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TerpPride said...
i think like anything in life, there's good and bad with the more hands on approach. I think generally, parents are trying to be available for their kids, I think there's a push to avoid latch keys kids or parenting with the boob tube. there are some benefits. Kids are expose to more things and for the most part are generally smarter at a younger at than before. but with all of this, there will be parents who have no sense of balance or control. Then you end up with needy kids with no sense of independence.
I think if you're younger parents with young kids, you may be more prone to others constantly critiquing or providing unsolicited advice, and eventually 90% of advice will be unsolicited. One of the worse examples of this parenting by village thing is these "Mommy and Me" groups or clubs or cults as I like to call them. Not all are bad, but from the examples I witnessed of certain friends' participation, they seemed horrible. I am 100% glad my wife was never interested. for the few women we knew who were in them, the annoyance level went up 100% as everytime we socialized with them, each interaction was another lesson in parenting as learned through the clubs. It's consuming and these women don't even realize how they sometimes transform into another creature. We had one friend whose wife changed their entire social agenda around the club. We were at an infants bday party last weekend and one entire table was full of these moms and all they talked about was babies and had no interaction with anyone else that didn't involve baby talk.
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