RE: How to be a super-dad #5 (Full-time fatherhood and my ego)
I have been thinking a lot about this similar subject. But when you said "why should I worry about what people think of me", and while I have heard that phrase many times, it clicked for some reason this time and that got me thinking. Why (in parenthood) do I worry about what people think of me? I finally have answered that question for myself....and I am not sure if I like my own answer. But it is because I want someone to tell me and reassure me that I am doing a good job in raising my child. I don't believe in myself enough to know that I have done a tremendous job already. But now my next question has formed, why do I think someone else knows better than me how to best raise my child? Oh, is this parenting thing the hardest job in the WORLD?!
I enjoyed your post very much. And while it has opened up more questions that I have no answers to for myself, its still a question that needed to be asked and explored for myself and my family. Maybe the fact that we are even exploring and thinking about our parenting life this way, is really the answer that we are doing good by our families? At least I will believe that one for now. LOL Here's hopes, hugs and prayers for being parents? We shall all struggle together. :)
I can assure you that if you have questioned yourself those questions, you are more superior than most of the people. You make very logical chain of though. You will be very successful in anything you are interested in , if you just follow this path, ask question find answer, it gives new questions look for more answers, and so on, as time goes, you eventually will have many answers in your head, and you will be capable of many good things.
And in parenting there is no correct way of doing things, all of this is just try things, and find that works for you. So just try and you will have the best things that works. The same as mine posts, you can find maybe some tips , but you don't have to look on it as only correct way, as it works for me it might not work for you, as you have different life with different social environment . So you can just take some of it try it out and if it works for you cha-ching.