Blake Boles
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817 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Feb 2019
last heard Dec 2022
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It's like a nuclear missile directly aimed at that assumption.
And what Deresiewicz says is that we have these two phenomenons in modern life, one of which is over-parenting or helicopter parenting.
And that's
You know, I think we're all kind of familiar with what that looks like.
And then he says there's overindulgent parenting, which looks like the parent who's way too lax and hands off.
And he says there's really a connection between these two.
They're actually one in the same.
And it's all about the overidentification of parent with child and the projection of parental needs and kind of desires for, you know,
maybe unfulfilled objectives for our own lives to be projected onto children.
Essentially, children are here to be our saviors, and they are the primary kind of spiritual purpose of our life.
And it's such a radical departure from how parenting was conceived just in the 70s, but definitely 100 years ago, where children were essentially looked on as economic assets.
And you go back even farther, and there is no single parent with an intense relationship with their kid.
The kid is being raised by all sorts of extended family and in alloparents, non-family or extended family.
And so...
What we consider normal parenting nowadays is actually a recent invention, which is called intensive parenting.
And I think it's at the root of the anxiety and concern that you describe.
There is.
You're fighting against a whole culture.
It's an extremely hard thing to do.
I think it gets a little bit easier when you opt out of the school system, but you're still there.
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