Parenting is…

Bed time routine is lauded by experts as a solution to all sleep problems. Set up a routine, put the baby on a schedule, be firm and consistent; never allow the baby to manipulate you - and you won’t have problems with your infant or toddler, not even through the school years. I don’t believe it’s a sound advice. Often, it is an insult to exhausted parents whose little one seems to defy the idea each time they settle in and feel like *now* they’ve got the sleep thing figured out. I’d like to share with my fellow parents my thinking on bedtime routine.

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Parenting and patience go hand-in-hand, common knowledge says. I say, successful parenting has little to do with patience and if it did, I would be a dramatic failure. If you are the impatient type, check out a better strategy for dealing with toddler problems. If patience is your main virtue, see if you can still improve on it!

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Watching television is one of those parenting taboos. Parents are cautioned against kids programming and it is a sign of an irresponsible parent if a chile is allowed to watch regular programs. Is baby tv viewing really so bad? I found wonderful programs, which make a huge positive difference in our lives.

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Teaching good manners is one of the tenets of parenting. Yet, many parents exercise notably poor manners in achieving this goal. My husband and I have chosen to teach politeness by example only and it’s working miracles!

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Positive discipline is a well-known parenting approach today. There are scores of books on the subject but implementing the idea requires a lot of thought and figuring it out. What do you really do in any given situation? Positive consequences is an important part of the approach and are differentiated from punishment. After much creative thinking, I am beginning to understand how it all works.

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