My partner and I keep having the same fight about screen time with our kids and I realize it's not actually about the devices — it's that watching them scroll brings up all my anxiety about whether I'm raising them to handle the world or hide from it, and we've never talked about what we're actually afraid of.
More people experience this than they realize.
Surface disagreements about parenting often mask unexamined fears about what kind of people you're raising and what kind of world you're preparing them for.
“Where Are You with The parent's inner life — what children bring up?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.