Being a Parent

Being a Parent: Parenting - is there a manual on how to do this? (197 words)
by pinkmuppet - written on 14.07.08 (Useful, 10 readings)
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Before I became a parent I had all these ideas of what I was going to do when I became one, my kids would only be allowed to watch TV for 10 minutes a day and would never be allowed one in their room, they would only eat organic healthy food - no sweets etc etc. Then I had my children and a new world was opened to me and it was a shock. I was very judgemental about parenting and thats easy when you're not going through it yourself but although I adore my children and cannot now ever imagine what I used to do before I had them, TV is ometimes a godsend and th odd ice cream they have when they come in from school before tea and I've just walked in from work, ...

BEST JOB IN THE WORLD (429 words)
by denisej29 - written on 05.07.08 (Useful, 38 readings)
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I know this has probably been said before but there is no preparation for being a parent. Anything else you take on in life you are trained for-if you change careers you are trained before you start,if you want to drive you take lessons but being a parent you get nothing! I dont know any new parent that hasnt looked at their 5 minute old baby and thought"what do I do now?"The only information we really have before the birth is "the books" which we have been reading for 9 months and when we get our baby home we find they have no rules for you to follow because your child is not behaving like the books say! We also tend to have our parents and in laws ...

Being a Parent: A job with big rewards (402 words)
by tinkerbella21 - written on 06.06.08 (Very useful, 44 readings)
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I seem to writing alot on the parenting issues lately but I am not for one moment claiming to any type of expert on the subject, then again are there any experts in the unpredictable world of being a parent? I had never been the most maternal women in the world and never had any experience with babies or children, infact the only GCSE that i failed was Child Development. When I was pregnant with my son I often worried if I was good enough to be a Mum, after all this new life was going to depend on me for everything and if I failed then it would be my son that suffered. When he was born I couldn't believe the love i felt for him, it was like a huge ...