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Reply to "NYT The Daily: The Parents Aren't All Right"
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[quote=Anonymous]Also, parents are expected to be so perfect now. Growing up in the 70s and 80s, if I screwed up, I got yelled at and told I was being an idiot. If I was really really bad, I would get spanked. I’m not saying that I support that approach, but now we tell parents you can’t spank your kids, you shouldn’t yell at them, you shouldn’t tell them that they are idiots, etc.—you just need to establish conditions under which they can thrive and engage in a reasonable discourse with tjhem about how they can meet those expectations, enforcing fair and consistent consequences for undesired behavior. That is waaaay harder than the old “Just wait until your father gets home!” Model of parenting. Of course it’s stressful — it’s a lot of work to parent that way![/quote]
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