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But for her, “authoritative” parenting somehow involves mutely absorbing physical abuse from her three-year-old daughter, Rosy: “Eventually, her tantrums turned nuclear. She’d bite, flail her arms, and start running around the house upturning furniture.”[21] When Doucleff tries to pick Rosy up during her tantrums, “she had the habit of slapping me across the face. Some mornings, I left the house with a red handprint across my cheek.” (Reading that, I could only hope that one day, Rosy and Raffi fall in love and give us the Netflix special we deserve.)
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