The Daily: The Parents Aren’t Alright - Link
My crummy tl;dr - Intensive parenting and social media parenting shit making us feel guilty for everything. Previous generations parenting was going about life with the kid doing whatever on their own. Now we are on the floor with them always in their business thinking and preparing ten steps ahead
I’m curious what parents of kids 5+ think of this. At one point in the podcast, someone says, “Bigger kids, bigger problems is what they say. It becomes less physically demanding, but it’s more mentally demanding.”
My kids are 4 and under, so I’m definitely in a phase where they are physically demanding.
I feel like you are dealing with a lot of influencers trying to justify single income families where the mom stays home. A lot of that justification comes from being a stay-at-home mother who can give better care to their children. So the standard of parenting gets raised such that parenting is a full time job.