I think parenting 'experts' have always had to tread a very fine line, but teaching other women to parent like this woman seems to be almost a criminal act to me! People like this make me feel like getting violent. If enforced sterilisation was an option, these are the people who should get the first shots! Unfortunately I am seeing more and more people for whom parenting seems like an afterthought - whether because they are so ridiculously busy doing other things and pushing their kids to do MORE and BE MORE, like performing poodles, or because they just can't be bothered.

maybe an annual parenting 'health check' should be introduced to ensure that parents are coping properly with the changing needs of their family. Parenting classes seem to just involve the correct way to hold a newborn when bathing it, and assume that you 'get the hang of it' after that. Well clearly not everyone does. Difficult though because it's like interfering in domestic disputes, and where do you draw the line, how do you set up a 'standard' for pareting which all parents must adhere to.

I'm starting to babble now, so I'll stop - like everyone else this so-called Alpha Mom just makes my skin crawl!

Kerri.