Maybe we could learn something from the Slacker Mom

There's a new book on parenting called "Confessions of a Slacker Mom" (Muffy Mead-Ferro) in which the premise is that the "experts" have made the stakes of parenting extremely high and social competition is actually driving the parenting bus in our culture...not so much love, but rather fear, I suppose. Sounds like a good summer read to me.

Anyway, she said in an interview that she felt all the lessons and involvements children are doing has a long-term effect: That children don't have free time which is valuable in learning to think for themselves.

Seems to me, that's the most important thing we can teach our children. Teaching them to think for themselves. Why does that scare most parents so much?