As parents, we sometimes mistakenly assume that things were always this way. They weren't. The modern family is just that - modern - and all of our places in it are quite new. Unless we keep in mind how new our lives as parents are, and how unusual and ahistorical, we won't see that world we live in, as mothers and fathers, is still under construction. Modern childhood was invented less than seventy years ago - the length of a catnap, in historical terms.
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Jennifer Senior
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All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
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What makes a mother? Looking at your child and identifying emotion
During childhood, it__ about trying to help develop who your kid__ going to be. During adolescence, it__ about responding to who your kid wants to be.
The author says that one of the difficulties of modern parenting is the uncertainty of what parents are preparing children for. In traditional societies this was clear, as parents prepared children for a society and for roles much like their own. She writes, "There is no folk wisdom.