The author, after a challenging pandemic experience, moves to Singapore to embrace communal parenting with friends. This decision alleviates the burdens of solo parenting through shared responsibilities like meals and childcare, resulting in increased happiness and reduced stress. It challenges traditional norms around parenting, suggesting that collaboration among adults can lead to better outcomes for children. The author's explorations into cultural differences in child-rearing inform her book, "Please Yell at My Kids," which highlights practical parenting hacks from various backgrounds.
I quickly realized that communal parenting isn't radical; it's practical. I could feel the weight lift as I unlocked the door to their apartment after a long day of work each evening.
The experience had me questioning the norms I grew up with: that parenting is a job best left for, well, parents, and that protecting my kids meant keeping them away from anyone whose parenting style I disagreed with.
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