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lightreadsSimplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
3/5. A mild-mannered parenting manifesto about how to simplify life – stuff, schedules, rhythms, etc. A mixed bag, like most parenting books. This is part ‘well no shit, spending more time with your child will likely improve your connection,’ part useful, and part middle-class nonsense to solve middle-class problems by way of a large amount of additional work that we are selling as less work. More pointedly, if you are, say, working 2 jobs as a single parent and barely keeping everyone fed, this book is going to probably make you feel much worse, not better. Mostly, though, it’s funny to read this book in the year of our pandemic 2021. It’s all going on about how modern parents struggle not getting to see their children enough and I’m like *stares into camera*.
3/5. A mild-mannered parenting manifesto about how to simplify life – stuff, schedules, rhythms, etc. A mixed bag, like most parenting books. This is part ‘well no shit, spending more time with your child will likely improve your connection,’ part useful, and part middle-class nonsense to solve middle-class problems by way of a large amount of additional work that we are selling as less work. More pointedly, if you are, say, working 2 jobs as a single parent and barely keeping everyone fed, this book is going to probably make you feel much worse, not better. Mostly, though, it’s funny to read this book in the year of our pandemic 2021. It’s all going on about how modern parents struggle not getting to see their children enough and I’m like *stares into camera*.