You think you're reading a really lovely and helpful book about child rearing, and you're feeling quite equipped and inspired to be a great parent, when suddenly it hits you that in order to have patience and grace with your offspring, you must first find patience and grace for your inner child, at which point you realize that Dr. Kennedy has therapized you quite successfully and you feel even better.
This historical treatise has a lot of notoriety but I found it unnecessarily dense, and ultimately flawed, in that its focus on states and state power ignores a related discussion of capitalist power, such that altho there is a useful perspective to glean here about how a drive for social legibility can transform a society, I wouldn't recommend the book overall.
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