I think I’ve heard it all. It seems you can take any position nowadays, no matter how crazy or usual it sounds and sell it to a world of impressionable and desperate people. Advocating a more lazy, hands-off approach to parenting is certainly unconventional. The claim that families are suffering from “family fatigue” just seems odd:
Children need time and space just to play and to be – if not they’ll end up psychologically damaged and useless, says a British parenting writer and philosopher.
Tom Hodgkinson is author of The Idle Parent, a book that encourages parents to adopt a hands-off approach so that their children become more self-reliant and capable.
… the less free time parents allocate to their children, the more anxious parents seem to become.
Rather than ferrying kids to music lessons, sports games and playgroups, it seems we should be saving our energy and staying at home, dragging out the dress-up or craft box, or sending the kids out into the backyard.
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