Commentary: From COVID-19 to parenthood, judging each other is back with a vengeance

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Just as new parents respond viscerally to others behaving differently, so we are equally agitated by those taking a different approach to the ...

Of course there is far more to it. The primary responses right now are driven by fear, anger and notions of fairness.

I remember the cult of Gina Ford, the maternity nurse whose regimented regimes and Contented Little Baby Book were gleefully adopted by a number of friends while we endured six sleepless months with the all-night party animal. I can’t say who was right. All the kids came out fine in the end. But both camps were pretty preachy at the time, as if we somehow sensed the other path was a negation of ours. It was not enough to disagree. They had to be wrong. Then again, perhaps we were just tired.But there is something of the same feeling now. The pandemic response has trained us to be more self-conscious. We judge and feel judged.

Sunset at East Coast Park on Friday , the first day beaches are reopened to the public after Singapore's COVID-19 circuit breaker.

 

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