A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each Myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents.
Parents are accused of being both permissive and overprotective, unwilling to set limits and afraid.
Somehow a set of deeply conservative assumptions about children what they re like and how they should be raised has congealed into the conventional wisdom in our society.
A prominent and esteemed critic challenges widely held beliefs about children and parenting, revealing that underlying each Myth is a deeply conservative ideology that is, ironically, often adopted by liberal parents