Comments on: It's Never Enough Is It? http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/2007/05/30/its-never-enough-is-it/ Wed, 26 Oct 2011 13:53:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Leslie http://www.lisapaitzspindler.com/2007/05/30/its-never-enough-is-it/#comment-106 Leslie Wed, 30 May 2007 15:09:01 +0000 http://lisapaitzspindler.com/blog/?p=153#comment-106 "It’s the same old conflicting message I’ve been hearing for the past four years since my daughter was born and I started to pay attention to parenting advice: Be there totally for your kids at every moment, but somehow find time for yourself; make every moment a learning opportunity so that your child can become the genius she was meant to be, and if she doesn’t then it’s your fault; but for goodness sake, relax about it; make it look effortless." Ain't that the truth. Talk about conflicting messages. It reminds me of when my sister took her one year old to the pediatrician. He yelled at her to get him off the bottle immediately. Then my own pediatrician said not to rush, it's okay to take my time and do it when it was right for us as a family. It's no wonder we aren't sure what to do or what is considered "right" when the authority figures can't even agree. I can go on and on with other examples but I think you really captured it well. Honestly I think the best advice is - do the best you can with what you've got. “It’s the same old conflicting message I’ve been hearing for the past four years since my daughter was born and I started to pay attention to parenting advice: Be there totally for your kids at every moment, but somehow find time for yourself; make every moment a learning opportunity so that your child can become the genius she was meant to be, and if she doesn’t then it’s your fault; but for goodness sake, relax about it; make it look effortless.”

Ain’t that the truth. Talk about conflicting messages. It reminds me of when my sister took her one year old to the pediatrician. He yelled at her to get him off the bottle immediately. Then my own pediatrician said not to rush, it’s okay to take my time and do it when it was right for us as a family.

It’s no wonder we aren’t sure what to do or what is considered “right” when the authority figures can’t even agree. I can go on and on with other examples but I think you really captured it well. Honestly I think the best advice is – do the best you can with what you’ve got.

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