I scrolled down to the bottom of the page, and there's a little ad to subscribe to Scientific American 'Mind' magazine. One of the issues has 'How to Raise a Ha

I scrolled down to the bottom of the page, and there's a little ad to subscribe to Scientific American 'Mind' magazine. One of the issues has 'How to Raise a Happy Child' across its front page, 'The essential guide to improving kid behaviour and resilience'. That pretty much sums up the impression I get from American attitudes to parenting and early childhood. Behave, be resilient, and when the time comes, take your measly week of parental leave to teach your baby to behave and be resilient too. Prevention is better than cure: the traumas of early childhood sow the seeds for a lifetime of anxiety and unhappiness. I don't really believe there is a long term solution to widespread mental health issues without concentrating on that fact, and enabling parents to provide the love, bonding and security their children require. But instead, in the US and here in the UK, we make parents' lives harder and harder (especially those in low paid jobs or out of work) and assume that an online course of CBT in a few decades will mop up any problems.