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> Having read "The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog", which goes into a fair amount of detail regarding attachment and attachment disorders, letting an infant "cry i

• paganel 4y ago
  > and speaking with authority that you don’t have. All of us have (had) parents, the majority of us have been raised by parents, and that includes the childless people. And even the people who weren't fortunate enough to be raised by one or two parents are entitled to talk about parenting, I'd say that they're even more entitled to talk about it.
  • remote_phone 4y ago
    What is easier, watching a movie or making a movie? Or do you think those are equal in effort?
    • paganel 4y ago
      The discussion is in no way comparable. If anything, you could say that we've all been actors, i.e we've al been kids, but even that seems a little stretched. Anyway, this talk of "it's so hard to be a parent!" mostly comes from middle-class well-to-do people for whom it shouldn't be actually hard to be parents, or at least not as hard as it objectively is to much poorer people. I suspect they're mostly doing it (the complaining, that is) as a social signifier, the same way that part of the same well-to-do middle class people used to complain until not that long ago that they're over-worked because of all of the emails.
      • remote_phone 4y ago
        You have no authority to say they are not comparable, nor do you have any authority to say that being a child gives you any insight on how to be a parent.