Parenting Advice to Ignore Series: Intro/Index

May 8, 2014

Once you’ve got that bundle of joy in your arms, the next thing you may notice is the nearly overwhelming plethora of people who, knowingly or not, want to give you advice about how you should care for it.

Of course, you expect advice and comment from pretty much everyone related to your addition; but advice probably will seem to come out of everywhere! And, if the internet is to be believed, you’ve most likely already screwed this kid up for good… UNLESS you send in $100 for their elixir or salve or book or blanket or crib or… or, or, or!

Honestly, there are some advice you can respectively listen to but then discard. I’ve written about several… but it took several posts to do it.

4 Posts in "Parenting Advice" Series

Parenting Adivce to Ignore: Intro/Index – 8 May 2014
There is advice and there is advice. New parents, especially first time parents, find that there are more than enough "experts" willing to offer advice about how you "should" do this and that raising your children. Especially you "generation Z" parents, who routinely trust internet more than people, should be pretty circumspect about who you listen to. Here are some examples of advice, that you may want to take with more than a grain of salt.

Part 1 - Internet - Crying – 10 May 2014
Parenting advice, it comes from everywhere. If you listened to everyone and tried to follow everything you could well be institutionalized within the week. Pretty much EVERYTHING on the internet comes with an "agenda" which is RARELY (Ok, pretty much never) totally in your best interest. Are you safe to ignore it?

Part 2 - Babysitter - Saying "no" – 22 May 2014
If you thought that you got a lot of parenting advice from people BEFORE the baby was born, just wait and see how many "well wishers" make contact with you after the little one arrives. This part TWO covers a bit more of advice you can ignore.

Part 3 - Soft spot - crying – 3 Jun 2014
Parenting advice – something that we all probably need at one time or another; but, something that is awfully easy to get tired of. Here is some more "stuff not to stress about."

If you want more information about parenting, I’ve written several posts you can use the search box to find on this site; AND, there is a whole series of guest posts by Dr. Greg Barrett.

Series next: Part 1 – Internet – Crying