Washington Post: This Father’s Day, I’m tossing all the advice I’ve gotten from guilt-inducing parenting books

By Neal Thompson

(originally appeared June 14, 2018 in the Washington Post "On Parenting" column)

With another Father’s Day approaching, I’m reminded of all the scolding, guilt-inducing, finger-wagging advice I’ve gotten across two decades of reading parenting books.

As the father of two boys, I’ve collected, read and discarded dozens of books, primarily those focused on three topics: boys, teens and drugs.

My kids were born in the late ’90s, before the Internet had all the answers. My wife and I...