Translating Parenting Research Into Rules of Thumb

TRANSLATING PARENTING RESEARCH INTO RULES OF THUMB

(a) You can screw them up, or slow them down, but you can’t improve them – it’s genetic. So ‘do as little harm as possible’. Everything else is class-virtue signaling. Including all the parenting books – just fads.

(b) Who you reproduce with is more important than parenting.