Why shouting at your children makes you a better parent
We all feel pressure to be the perfect mum and dad, but it’s unhealthy for our kids – it s time we embraced imperfect parenting
3 July 2021 • 6:00am ‘Why do you have to give me your phone? BECAUSE I SAID SO!’ : Lorraine Candy with daughters Grace, 17 (left), and Russkaya, 18
Credit: Dan Kennedy
As soon as I’d done it, I knew it was unforgiveable. By the end of this particular family argument, I should have accepted my “worst mum in the world” medal and sat on the naughty step under a cloud of shame.
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Last week, the leftâs war on procreation was headline news.
In the April 29th British edition of
Vogue, Nell Frizzell wrote a pean to population control: âIs Having a Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?â â a shameless piece of virtue signaling.
Frizzell confessed that when she was pregnant, she âworried feverishly about the strain on the Earthâs resources that another Western child would add.â
The author went on to agonize about the amount of electricity her child would use in his lifetime, the food he would consume and what it would take to grow it â and how the future consumer would add to air pollution, global warming and depleted resources.
In the April 29
th British edition of
Vogue, Nell Frizzell wrote a pean to population control: “Is Having a Child Pure Environmental Terrorism?” – a shameless piece of virtue signaling. Frizzell confessed that when she was pregnant, she “worried feverishly about the strain on the Earth’s resources that another Western child would add.” The author went on to agonize about the amount of electricity her child would use in his lifetime, the food he would consume and what it would take to grow it – and how the future consumer would add to air pollution, global warming and depleted resources. It was painful to read and depressing to contemplate – that someone so indoctrinated in the cult of Carbon Footprints can display their ignorance in the mass media.
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Earlier this week, columnist Kurt Schlichter had a piece out there, Conservatives Need To Get It On. He has a point. The CDC just released figures which show that birth rates are down. According to the report:
The provisional number of births for the United States in 2020 was 3,605,201, down 4% from the number in 2019 (3,747,540) (Tables 1–3 and Figure 1). This is the sixth consecutive year that the number of births has declined after an increase in 2014, down an average of 2% per year, and the lowest number of births since 1979 (3,8,9).
There s more than COVID, though, to do with this consistent trend. As Janet Adamy with the