Ok, it’s pretty much the last drive down the field for the high school home team who needs a touchdown to win and they are within 15 yards of the goal. On the first snap someone comes from nowhere and sideswipes the quarterback – now he’s lying limp on the field without the slightest movement.
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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 in order to give you the benefit of their extensive experience.
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Last weeks issue [Apr 25, 2014] of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was quite disheartening in that it reported a new surge of Measles cases – a disease which was once on the razor’s edge brink of eradication.
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Parenting advice, it comes from everywhere. If you listened to everyone and tried to follow everything you could well be institutionalized within the week.
Relatives are hard to ignore – but may be misinformed or out of date; so-called “free” samples aren’t really free if they come with self-serving advice; and, (more…)
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 parenting 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.
I have to say that reading the research study that I’m commencing to tell you about kinda’ caught me a bit off guard and I’m still trying to “process” it. Treating proven appendicitis in children without surgery – who would even try it the first time to see if it would work?
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[Site no longer active – It’s camped on by an internet “flipper” trying to make a killing. I even tried to use the “wayback” archives to try and resurrect the page to include here; but, alas, it didn’t work!] Being a parent to a child with Asperger’s High-Functioning Autism is at least high-adventure parenting if not an “extreme sport.” This father of three, EMT tech, photographer is also a blogger of a site he calls: Adventures in Asperger’s.
[Site no longer active – which makes me sorry, you really should have seen it in it’s day!]
[http://www.adventuresinaspergers.com/]