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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is such BS, it’s not about intensive parenting. It’s about having two working parents required to just get by, and then really expensive housing which makes everything else harder to manage and afford. There was a lot easier lifestyle where without intensive parenting, when you had a parent, who was home to take care of everything related to the kids as well as clean and cook.[/quote]

It's true that everything is crazy expensive now, and things are easier with a SAHM, but activities were also more scaled back 60 years ago. There were no travel sports leagues or 3x week practice schedule for 7 year olds. My dad played baseball with his friends in the neighborhood after school. My dad's one extracurricular was boy scouts. Mom took piano, and that was her one activity apart from summer camp. Kids had more freedom and could roam around the neighborhood, walk to and from school, etc without adult supervision. Just eliminating pick up and drop offs would feel immensely freeing for most of today's parents.[/quote]

I let my kids roam around the neighborhood and park with friends. It really aggravates some other moms who text "letting me know". I really appreciate the extra eyes but they are so close, with friends and not getting into trouble, let them be.
What is stressful is the expectation from some parents that we keep them in or supervised the way they do, outsource the way they do and choose classes or extracurriculars the way they do. I thought that kind of behavior would end after babies (formula, sleep training, schedules, swaddling...) but it keeps going well into college choices.[/quote]

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