“The parenting coach industry actually makes it harder for parents”. In his latest book Being a Parent in a Neoliberal World, Michel Vandenbroeck questions the new parenting based on neuroscience.

“For the first time since humanity existed, we are beginning to know better how to deal with babies, children and adolescents,” wrote French pediatrician Catherine Gueguen – very popular among parents – in Letter to a Young Parent in 2020. Unlike her, you think that neuroscience does not necessarily help to see things more clearly in education. For what? MICHEL VANDENBROECK.