Should I try the ‘18 summers’ parenting trend? Only if I want to ruin the school holidays | Emma Brockes
Long days with nothing to do is the whole point of summer. Turning it into a ‘making memories’ exercise is creepy and controllingThere are a great many things to dislike about modern parenting trends – take your pick from helicopter to snowplow to Fafo – but the least appealing, perhaps, is the temptation present in all of them to treat raising a child like an extended school project.The latest addition is something called 18 summers, in which clingy parents count…
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