RE: Some parental advice from all the lovely parentals? Non parentals also welcome :D
December 9, 2015 at 11:42 pm
(December 9, 2015 at 11:29 pm)vorlon13 Wrote:(December 9, 2015 at 11:14 pm)Losty Wrote: That's not the way I choose to raise my kids though. I try not to ever say "because I said so". In most cases I like that my kids want to know why. I think questioning authority is a good thing. I want my kids to be independent thinkers. They're kids, so yes, a lot of times I have to overrule them on things but I want them to know why I'm doing it.
Rosemond is in the local paper every other Tuesday. No kids here, but the column is well written, and he makes LOADS of sense.
Get one of his books and try it out on the kiddlette for a couple months and see if parenting gets drastically easier (and the kid is just as happy/adjusted or even better).
I'll be sure to check it out. I doubt I will be trying it out on my kids lol. I've never really sought to make my job as a mother easier. It's pretty much all I have. So I put everything into it. Anything else always comes second to that. Some people think I go overboard with it, but I have really shitty parents and I want more than anything to give my kids the best childhood they could possibly have. I think a person's childhood greatly affects the kind of life they'll have as adults. My kids are smart, I want to nurture that. I don't like to make parenting decisions that encourage my kids to shut down their minds and just do whatever they're told. It makes being a mom a bit of a struggle but I think it's totally worth it.
