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

3.0

Honest and straightforward. It fails to answer the sub-title's question (or even proves that it is so). What Hodgkinson discusses instead is the achievement of a truly harmonious family life with speculation about its knock-on benefits for children. Harmonious here means neither the clockwork of fascism nor the down of indulgence. A highly desirable objective and an equally enjoyable guidebook.