Sarah Schumacher
I have a vested interest in reading perspectives that differ from my own, and I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said that’s enough nonsense.
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now take ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness atom bomb from said Karen, and that’s just the preface.
She then extrapolates her hatred of therapy into one massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “makes them uncomfortable” or some absolute bullshit. Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. We like to cherry pick the one idiot (or take his entire statement out of context most likely) then? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class.
Again, one example, but all 100 or so pages I read were absolute nonsense. If she ever got around to making any valid points I can’t take her seriously because of the rest of it. Don’t waste your time with this rage exercise.
I have a vested interest in reading perspectives that differ from my own, and I was curious about the title and had never heard of the author… I made it 3 chapters before I said that’s enough nonsense.
Imagine if someone dared to ask questions or suggest a Karen’s kid might benefit from therapy. Now take ignorance, lack of self-awareness and defensiveness atom bomb from said Karen, and that’s just the preface.
She then extrapolates her hatred of therapy into one massive pile of bad faith arguments and calls it a book. Again, I only made it to chapter 3, so take my review with a grain of salt.
This book is a case study in how to cherry pick anecdotes. The example that sticks in my mind is when she mentions a principal who doesn’t want to take kid’s phones away because it “makes them uncomfortable” or some absolute bullshit. Point me to any single school administration official who LIKES kids to have phones in class. We like to cherry pick the one idiot (or take his entire statement out of context most likely) then? Ok, well I just read about a school district who completely banned phones. And my kid’s school has had to send emails saying kids should never have phones in class.
Again, one example, but all 100 or so pages I read were absolute nonsense. If she ever got around to making any valid points I can’t take her seriously because of the rest of it. Don’t waste your time with this rage exercise.