Have you been bombarded by advice from all directions on how you should be bringing up your child? Have all your friends and family been giving you different tips and techniques that just don’t make sense? Although it is nice to get advice from people, it can sometimes be very hard to cope with all the different ideas that keep bombarding you. Many parents find it hard to listen to all the conflicting tips that friends can give, and it is therefore important to remember that all children are different. Nobody will know your own child better than you and different things will always work for different people.

Although you may not want to listen to people all the time, it is important not to dismiss everything that they say just because you want to do it your own way.  Listen patiently when people tell you how they managed and then decide whether it could be something that would work for you. You may miss some valuable advice by not listening, and it may just be the idea that you needed.

It can sometimes be difficult for your family to imagine you as a parent, especially if they have known you for a long time. If you ever feel like they are criticising you, let it go over your head and try to be sensitive towards them. They may have done things differently ‘back in their day’, but this is how you do things now. Try to remain firm with everyone so that they know that you welcome the advice, but that you also want to learn from your own mistakes.

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