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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't parent the world. Sometimes it's best not to offer advice/help. Younger mothers are definitely from a different world. I learned the hard way to NEVER EVER give advice unless I'm asked and then I sometimes say I don't know. I for sure wouldn't do it to a stranger. Younger mothers have rabies.

My DIL once told me

" This is OUR child. I will raise her the best way I know how and it won't be some 50s style of parenting. You raised your, I'll raise mine "

All because I offered advice on diapers. DIAPERS. Needless to say that right there ended any relationship we might have had. Live and learn.[/quote]
Maybe it's the way you said it?

I'm 50, and my mom still tries to tell me how to parent, but she says it in such a way that comes across as patronizing and condescending.  She thinks she knows better because she raised 4 kids the old fashion way.

I don't have a good relationship with her, either.[/quote]

If your comment was based on 1980s diaper technology, then you were wrong.  Consider that things really do change over time.[/quote]

That is so true. So many things have changed and products are better now. Older mom's like me, have to relearn stuff for our grandkids. But, it's all good![/quote]

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