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Originally Posted by RedPanda  As a parent, I read as far as these parts: 
By this point you've described a stereotype of bad parenting and claimed it applies to 'most' parents. Nonsense. Apart from feeling vicariously insulted, I'm unlikely to want to read further when the first part of your post is so clearly exaggerated and obviously setting up a straw man for you to subsequently knock down. Nor am I likely to recommend it to anyone else (not in a good way, anyway).
You may have some good points to make, but if you hide them in a forest of exaggeration, hyperbole and spleen very few people will take the time to find them. |
Unfortunately, if you are feeling "vicariously insulted" part of this must ring true for you. If you knew it didn't describe you I would think that it wouldn't emotionally trigger you.
I got a lot of comments by email from teachers who run education blogs and every single one of them agreed with me on my article. I am a teacher as well. If you are a good parent then I congratulate you, but if your career doesn't involve teaching and working with large groups of children then I'm afraid you really aren't in a position to comment on the "general" population of children.
Nothing I said was exaggerated. If your particular life doesn't align with my article then I applaud you. Until you can prove that the general population of children in the United States isn't as I described then I would please ask you to refrain from attacking the article.