ROOKE: Raising The Next Generation … To Be Disabled |
ROOKE: Raising The Next Generation … To Be Disabled
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Welcome back to Good Life, a newsletter about navigating our modern culture and staying sane in the process. This week, we discuss how parents are actively making their children’s lives worse.
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I think the hardest pill for parents to swallow is the reality that their children’s behavior is directly connected to their parenting choices. At the most basic level, their views on morality, modesty, and human dignity all come from your example. But it’s more than that.
Jo Frost, aka Supernanny, released a video warning parents that they are disabling their children’s independence.
“We are slowly disabling our children, and I don’t say that lightly. I say that because I work with families continuously every day, and I am seeing a pattern that is growing. Children who are capable but not being taught,” Frost said.
“We are pushing children along on bikes instead of teaching them how to ride them. We’re keeping children in strollers, who should be walking, climbing, building strength. We’ve got four-year-olds still using dummies [pacifiers], when that was only ever meant to be a short-term aid. Seven-year-olds who can’t brush their teeth properly without an........