Age-old? OK....
That we might create a sense of security in our kids by practicing “attachment parenting,”
What does homeschooling have to do with "attachment parenting"? Does this author even know what she is writing about?
They worry that formal schooling might dim their children’s love of learning (yet there is a flip side: a reduced likelihood of being inspired along the way by the occasional magical teacher, full of passion and skill).
LOL...yeah, you're right. Put 'em into the child-only prison system on the off-chance they'll get that one teacher that inspires them for that one year. Good plan.
But my husband and I are loyal to what we call “detachment parenting”: we figure we are doing a good job if Milo is just as confident and comfortable without us as he is with us.
"...because that's all we've seen and despite mountains of evidence to the contrary, we're going to treat our kids like employees."
Family for us is more a condition—a joyous one, for sure—than a project, one of several throughlines of our lives.
Sure, a "condition"--you know, like cancer.
Yet she wonders how kids who spend so much time within a deliberately crafted community will learn to work with people from backgrounds nothing like theirs. She worries, too, about eventual teenage rebellion in families that are so enmeshed.
Leave it to a psychologist to have the Dumbest Quote of the Day.
When I studied counseling in the 1980's "enmeshed" was a negative diagnosis and we would help people learn to be "unenmeshed!" (not really a work, I know)