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Interesting. Indeed "rational parenting" should be only "parenting". My first though was to argue that "rational parenting" is becoming a construction (via usage in prior posts) of a certain (class of) parenting style. But that wouldn't be right, so I fixed it.
Perhaps 'Optimal Parenting' or 'Evidence-Based Parenting' or just a normal parenting guide without any rational buzzwords.
"Evidenced-based" is IMO even worse than "rational."
If I see a title with 'evidence-based' in it, I have a good guess at what sort of methodology and epistemology I expect to see in it: systematic review with a focus on randomized trials & meta-analyses. This gives me a good start at interpreting it (positive results should be taken seriously, but nulls are not very informative because typically there is little acceptable data; cost-benefit reasoning will likely not be included).
While if a title includes 'rational' in it...
Erm, yes I think so too, I don't know why I offered that. I'm retracting the whole comment, it seems unnecessary.