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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who disagree that parenting is not intuitive: please think of parents who are bad. We all know them. They think they're doing the right thing but they aren't. Maybe it felt intuitive for you but we do not know the right things to do with toddlers jus because we birthed a child. [/quote]

When I think of parents I know who I think are bad at parenting, they are all doing what they think they "should" be doing. Whether that's being extremely lenient because they are afraid of disciplining their kids (so their kids are out of control), or they are super disciplinarians (and their kids are afraid of them). Or they put their kids in a zillion activities to the point where the kids are stressed and anxious. And so on.

In each case, they are letting external pressures and expectations dictate how they approach their kids, and they aren't listening to their gut reaction. They often ignore major red flags (like a toddler who is definitely going to meltdown if they don't get some support or kindness in that moment) and go ahead and do what they were taught or told is "good" parenting because they are afraid to just feel out the situation and see what will work best.[/quote]

Yeah I guess we will just have to agree to disagree on this because I have had a ton of parenting situations when my gut reaction told me *nothing*. It was useless. And it's not because I'm some insecure person, afraid of what others might think of me, it's because I just had no idea what to do in that situation. My kids are so far only teenagers but I'm very proud of how things are going and I do attribute a decent amount of that to listening to parenting advice rather than just trying to do what was intuitive in the moment. [/quote]

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