Where Do You Get Your Parenting Advice From?
As your kids grow up out of the baby stage into toddlers then the parenting issues can really start to take over your life. In comparison to dealing with a 2 year old throwing a tantrum walking up and down the living room for a couple of hours can seem like a easy time.
When you have children you need to make conscious decisions about how you treat them, it is far to easy to just react to whatever they do. By thinking about how you want to deal with specific things before they happen you will be prepared.
I have watched a number of the TV shows that feature a family in distress. I found that they were extreme cases and lucky enough my family aren’t so out of control that we need a nanny all the way from the UK to help us work out what is happening.
While some of the TV programs can be fun, they don’t go into enough depth to be of much use to most of us. Other than as a way of realizing that our kids aren’t so bad and maybe we aren’t doing such a bad job after all.
I have been lucky in that I quickly found a place where I could read the content and relate to it. I also like that I can ask questions when I am really stuck.