My previous column concerned so-called “gentle" parenting, which is naught but a retreading of the parenting propaganda that has gushed relentlessly from the mental health professional community since the late 1960s. When the propaganda began, the aim was two-fold: first, to demonize and delegitimize parental authority; second, to create families in which children ruled and, as such, possessed a “right” of some strange sort to express their feelings freely. If you haven’t noticed, good parenting is now defined as properly understanding and responding to your child’s feelings.