Reflections on poor parenting advice shared widely online...

Caroline Goldman wrote a terrible, authoritarian book called 'Go To Your Room' and claims that 'infractions' deserving punishment include things like 'emotional over-reactions' and 'refusing to say hello'... along with asserting that a one-year-old can remember the rules. 🤔 I wrote a blog about it a while back...

This photo reminds me of a 'send her to her room' story ... who remembers the story of the girl who cut up the dress?

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4/4

Starting today, I am reviving my ThriveParenting group as a place of peace and warmth for parents who need respite from the voices, and a place to talk about how others describe children and their motives, and to be further away from those who seek to shame parents who refuse –for any reason—to play along with the intensity of child hate in our world.

3/4

Filled with dread, I feel defeated, deflated, and out of energy to counter the WORLD of child hate that is tangled up in this, so common everywhere from children’s programming and books to ‘expert’ advisors, pediatricians & others selling fears to parents for profit, and the likes of Jay Leno encouraging parents to torment their kids ‘for laughs.’

The chorus of voices parents face is so uniform, so critical, so undermining of their love and their instinct to nurture their child ...

2/4

Scrolling through social media & parenting groups, I am overcome with a strong feeling.

Initially, I think it’s impatience: the same questions year after year, the same misinformation, distortions and fear mongering:

‘There is something wrong with the children’ becomes
“The children are wrong” which really aligns
“It’s the parent’s fault.’ –usually the mother.
It’s okay, she can blame her mother, and so on, up the generations...

...but it’s not impatience...

...it’s dread...

1/4

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