Their contrasting approaches elicit strong reactions because we envy their certainty of purpose
The real reason the parenting approaches of Allsopp and Burke elicit such strong reactions is less about disagreeing with them, and more about being triggered by their enviable certainty that they’re doing right by their children
We live in a time when the question of how other people raise their children is a matter of fierce and very public debate. From the age at which you yourself should birth them, to the age at which they should be allowed to walk to school, or get a smartphone , or start a skincare regime, there is no shortage of advice and opinions. Or outrage about those advice and opinions.
Ireland’s best known tiger parents were back in the headlines this week. At 9.15am last Friday, in a rural part of Co Westmeath, a father dropped his child off for the first day of school.The Burkes’ approach to parenting seems so far removed from the Allsopps’ they might occupy alternate multiverses, but it struck me after I read about both this week that perhaps they are driven by not altogether dissimilar concerns.
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