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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really like Janet Lansbury.  But I can't say I follow all her advice perfectly.  I don't see most of these philosophies as something you need to do PERFECTLY.  They are ideas.  Ways to push your thinking about child rearing, and how to change your approach when you aren't getting the behavior you want.  I do not see them as a holy gospel.  I think that's our cultural problem, we want a check list of "how to do it right" when it's much more complicated than that.

Lansbury helped me be MUCH more empathetic with my toddler.  Especially after I added a little brother to her life, which really did throw her in a tailspin.  I still put her in timeout, so I was not The Perfect Unruffled Parent, but it helped me immensely see the limitations of my own "my way or the highway" attitude in getting what *I* wanted.

I think each generation finds improvements in parenting.  But again, there is no one perfect doctrine.  It just moves the needle.  L[b]ook at how spanking has gone from common to derided in just one generation.[[/b]/quote]

I'm 56 years old, and it was much derided in my parents' circle of friends.  My (close) friends and I were never spanked.  Anecdote is not data, but I think it's socioeconomic or education.  There are still many many places in the US where spanking is common and accepted.[/quote]

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