A review by secstraus
The Idle Parent: Why Laid-Back Parents Raise Happier and Healthier Kids by Tom Hodgkinson

4.0

I like the message to run your own race and make your own fun. Tom Hodgkinson invites the reader to follow or ignore his recommendations as desired. I’m going to ignore the bits quoted from men who abandoned or mistreated their wives and children and yet presumptuously gave advice on family life, like Rousseau and Charles Dickens. I agree with the idle parent mindset as long as it doesn’t involve totally shafting your partner. It doesn’t sound like this is advocated or practiced by the author, but it’s probably an on-going conversation about proper distribution and maximization of idleness.