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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Part of the problem here is that many older people selectively forget all the hardest parts of parenting (especially really little kids) as well as all the imperfect parenting they did. They just remember this rosy fake past where children simply did what they were told at all times (from infancy) and never cried or were loud or whined or argued and where they were just ideal parents who never yelled (or worse) or used a parenting short cut or whatever.

When people with these extremely well-edited memories of parenthood give advice or inject themselves into parenting situations it's always total BS because they are just not acknowledging like 90% of what parenting is. It's based on a lie.[/quote]

Also, kids actually used to behave better, self-regulate better, comply better.  Kids these days have poorer fine motor skills than previous generations, have poorer self-regulation.  Etc.

Is it because of poor sleep/back to sleep and developmental delays?  Is it because of gentle parenting/lack of spanking?  Is it because of screens?  Is it the chemicals in the water?  Is it something else?  Who knows?  But it's documented.  [/quote]

Where is it documented -- genuinely asking. [/quote]

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