Recently I took down from the library the old books with pink covers and Comic Sans font. With several pregnant friends, I thought I had an excellent occasion to elegantly get rid of them. However I gave then a bag of old PJs and t-shirts instead. And a piece of advice. Don't read anything that comes in a pink cover and Comic Sans font.
Baby books are amazingly not written by mothers. Maybe that's why basic information is missing. For example:
The best place for the baby to be is his parent's arms. Forget the stroller and get yourself a scarf!
Kids grow! Park for a moment the sweet visual of a tiny baby peeking through the material and picture a ten kilos baby screaming and scratching your face trying to get out while your both hands are busy holding the shopping and the diapers bag
Sleeping in the same bed is the most natural approach.
Forget that divine picture of a baby peacefully sleeping between mum and day. I offer you something more realistic. You, waking up at 3 am to change wet sheets. Or your husband trying to reach one of your breasts while your baby demands access to the other one. Do you enjoy sex? Buy a crib!
Let him breastfeed as long as he wants, and whenever he wants.
In this case, this summer you better find a swimming pool that allows topless because from the first year on, his little hands can remove any bikini. Remember the baby in the scarf and the busy hands? Lovely visual in any supermarket.
Kids are good by nature. Try to reason, don't force him to do something he doesn't want
It's minus 3 degrees. Daniel does not want to wear gloves. He kicks and scream and lie in the snow. Daniel cries because his hands, frozen, hurt. Mum is late to the dermatologist and, suppressing her first impulse to slap him, screams at him instead and put him by force in the stroller while bypassers wonder if they should call social services. While mum straps Daniel firmly, glad she didn't take the scarf, feels guilty because she is not following any of the recommendations of a book with pink cover that no self-respecting father would ever read.
Baby books are amazingly not written by mothers. Maybe that's why basic information is missing. For example:
The best place for the baby to be is his parent's arms. Forget the stroller and get yourself a scarf!
Kids grow! Park for a moment the sweet visual of a tiny baby peeking through the material and picture a ten kilos baby screaming and scratching your face trying to get out while your both hands are busy holding the shopping and the diapers bag
Sleeping in the same bed is the most natural approach.
Forget that divine picture of a baby peacefully sleeping between mum and day. I offer you something more realistic. You, waking up at 3 am to change wet sheets. Or your husband trying to reach one of your breasts while your baby demands access to the other one. Do you enjoy sex? Buy a crib!
Let him breastfeed as long as he wants, and whenever he wants.
In this case, this summer you better find a swimming pool that allows topless because from the first year on, his little hands can remove any bikini. Remember the baby in the scarf and the busy hands? Lovely visual in any supermarket.
Kids are good by nature. Try to reason, don't force him to do something he doesn't want
It's minus 3 degrees. Daniel does not want to wear gloves. He kicks and scream and lie in the snow. Daniel cries because his hands, frozen, hurt. Mum is late to the dermatologist and, suppressing her first impulse to slap him, screams at him instead and put him by force in the stroller while bypassers wonder if they should call social services. While mum straps Daniel firmly, glad she didn't take the scarf, feels guilty because she is not following any of the recommendations of a book with pink cover that no self-respecting father would ever read.
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