I have read the book, I think he has some great ideas, but lacks understanding the emotional side of being a parent. I think having not had children himself, and the generation gap, he lacks a lot of perspective of modern parents.

It's cool, I have enough people telling me I'm a shitty parent, what's one more?

How can you make this comment and ask this question WITHOUT READING THE BOOK?!

Omg this book is written for people like you!

Had to google him .... Initial opinion is just another self appointed expert who is using shame marketing to make money from his outdated opinion.
He doesn't understand that every family is different and we're tired of being told we're not good enough but, hey, he'll fix us in 300 pages.

I bought a copy but I haven't read it yet. I'm really interested to hear what he has to say. I respect his education ideals and strategies, he's an intelligent man and a creative thinker with decades of experience as a teacher and principal, and has (step) children of his own too. I love the idea of his school that encourages kids to play outdoors, take risks, get dirty, build practical life skills, etc. He usually seems to have quite different ideals to the generation that he grew up in so I wouldn't throw him in a certain basket based on his age.

Read the book so you can have any informed opinion before commenting.

I find his perspective refreshing, personally and would like to read his book to see if it has things in there that would inform me better. You can listen to him being interviews on Abc postcasts under conversations. In another interview I saw him talking about how parents are so judgemental of eachother, are too scared to raise their voices with their kids because of the social masks we put on(he said it far more eloquently), and I appreciated that, as someone who disciplines my kids regularly I struggle with other parents who I know, who don’t at all.

Just another baby boomer wanting to remind us we are all crap. I can't imagine the book will sell very well.