenting | Books | The Guardian - http://www.theguardian.com/books...
Dec 6, 2014
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"Plainly, something is up with the business of parenting, the way we parent, the things that are now perceived as minimum parenting standards. The fact that I’m conjugating the word at all, that it has become an activity rather than a relationship, indicates the extent to which it now amounts to a set of skills, techniques, rules; it has become something that one does well or badly, the judgment of which is determined by yardsticks that claim, via medicine or neuroscience, to be definitive, yet are one titchy study from the University of Utah away from refutation. The atmosphere is febrile with disapproval: all normal under–standing of acceptable risk, never mind the understanding that behaviour might reasonably differ from one individual to another, is suspended."
- Maitani