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Gentle parenting is doomed to fail (parenting needs to get real about evolution) - C C - Feb 13, 2026
https://iai.tv/articles/gentle-parenting-is-doomed-to-fail-auid-3493?_auid=2020
INTRO: Children are active evolutionary agents adapted to extract the maximum resources from their environment, argues evolutionary psychologist Maryanne Fisher. She reveals why parenting fads like “gentle parenting” or “tiger parenting” that promise perfect harmony inevitably fail; and how we might better design social policy to support families as they actually exist, rather than as we wish them to be... (MORE - details)
RE: Gentle parenting is doomed to fail (parenting needs to get real about evolution) - Syne - Feb 14, 2026
Maybe eventually people will learn the repeated lesson that social engineering does not work. You cannot defeat the evolutionary psychology of nature.