I found this part of the review pretty funny:
"Shrier reserves her most scalding contempt, however, for so-called gentle parenting and its acolytes, the well-meaning moms and dads who have been snookered into surrendering their authority, never telling their children no. Instead of the crisp directness of “knock it off,” Shrier explains, gentle parenting promotes a feelings-centered approach, replacing punishment with “Why don’t we try taking a few breaths together now, Harper?”
The use of “Harper” is code here, of course, meant to invoke the type of namby-pamby elitist parent living in a coastal city who would name their kid that. Just in case we weren’t sure whom Shrier is referring to, she specifies: “If someone wanted to kill all human desire to reproduce—to achieve, at last, this thing environmentalists call “population control”—steering readers to the Slate Parenting Facebook group might be a promising way to start,” she writes. (I’ll admit that—reading this book with a review for Slate in mind—I did not see that one coming!)"