I have this blanket thing about giving parenting advice to parents, and that's: 'Don't take other people's advice on parenting.'
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.
I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.
I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.
Obviously I ask my family and loved ones for advice here and there, but I kind of have a rule with the people I love that surround me - close family and close friends - that unless I ask for it, I don't really want advice thrown out.
It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.
I will say this: one of the things that is a pain when you're expecting children is how much advice unsolicited people give you when you're not asking for it.
I try not to give too much advice, really, because people have to do their things their way. I got lots of advice when I was young, and I ignored most of it - the good and the bad.
I'm worried about parents who aren't parenting.
I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.