Post by gato on Nov 18, 2023 8:04:20 GMT -5
Working without a net: every new parent is faced with monumental on-the-job-training. Their quaint theories about childrearing, fondly massaged during the pregnancy, tend to melt away during that 3:00 am non-stop screeching of a newly arrived infant.
They may briefly consider looking at their own childhood as an apprenticeship, but then think, "those people who raised me made a lot of mistakes that I'm not going to repeat."
Then they go about making cringeworthy new mistakes of their own, and eventually write books on parenting correctly. Which their parents later read and wonder, "where did I go wrong?"
They may briefly consider looking at their own childhood as an apprenticeship, but then think, "those people who raised me made a lot of mistakes that I'm not going to repeat."
Then they go about making cringeworthy new mistakes of their own, and eventually write books on parenting correctly. Which their parents later read and wonder, "where did I go wrong?"
