Parenting IS Rocket Science

As the father of two boys and an author of a book on parenting ("How to Get Kids to do What You Want!"), I found this quote on the difference between procreation and parenting to be especially meaningful. Unfortunately, in my humble opinion, this distinction isn't shared by most people. In other words, the conventional wisdom is that once someone has a baby, they are by definition "a parent," and while this is understandable, I believe that this automatic status is responsible for much of the problems associated with bad parenting.