46. When someone says, “I could never do that” about one of your parenting practices, the delivery might be annoying, but they are usually telling the truth.
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47. Letting siblings work things out for themselves is a bad meme. Sometimes it’s the right answer, and scaffolding instead of doing it all yourself is good. But I meet all sorts of people whose parents basically let their siblings abuse them for years with this justification.
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48. Toddler leashes are unfairly stigmatized. Some kids hate them, so there’s that. But they are much much less restrictive than strollers.
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49. You don’t have to squint very hard to a huge chunk of justice arguments over to kids. People don’t usually though, even when they are pretty into SJ.
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50. In terms of structural factors that interfere with healthy parent-child attachment, I think car seat use is pretty bad actually.
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51. On Becoming Babywise, one of the most popular books about scheduling and sleep training babies starts with a whole section about now the best thing you can do for your baby’s sleep is have a strong marriage. Interesting, right?
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52. New moms aren’t sure what to do with half their brain and also want community. Hence, extreme geeking out about baby carriers, cloth diapers, etc.
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53. There are lots of events where you can bring your kids but no one is expecting them to actually do kid stuff, which is fine. I’ve been to a Mormon family church service before and I was impressed! The message I got was that it was truly normal to have kids. It felt foreign.
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54. Lots of people have very poor memories of their childhoods. And lots of grandparent types barely remember what they did as parents. Exceptions exist, and it’s fruitful to pick their brains.
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55. Parents are usually meaner to their kids in private than in public. Everyone knows this, and people rarely even allude to it.
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