March 27th, 2008 - Idle Parenting

Planet Nomad has an interesting post about the article Idle parenting means happy children. The article doesn’t mentioned slacker parenting, but that’s another term I’ve heard for this same idea. Basically, it’s all about letting your kids be on their own and not scheduling them and planning their daily lives.

It’s strange, because I also really the idea of tomato staking children, which is the exact opposite. I have not, however, been able to implement it, probably because I’m much more of an idle/slacker parent. Maybe if I, too, had a dozen children and was a SAHM I could do it. (Katie is amazing and I’m really awed by what she does. I don’t actually think I could have a dozen children. I go nuts with just one.)

I don’t completely agree with the article. The manifesto at the end is interesting, but I don’t agree with the alcohol or lying in bed ones, and I’d not push the kids into the yard while I clean the house–the idle parent gets the kids to clean the house! But of course, that takes work to teach them to do so.

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