No Big Deal, but This Researcher’s Theory Explains Everything About How Americans Parent By Nicholas Day

New parenthood is a desperate search for certainty: When you start knowing nothing, you are desperate to know something. And when you finally figure that something out—how to get this creature to eat or sleep—that becomes the answer. Any parent this side of sanity clings to that certainty for dear life.

via Parental ethnotheories and how parents in America differ from parents everywhere else..