To introduce you to the latest "Tiger Mom" parenting guru?

[JoanRanger]

It's too hilarious to NOT share:

www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/books/review/dalton-conleys-parentology.html?_r=0

Surely it's only "the scientific method" if he has a control group of children who are being raised by someone else? Ideally, of course, he wouldn't know which child was being raised by who, but that might be tricky from a practical point of view.

My child co-slept and has been camping and shit. Am I doing something wrong? He reads Mr Gum rather than the Iliad.

Indith did you give your children "distinctive" names, and I'm not talking about the "normal" Fifi Trixabel or Apple.
Do you buy them pets when you are on holiday - and then dump those pets when its time to come home?

If not I'm afraid you are doing it all wrong.

That must be it.

I'd bet my bottom dollar that he's horribly controlling. I don't believe he is 'laid back' at all. What child (unless they are seriously at genius level, and I doubt his are) wants to read the fucking Iliad? Even I don't want to read the Iliad.

I'd also bet that his child is in therapy by the time they are in college.

The great thing about books/people like this is it makes the rest of us far more confident about our own parenting skills, seeing as we're not as bonkers as he is.