![]() But that was it: “Hurry up! You’re making us late!” As someone whose morning exercise takes the form of a power struggle over when and under what circumstances my five-year-old will put down his trains, put on his shoes, and leave for school, I knew, reading Delahooke, that I had entered a reality-distortion field, but I wasn’t sure which one of us was the agent of distortion.ĭelahooke’s recommendations in “Brain-Body Parenting” hew closely to the child-rearing philosophy commonly known as “gentle parenting,” which has been the vogue among vigilant, trend-aware P.M.C. I skimmed ahead for further disclosures of Delahooke’s authoritarian tendencies. I went back and reread the paragraph from the beginning. “When my body budget was in a deficit,” she writes, “I’d sometimes say things I later regretted, projecting my own lack of internal resources onto my kids: ‘Hurry up! You’re making us late!’ ” Stress and exhaustion, she goes on, “turned me into an authoritarian and controlling mom.” She recalls a time when her three daughters were young and she often felt overwhelmed. ![]() Not far into her new book, “ Brain-Body Parenting” (Harper Wave), the child psychologist Mona Delahooke makes a confession.
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