But, in an interview, Brazelton said it's not necessarily knowledge we're looking for. They're not getting it from their own child-rearing experience and not from the extended family of old. It's more that they are getting backup because they already have a sense of what is right for their own child. Parents need to start trusting their own common sense, their ownintuition more often. You cannot walk on eggs through parenting.
Parents are nervous wrecks.
We've taken something people have been doing for thousands of years and made it into a psychological process. You have to talk right, walk right in order for your kids to turn out okay. Joking aside, this father of seven adopted children, ages 6 months to 10 years, reminds us that we are our children's mom or dad and the experts aren't, and forgetting that simple fact can have a detrimental effect on our parenting skills. Parents need to start trusting their own common sense, their own intuition more often. Parents need to stop scrutinizing.