Tag: independence

Parenting: It Removes a Village In part 1, we talked about parenting as care-giving and values instillation. I went through some major challenges to parenting presented by financial limitations, time constraints, and un-restrained industrialization. In part 2, we talked about the War for Independence that has become an expectation for everyone in the US. Let’s now… Continue reading Parenting (part 3)

Parenting in the US: The War for Independence In part 1, we talked about parenting as care-giving or values instillation. I went through some of the major challenges to this in current US society through financial constraints, time constraints, and un-restrained industrialization. Today, I will focus on the biggie: the core American value that has… Continue reading Parenting (part 2)

The Transformation of Parenting It seems perversely typical for US culture that the hardest job out there is the one we either do for no pay or farm out to strangers. One we cram into brief periods of shuffling off to activities or dinner and bedtime. A job where the people who are most invested… Continue reading Parenting (part 1)