This post says that in Stef's podcast (mentioned in the post) he asserts that the toddler's rebellion (the terrible two's) is in response to some sort of parental abuse before the toddler is aware of that abuse taking place. Now Stef is going to rewrite child psychology!

http://freedomainradio.com/board/forums/t/20596.aspx

Nope. Not a bit. But what will he say if his daughter displays a period of rebellion as a toddler?

Interesting that there are no responses to this post over there. Could it be that they all know this is ridiculous? Nah. Probably not. It's more likely that noone wants to cross what Stef said, so they don't know what to say.

Here are some possible reasons why there are no responses:

Maybe the podcast is no longer available. The number looks quite old. Things do disappear from that site sometimes.

Maybe they have no awareness of toddlers. They are too busy cooing over the latest pictures of baby Molyneux.

Maybe the post is surrounded by virtual hazard tape with a sign saying Do Not Enter This Zone. The poster has dared to challenge Stef and Dave Bockman in the past. FDR members may want to avoid engaging with such a dangerous person especially as he has been away for months and has mentioned the media coverage.

But, hey, what do I know, I'm just someone on the internet, right?

I think I heard that podcast, because I listened to several (or parts of several) about women and children. If it's the toddler one I am thinking of, it's not actually about toddlers at all. He says he's going to discuss toddlers but really only talks about himself--probably because he really knows nothing about toddlers. There was a series of three podcasts on childhood; this was the second one. The first was about infants, which he referred to frequently in the toddler one.

I always got the podcasts from iTunes, and it's in Volume 1 (Number 90, February 7, 2006) and still available.

It is certainly true that Molyneux's rambling sessions are long, disorganized, and tend to lead his listeners in numerous directions.

I think btw that the # of defoo'ers has gone up significantly since the media publications of last year. My rough estimate is that there are about 15 or 20 more now (or at least 15 or 20 more than the number Stefan cited in the interviews)

in total perhaps a realistic current estimate of the defooers among the people who have been active on the board (thus not including listeners who have not been active on the board or whose defoo has never been discussed on the board) is more than 60. I have not seen all of them, but suppose I saw half of the references to defooes on the board (and I only check a small number of threads, and don't have access to the Premium board) then that alone times two (if I only saw half of them) would already be about 80 people

Yes indeed. It wouldn't surprise me if that number were on the conservative side.