Talking Kids with Dr. Bob
My parenting interview with the Hamilton Review
Unless memory fails me, this is my first interview with a pediatrician. Dr. Bob’s Hamilton Review has almost 300,000 Youtube subscribers, and if you watch our interview on my Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, I think you’ll see why.
Enjoy!
P.S. A 15th anniversary special edition of SRtHMK is under contract. I’ll be writing a new intro covering international adoption, homeschooling and other extreme parenting, and replies to critics. If there are any good criticisms/critics you think I’m likely to miss, please tell me in the comments!
In Canada there is outcry about children being adopted from one group into another, eg indigenous by white parents, Haitians or Chinese by white parents. There are lawsuits and government reparations for cultural genocide and appropriation. Each year brings a new victim climbing onto the cross to publicize their crucifixion experience and trauma and demanding ...something, usually lots of money.
I am so old I remember when we celebrated that , say, catholic orphans could be adopted by Jews or protestants and then brought up in their new parents religion. Then we "progressed" to adoptive parents being reduced to some sort of long term care givers but open to losing their children who could drift back to their birth mother if they felt so inclined. Parental authority thus dropped to zero. In recent years a whole other wedge has been driven by the "gender is a choice " crowd. Courts feel free to deny parent access in these disputes, schools instruct children to lie to their parents or deceive other children's parents.
I don't think parents overtly weigh these sorts of things in the excitement of adoption/deciding to get pregnant. But there is an overall tone that the state is intruding into more and more parental decision making. No longer is intervention limited to abuse in the old fashioned sense.
Parenting may be more attractive when parents have more rights [not absolute!] . As a society we need to celebrate and promote parenting and families in all social classes.
Interesting talk. Would've been better if Bryan would just let the other guy finish his sentences before he starts answering.