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That’s another thing about these reports, for parents handling the day to day reality of kids, their findings are infuriatingly vague.

Imperfections are what make us human.ĭo parenting studies make you feel like a bad mother? We’ve been there, too. I can’t imagine anything worse or more damaging than having a perfect parent. The road to hell, as they say, is paved with good intentions.įrankly, until there are perfect parents there will never be perfect parenting.

That doesn’t mean there are not teachers who get in the way of their students learning or that parents never do any harm. Just like I’ve never seen a teacher who actively wanted to stop students learning, so I have never seen a parent who set out to emotionally, psychologically or physically harm their child. We all start out trying to be the very best parents we can. “They f**k you up your mum and dad, they don’t mean to but they do.” – Phillip Larkin

Jane Caro writes about such ‘research’ scaring parents into believing they don’t really know what they’re doing.

Earlier today, The Australian published an article titled ‘Angry parents at fault for troubled kids’.