Elizabeth Grace Matthew in Law & Liberty critiques the latest fad in child-rearing: “gentle parenting.” She argues against excessively elevating a child’s feelings while incessantly but ineffectually “helicopter” parenting. Matthew suggests that stewarding our children’s intellectual and spiritual formation demands real parental authority based on objective standards, with the goal of building our children’s relationships with the wider world.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
