The perils of modern parenting - whatever happened to muddling through?


	The perils of modern parenting - whatever happened to muddling through?

Tri-City Psychology

10-11-2009 11:28 AM

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My first baby book...was by Penelope Leach

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Parenting is a word that wasn't around much when my children were small. It 
  was creeping in gradually – having arrived from the United States, like a 
  Californian hippy, in the early Seventies – but it was still being used in a 
  neutral, shorthand sort of way to describe bringing up children. 
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/6254187/The-perils-of-modern-parenting---whatever-happened-to-muddling-through.html">At that time, in the early Nineties, we had Penelope Leach to guide us, and 
  health visitors who advised on vaccinations and nappy rash.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/6254187/The-perils-of-modern-parenting---whatever-happened-to-muddling-through.html"><P>
Twenty years on, everything has changed. Parenting now means the art of good 
  parenting, and it's big business. There's a whole industry out there, 
  including television programmes, websites, magazines, coaches, classes, 
  institutes, academies and government guidelines.
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There have, of course, always been experts to tell you how to be a good 
  parent. But there have never before been quite so many. Sometimes, caught in 
  the crossfire, you feel like a small child being shouted at by a room of 
  teachers. 
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