Four reasons not to feel bad about ignoring parenting advice
01 Dec
Today Emma is writing about Baby daily
If you are a parent or will become one (really) soon, chances are that you’ve been offered parenting advice even before your children were born. Sometimes it is useful, and sometimes it is useless, silly and annoying. But every time someone makes you feel bad about choosing not to follow their advice, here’s why you really shouldn’t:
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Four reasons not to feel bad about ignoring parenting advice ……
If you are a parent or will become one (really) soon, chances are that you’ve been offered parenting advice even before your children were born. Sometimes it is….
Trackback by MePregnant — December 1, 2008 @ 10:00 pm
Yes, I totally agree. Parenting advice can either be misleading, annoying or just plain dangerous. But (yes, there had to be a “but”) I would have been completely lost with my daughter without all the advice I was given or read when she was a baby.
Sometimes we are so tired as new parents that we just want to be told what to do. Not all the time, just sometimes. It doesn’t take long to work out whether the advice is something that will be useful or not, and sometimes we can tell that doing the opposite may work better for us!
I read so many books and interviewed, interrogated and spied on so many other parents that I started up my own website just so I can share everything I learned before I forget it all!
BTW, I believe the warning on not giving honey to children under 12 months relates to the slight possibility of botulism poisoning rather than allergies. They’re immune systems are weak and put them at risk.
Comment by Nerida — December 2, 2008 @ 9:22 pm
Hi Nerida,
You’re right about being tired and wanting proven solutions, I totally agree, have been there so many times!
And thanks for the point about botulism poisoning, that is another reason why honey is not recommended for babies under 12 months that I forgot to mention.
Comment by Emma — December 2, 2008 @ 9:40 pm
I am Vincent from http://www.nextGenParenting.com and it is a website that talks about parenting the new generation. We found that there is a lot of synergy and relevance in both our websites and hope to be able to collaborate with you through a link exchange. Our Facebook Group is at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=45846456053
I was wondering whether you would like to do a link exchange with us, by putting a link under your Parenting Resources section and we will also put your blog link on our blog site at http://www.nextgenparenting.com/blog
Hope to hear from you soon.
Vincent Cheng
http://www.nextgenparenting.com
Comment by Vincent — December 3, 2008 @ 3:43 am