Indeed - judicious, consistent parenting is a dream of mine. No judgements, learning space and listening carefully are my goals.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nobody ever becomes an expert parent. But I think good parenting is about consistency. It's about being there at big moments, but it's also just the consistency of decision making. And it's routine.
When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.
So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
I came to parenting the way most of us do - knowing nothing and trying to learn everything.
The challenging part of parenting for me is to make sure that an individual person is an individual and not some sort of cookie-cutter version of me. At the same time, I want to make sure that I impart my sense of the world as an adult.
I have a very steadfast tendency to parent myself, to monitor my development into the person I want to be. I've tried to keep the corruption minimal.
It's difficult to keep that perspective, I think, as a parent: to know your boundaries as to what's good parenting or just projecting your own expectations on your kids. That's the hardest.
I'm not a parent, but it seems to me the nature of parenting is contingent, full of unexpected challenges - which is one of the wonderful and amazing things about it.
In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.