Proposed: The primary reason so many of today’s mothers are so very stressed by child rearing — something their grandmothers, for the most part, approached fairly nonchalantly — is because they do something their grandmothers did not do: they read parenting columns, magazines, and books. And yes, I’m well aware of the irony here. Men, with very rare exception, do not read parenting materials.
Living with Children with John Rosemond: Cut stress and drop parenting magazines


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