This does seem a little extreme. I don't know many parents that are so child centric that they "have nothing left to say to each other". On the other hand if y

This does seem a little extreme. I don't know many parents that are so child centric that they "have nothing left to say to each other". On the other hand if you compare parenting in th 1970s there does seem to be something to the argument that parenting went from an occupation to a professional sport, where people compete at it. I object more to the tiger parenting where kids have to be at the top of their class, get in to MIT or Stanford, all that pressure. It's not healthy.