Parenting Expert Critiques the Practice of Leaving Children at Daycares

Renowned psychoanalyst Erica Komisar, often dubbed a ‘crusader in the mommy wars,’ has sparked controversy with her recent remarks about modern parenting practices. She suggests that parents ought to feel guilty for placing their children in daycare centers.

Komisar, a prominent influencer with over 300,000 Instagram followers, dedicates her platform to guiding individuals towards living their best lives and nurturing healthier children. Despite her supportive mission, she doesn’t shy away from critiquing contemporary parenting methods.

In her candid critiques, Komisar has labeled some modern parents as ‘p***ies,’ particularly targeting mothers whom she claims fail to establish strong bonds with their children. She expresses skepticism about the effectiveness of daycare centers, likening them to mere ‘warehouses for children’ and accuses mothers using these services of ‘turning off empathy’ towards their young ones.

Komisar’s insights have resonated with notable personalities, including Kourtney Kardashian, as she continues her book tour. Meanwhile, she remains an outspoken critic of certain childcare policies, particularly those endorsed by New York City’s socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani, which she argues do not adequately support familial bonds.

Komisar – who has worked with celebrities like Kourtney Kardashian – is currently traveling on book tours, while voicing her opposition to childcare policies like the ones promoted by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani is currently working on establishing free daycare for children from six weeks to five years old. 

‘We’ve told mothers, ”There is no discomfort. You shouldn’t feel any discomfort in raising children,” she told The Free Press.

Komisar would rather the government paid parents to be able to take care of their own children. 

Erica Komisar is an influencer with more than 300,000 Instagram followers who says she wants to help parents ‘live their best lives and raise healthier children’

However, she is also tough on modern parents, often referring to them as ‘p***ies’ and calling out how modern moms do not securely attach to their children. She also calls out what she sees as the inefficiency of daycare centers, saying they are merely ‘warehouses for children’

‘If you give some of that money – let’s say you give $20,000 or $18,000 – to the families to use as they see fit, they’ll find a better way to care for their children,’ she said. 

She pitches that the stipend would allow the families to either take the money and stay parenting at home, or pay a trusted neighbor or grandparent with the money to take care of them. 

Komisar said that if they go to a daycare center, they’ll only be taken care of by a ‘transient stranger’ who can’t give them the attention they need, because they have to care for so many children at once. 

‘There’s no way for one person to meet the distress of five or eight or 12 children,’ she said.

She argues that this has legitimate negative medical effects on young children when their needs can’t be met.  

‘Their cortisol levels are high, which it is not meant to be in those early years. And so a lot of those children go into silent mode.’

Komisar added that its hard for Americans to get on board with her preferred policies. 

‘The brand of capitalism that is American capitalism,’ she said, forces women into a ‘work at all costs’ mentality.

Komisar said that much of her book tours are in an attempt to fight policies like the ones promoted by socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Mamdani is currently working on establishing free daycare for children from six weeks to five years old

She has also angered feminists in the past, saying that mothers are told to ‘think of themselves first.’ 

‘Many people that work for me have tried to curb how I describe things but it is the way I describe things,’ she said.

Komisar, who is the author of Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters, took six months off after the births of each of her children.

She then returned to work for just one and a half hours every day.

Her new book, ‘The Parents Guide to Divorce,’ argues for parents to leave bad marriages rather than stay together for the kids.  

‘Although divorce is really bad for all children in one way or another, a good divorce, a healthy divorce, is better than a bad marriage. There are ways to mitigate the damage.’