For millions of years people were living in close communities. Before you had own children, you saw it every day and took active part in parenting. That's a li

For millions of years people were living in close communities. Before you had own children, you saw it every day and took active part in parenting. That's a little bit different, from single child families, who see their relatives with newborns once a year. Not much chance to naturally learn parenting this way, until you are thrown in the cold water once it is your turn. For me it was fortunately easier, mainly because I often visited and helped with my siblings children as they lived close. But if they would have lived far away, everything would have been way, way harder. So formally teaching it for those who do not had that experience, makes some sense, I think. That is, until we find ways to be closer again by default. There is an old saying: it takes a village to raise a child. So many people bored and living alone. So many parents with no energy left to play with their children. It doesn't have to be this way forever.