Paying someone to sleep-train your baby while you vacation is everything wrong with modern parenting

Perhaps this comes down to the fact that American women don’t really raise their children in communities anymore. There was a time when generations lived in the same house. They handed down their knowledge, they helped when mom was tired, and they supported each other. We have become such an individualistic society that we have almost come to condemn that type of lifestyle. Maybe the fact that middle-class women are willing to pay someone to do what women have done on their own for centuries is a sign that we need to get back to embracing the idea of close families and multi-generational cohabitation.

I’m not saying there aren’t great things about our fascination with individualism, but we could probably use a better balance these days.

We love our children. No one else loves our babies like we do. We work hard to make sure they feel as little discomfort as possible, but in the end it comes down to how much discomfort we as a parent are willing to tolerate in order to do what is right for our children. That woman in Los Angeles who hired a sleep trainer was really saying that she couldn’t endure the discomfort of being the person to make her child sad. I suspect that it will be a theme in her life moving forward.

That, my friends, is how you end up with an entire generation of children who think they should be allowed to miss school because the wrong person won an election.