[E. Pluribus Unum]

Damned Christians are the real problem, teaching their kids to rob, steal, cheat and kill.

If only we could go back to the good old days when there was no such thing as Christianity and people just instinctively knew the difference between right and wrong.

[ChocChipCookie]

What a crock of BS. The article makes it sound like the woman has personally interviewed prehistoric people. How laughable to claim that so-called cave parents didn’t spank their kids. What a riot.

[frithguild]

And this is how they will be all grown up

[Vigilanteman]

My favorite living economist and philosopher Thomas Sowell wrote more about this. He attributed much of his success (despite growing up poor and black in an era when discrimination was a real fact of life, not imagination) to a large extended family who gave this type of nurturing.

[a fool in paradise]

[steveo]

I thought they clubbed their women over the heads and dragged them by their ponytails. Again the popular media has failed me.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

In 2-year-old Nate Macauley's world, the arms of mom and dad — and a small cadre of family friends — are always available for a snuggle . . .

I got news for you Mom and Dad--little Nate is going to grow up to be a pansy.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Wow, the article is bulging at the seams with FAIL.

To start with, it is very correct that infants need a lot of tactile stimulation for their brains to develop. They also need very controlled amounts of other forms of stimulation as well, because their senses are very sensitive and can be overloaded. Bright lights and intense sounds can be distressing to them.

Children also need very established parameters around them, which works in concert with their strong imperative—and capability, to explore and learn.

At a particular time, small children should properly also temporarily *reject* coddling, because it is interfering with their development. And this means that they must be provided strong guidance, so that they do not blunder into danger while increasing their own abilities.

From there it is critical that they learn how to do things on their own, with little or no help. They must fail in this as much as succeed, so they can learn to adapt to failure, neither requiring continual supervision nor succumbing to frustration and quitting.

And this is when parents must back off, and let success be its own reward. No blue ribbon for second place. Rewards are for winners. Smart losers learn from their mistakes and improve.

[Howudoing]

Yes, but how did they know that? Whig cavemen did they interview or did they babysit their kids or something?

[dangerdoc]

Kids raised by stoneage parents never cut the living hearts out of their neighbors or ate their brains or pealed the skins of their living bodies or......

Nope those stone age societies were all peace, love and understanding.

[caseinpoint]

Balogna, high grade. Consider that even if a Stone Age human managed to survive to “adulthood”, I believe they died of old age pretty early, like maybe age twenty-eight or so. Kids became “adults” pretty early, with responsibilities we reserve for adults today going to preteens.

You can argue about what constitutes the ideal childhood but you can’t realistically claim the Stone Age folks got it right, not without some pretty hefty proof.

[pops88]

Is Darcia Narvaez still employed by Notre Dame after this ridiculous research and article? Where to even start....