Best Parenting Advice You've Ever Received?

[Peach*]

"Do whatever works for you"
Although it has taken me almost eleven months to just do that. Things got so much easier for us with all our sleep issues when I gave up all the patting and shusshing child health told us to do and just accepted feeding to sleep. So what if she sleeps in her pram at night?? It works so why bother trying anything else that will end in tears?
That was a bit of a tangent sorry

[Fig]

Best advice I have had for the toddler years:
"Your child mirrors your behaviour".
As soon i realise my 2.5 year old is grumpy, having tantrums, bad tempered, I look at myself and realise I have been bahving the same. Didn't notice that till it was pointed out. Has helped me to remain much calmer, and works for her too.

[Butterfly Child]

Best advice I have had for the toddler years:
"Your child mirrors your behaviour".
As soon i realise my 2.5 year old is grumpy, having tantrums, bad tempered, I look at myself and realise I have been bahving the same. Didn't notice that till it was pointed out. Has helped me to remain much calmer, and works for her too.

Wow i have never heard that, what a great peice of advice never looked at it that way xxx thx hun

[widdly]

Gosh Fig, what you have just posted is exactly what is happening in my house atm! My 3.5 is yelling growling, not listening at all, being rough and just plain awful. I am now realising that I have all of the sudden started yelling at him all the time, even a few smacks and general short temperedness. I see now that I need a huge attitude change when it comes to DS and then he will eventually follow suit. Thankks Fig x

[Kitt3n]

Don't listen to any parenting advice you have ever recieved!

[sneakysparkle]

"Dont listen to the "should" police!" irt sleeping etc