Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.
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I have been listening to people's advice. Being a parent, you need all the advice you can get.
Parenting is not for everybody. It changes your life. Especially when they're little.
I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
Being a parent is not a reasonable thing. It is a very hard thing. I am a parent and I know.
Raising children uses every bit of your being - your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them.
If you're a good parent, see the changes that are happening in your kids.
The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any.
You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.