I thought I was ahead of the curve when I opted to read less how-to parenting advice and use my maternal instincts more. But for things like newborn sleep, toddler tantrums, my instincts have failed me royally. Turns out that in situations like these, nothing replaces the sage advice of a skilled expert. Resources I… Read More On intuition vs. experience
We’ve all seen the “perfect parent performance” before. Here’s why it drives me bonkers and how I’m trying to break the mold. More food for thought: “Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children…” by Katie Roiphe “Mother Madness” by Erica Jong http://www.simplicityparenting.com/about/thebook.html
We’ve all seen the “perfect parent performance” before. Here’s why it drives me bonkers and how I’m trying to break the mold. More food for thought: “Modern Parenting: If we try to engineer perfect children…” by Katie Roiphe “Mother Madness” by Erica Jong http://www.simplicityparenting.com/about/thebook.html
Why are so many of us predisposed to think that we’d be setting our children up for failure if we only have one? Here’s what happened for me when I started thinking that my first child might be my last. The article that inspired this vlog: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2002382,00.html More food for thought: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-08/osu-guw081110.php
My experience as a new mother has sometimes been how I expected it to be and more often alot grittier–which has led me to wonder, why don’t parents talk more about “the dark side” of having kids? More food for thought: http://nymag.com/news/features/67024/ http://www.twentytworeviews.bonniefortune.info/index.html
