Idolising Children?

Funky columnist at The Oz and new mum, Emma Tom has a piece today that describes really well the ongoing challenges for parent’s traversing the wide range of parenting dogma. You can read it here.

What Emma concludes with is the most sensible advice…we just hear it too infrequently.

Like Barker, I wouldn’t recommend control crying for everyone. It’s hard and heartbreaking and doesn’t always work. But I would urge other sleep-deprived parents to ignore the preposterous extremes prescribed by some of the pundits and try more nuanced approaches in the long search for that slightly sweeter-smelling bucket.

Acknowledging the fact that it will be different for all children and all parents, and to avoid dogma is advice worth listening too.