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A review by rereader33
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald
1.0
Another reread from my childhood. Boy was this a mistake.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is supposedly an "expert" in dealing with children, but all of her solutions boil down to "let the child keep behaving badly until it gets to a dangerous degree, then they will learn that their behavior is bad and change". Wow, amazing. How none of these parents figured that out is incredible. Pushing aside how asinine that advice is, so many of these "cures" could easily fall under the category of child neglect/abuse.
Speaking of the parents, first off, the mothers are the ones that always seek out Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's help, the husbands do jack shit. Cuz apparently in this universe, there are no single fathers caring for their children or fathers that actually give a shit about their kids. Gotta live gendered stereotypes!
This was absolutely terrible, but there's a part of me that's curious to see if they get better. Then again the bar would be so low going from here that any sense of improvement would be monumental.
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is supposedly an "expert" in dealing with children, but all of her solutions boil down to "let the child keep behaving badly until it gets to a dangerous degree, then they will learn that their behavior is bad and change". Wow, amazing. How none of these parents figured that out is incredible. Pushing aside how asinine that advice is, so many of these "cures" could easily fall under the category of child neglect/abuse.
Speaking of the parents, first off, the mothers are the ones that always seek out Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's help, the husbands do jack shit. Cuz apparently in this universe, there are no single fathers caring for their children or fathers that actually give a shit about their kids. Gotta live gendered stereotypes!
This was absolutely terrible, but there's a part of me that's curious to see if they get better. Then again the bar would be so low going from here that any sense of improvement would be monumental.