Aspect of parenting you are glad you "researched"?

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Anonymous wrote:Good sleep habits. We followed “eat, active, sleep” as soon as we got home from the hospital, and researched how much sleep babies should be getting at each age. Of course, you have to be somewhat flexible with a baby. But we avoided a ton of bad habits and our DS has always been a good napper as a result. Night sleep was more challenging - he’s kind of an “average” night sleeper. But I shudder to think how much worse it would have been if we got in bad habits with bringing him into our bed, nursing/feeding bottle to sleep, lasting day/night confision, etc.

Other than that I didn’t “research” much and just went with the flow. A lot of internet information isn’t even reliable anyway.

Such generalizations here about "bad hanits." My ds who is 5 now has always been an amazing night sleeper. And I nursed him to sleep until nursing him to sleep didnt work anymore (around 5 months old). No bad habit was created and his ability to sleep was not impacted at all.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what aspects of parenting people found it helpful to research or learn more about -- for example, sleep, discipline, feeding, safety, etc.

It is really interesting to me that in our modern times, we need to do this to get information that would have been passed down by one's community or family from other sources. At the same time, there are many things I've found out through books or articles that have been more helpful than the vague advice of others.

How to parent a kid with ADHD (their brains really are wired differently, so usual techniques backfire spectacularly)

How to raise Siblings without Rivalry (I was an only child, plus I've seen too many sibling relationships ruined by bad parenting).

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I know this doesn't really apply here, but if any pregnant ladies are reading this thread - I am beyond glad I researched the crap out of pregnancy and childbirth. It made me so much more prepared for labor and delivery and I had 2 wonderful experiences giving birth because I knew what was happening to my body and I let it do its thing.

As far as parenting, I've read and re-read "Bringing up Bebe" and really love it. It fits my style and it's not a how-to book, it's just filled with ideas that have translated really well for our family. "Happiest Toddler on the Block" is also ok, but some of it is silly to me.

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none and i went with it...

and i am surprised how easy going my dd turned out to be she is almost 2

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Sleep. More the importance of sleep, rather than sleep training, per se. It gave me the confidence to know that I could leave my kid to cry a bit and settle himself and learn how to put himself back to sleep, and to know that letting your kid cry for a while does not make you a bad mom, and that prioritizing a nap over outings is worthwhile. I liked Baby 411 a lot, and healthy sleep habits happy baby (I mean, the latter is a bit dry and may be overkill for some, but for me I thought it was worth while). I also liked bringing up baby--more about an approach or mindset than an actual how to.

We are reaching the age where I may start researching best ways to deal with a bossy toddler...

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccine dangers

The only danger is in not vaccinating your baby.

+1

You're welcome for the Herd Immunity, freeloader.

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Anonymous wrote:Sleep training and breastfeeding. I started DD with good sleep habits (wake, eat, play, sleep) at 4 weeks.

Agree with both of these.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaccine dangers

The only danger is in not vaccinating your baby.

+1

You're welcome for the Herd Immunity, freeloader.

I like to think that the people who post simple things related to vaccines are the people that just immediately go and get their popcorn and wait for the show to start. They can't be serious...

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Sleep training. Screen time.

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Anonymous wrote:Potty training, Oh Crap was spot on.

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