Posted on 04/18/2024 10:57:44 PM PDT by ransomnote
Re: your “disclaimer” — love it.
Good one
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ThanQ, CTC, for all that you bring.
What does it mean to swim against the cultural current? Suzanne lays that out in her chapter titles: Live an examined life, prioritize marriage and family over a career, unleash your feminine power, date with purpose, don’t not have babies or not stay home with them just because you’re in debt, change your definition of work-life balance, learn the truth about daycare (that no one ever told you), and love your life, not theirs.
Suzanne regularly points out that women often clue into the importance of these feminine ways of life so late that it causes them some big regrets. That’s a big reason she does the work she does: to help women avoid regrets that often start accumulating in their early to mid-30s for suboptimal decisions in their 20s. If women in their 20s know they are likely candidates for such regrets, they can better avoid them.
It’s sad this sort of information has to be conveyed by a relationship coach instead of a mother, aunt, big sister, or grandmother, but that’s where our atomized society is right now. Suzanne capably fills in the big sister or aunt role for our society’s lost women.
...daycare is just about the worst childcare environment possible because it’s chaotic and overstimulating, prompting chronic cortisol stress surges that can trend small children toward anxious, moody, and sick for the rest of their lives. When momma needs a break, a few hours at home with a babysitter — even better if he’s dad or another family member — are far better.
Researchers are looking at tons of things to pinpoint causes of skyrocketing youth anxiety and depression, from social media to Covid-19 to sexual orientation to puberty and peer pressure. What hardly any have done is investigate further the research-indicated links between long-term nonparent care and lifelong chronic anxiety and agitation.
Perhaps the most striking results surfaced in Quebec, which opened a universal birth-to-school government daycare program a generation ago. Researchers found that, as adults, the kids who attended the program are significantly more anxious and depressed and less self-controlled and happy than kids who didn’t. Multiple studies have found similar results.
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