does anyone else see this phenomena as kind of odd? Fifty, sixty, hundred years ago you didn't have fifty thousand pounds of parenting guides. Now you can't swing a dead cat without hitting some book about spirited children or how to attachment parent your kid properly or whatever. As if some guy who's never met my kid knows the way to discipline him.
The only parenting guide I've read is Dr. Spock, and that's mostly in a "what is this weird thing going on with Otto's eye" way. Whenever we get around to potty training I may look at a few, but for the day-to-day tantrums and the like, I'll stick with my own brand of "instinctive parenting".
I have noticed that when a SAHM is trying to make a WOHM feel guilty, she will do it by saying something like "My definition of a 'good parent' is one who is always there for the child" or "how can you be a parent if you're out working?"
I just snicker, because by that definition, Dad is just a big wallet and a BAD PARENT.