[jroseattle]

Thank you for the thoughtful response, but you reached your original comment because of the author's post.

In spite of your reasoning (some of which I agree with), my point is that we're guilty of another thing -- parental judgmentalism, in which we impart the thoughts of what we as parents ought to do in the general sense, but try to apply it on an individual basis. And we impart these thoughts onto other parents, which is both presumptive and unrealistic.

With sincerity, I would caution about projecting your individual thoughts onto others (i.e., we haven't grown up ourselves). I for one won't claim to have mastered parenting, but I don't feel that I'm a parental failure either.

Doesn't mean the overall societal comments you make aren't valid, just that suggesting the tome for all parents is bad ju-ju.