Interview with parenting expert – “Our intensive parenting style does not exist in many parts of the world”

Interview with parenting expert – "Children are made to be raised by five people together"

Why are parents from indigenous cultures like this relaxed? What can we in the West learn from them? To find out, Michaeleen Doucleff traveled halfway around the world with her little daughter.

Michaeleen Doucleff's book begins with a scene in her San Francisco apartment. It's five o'clock in the morning, Doucleff is lying in bed, exhausted and with greasy hair, and he can't sleep. She thinks about what lies ahead: tantrums, crying, screaming. Her three-year-old daughter Rosy pushes her to the limit every day. "I've never been so bad at something I wanted to be so good at," writes Doucleff, NPR's health editor and PhD in chemistry, of her qualities as a mother.