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RE: The only parenting advice I have...
Your thoughts are like my thoughts when it comes to children and my children turned out great! They will teach you a thing or two if you let them. Love is not enough.
Well that's encouraging to hear, thank you. :) I think love is enough if love is properly expressed as action. Those who say they "love" but don't have the actions backing the claim, well, they may be confused. I think the ideas represented here are a deep form of love. At least, that's what I tell myself.
I'm referring more to knowledge about the nature of children (and ourselves). You can love them but just because you really love them doesn't mean you will make the best decisions for them, from punishment to privilege there are things to understand how their little brains work and what is normal. I hate to say it but you sound like one of those parent's who have bothered to learn about children to a deeper level than most and get the big gift giving picture they give to us...you're too rare and it makes me sad. I think the average parent is selfish to a fault and they don't know it.