December 2, 2010
When I wrote last week about Erica Jong’s essay on attachment parenting, a lot of people commented both here and elsewhere that one of the big problems in her article is that she confused attachment parenting with helicopter parenting. Certainly, the two are not the same. In fact, they belong on different axes altogether. While [...]
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June 6, 2009
There has been a lot of talk lately about bad mothers. Is bad good or is bad bad? I linked to one of the discussions on this issue in my post yesterday and the newspapers seem peppered with them the past few days too. I think part of the problem with the whole conversation is [...]
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