I really hate articles like these. It's not really a shock to find that parents with poorly behaved children do not like parenting as much that those with well behaved kids do. My sibling tells me that DS is less demanding and less high maintenance. Yes, but we also say no, don't waver, set boundaries, teach values all while still letting DS know that he is treasured. If you don't do the hard stuff you don't get the benefits. the reference to Amy Chua was telling, you can debate her methods endlessly (and I think we did here
) but you can't debate that she put the time in and was consistent in trying to get what she wanted from her kids.
But the scientist in me is driven crazy but the faux comparative analysis. You cannot say that the middle class or upper middle class scenarios are equal when the french have universal health care, more vacation time, shorter work weeks and numerous other mechanisms which make life just easier all around. French families are not nearly as stressed about the things which drive american families to be stressed even before they get to actual parenting. The irony of this being in the WSJ!
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