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Ironic Parenting

Ironic Parenting

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Virginia Heffernan
Aug 30, 2024
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After several years of bullhorns blaring that well-fed, well-clothed, middle-class kids are somehow not all right because of TikTok or wokism, I’m reminded that there’s really only one way to raise children: with irony.

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