Modern Parenting Is DESTROYING Childhood - Nancy McDermott (#20)

Описание: 🎙️ “We’re Creating a Culture of Dysfunction” — Nancy McDermott on Children, Parenting, and the Rise of Identity Anxiety

What if the very way we parent today — hovering, curating, protecting — is destroying our children's ability to grow up?

Nancy McDermott’s journey from Park Slope mom to parenting culture expert reveals how the family transformed from a sturdy institution into a fragile vehicle for self-fulfillment. As gentle parenting fails another generation and schools strip away parental authority, McDermott exposes how the 1970s divorce revolution created a traumatized generation now raising kids in perpetual fear.

From birthday party invitations that require including everyone to teens who can't handle disappointment, this conversation reveals why modern parenting makes everyone miserable — and how we might find our way back.

👤 About Nancy McDermott
Nancy is an author, writer, and researcher specializing in American parenting culture. She is the editor of Genspect's Inspecting Gender Substack and an affiliate of the Centre for Parenting Culture Studies at the University of Kent, UK.

Author of The Problem with Parenting: How Raising Children Is Changing Across America (Praeger, 2020), she earned the moniker “voice of reason” as former head and advisor to Park Slope Parents, one of America’s largest online parenting communities. A mother of two sons, she lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she first witnessed the intensity of modern parenting culture among the “Type A driven people” who “couldn’t throw a rock without hitting a journalist or someone who’d won an Oscar.”

📖 Full show notes: https://stellaomalley.substack.com/p/...

📌 Chapters
00:00 – Trailer
00:51 – Why Nancy believes childhood has become politicised
04:40 – From self-esteem to self-identification: how parenting changed
08:33 – The roots of identity anxiety in family dynamics
12:50 – The myth of “neutral” parenting and its cultural cost
17:46 – Why adults stopped acting like adults
21:09 – When education becomes therapy
26:02 – Trauma narratives and the victim child
30:14 – How gender ideology capitalises on cultural dysfunction
35:40 – The case for reclaiming responsibility

🛑 Disclaimer:
This episode is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute medical or psychological advice.

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