On Being the Parent of a Young Child I would like to pass on a few thoughts about being the parent of a young child. I hope you find some of what I say comforting at the end of a long, hard day. I think all parents wonder at times whether someone else has discovered an easier way of doing the job. We wonder if we are doing something wrong. I am afraid that no one else knows any secrets or shortcuts to being a good parent.
Nothing is wrong.
And for very good reasons. Young children need so much looking after, for one thing. You need to be on your toes almost all of the time. Children have no real capacity to think ahead, no capacity to be on the lookout for the unexpected. They need very watchful grown-ups to do this kind of thinking for them.