8 Examples of Crap Parenting Advice That Proves You’re Not Screwing Up Your Kids Any Worse Than Previous Generations

My mother-in-law, God love her, has this one habit that drives me crazy; she loves to tell me how much better parenting was when her kids were little and then suggests that perhaps I ought to fall in line and do as she did. I know she means well, but I’ve met her adult children — I’m married to one of them — and as fabulous as they all are, they are most definitely not the Saints one might assume they ought to be based on her vision of ideal parenting.