Honest Baby Board: Dispelling the myth of the perfect parent
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If I write a post for Blogging Baby about playing with
your children at the park or worrying
about their safety, someone will inevitably bring up "hovering" and how you're doing a disservice to a
child by not fostering independence. If someone has
things they miss about life before children, a firestorm
of comments could ensue about being a selfish, ungrateful mom. Yet, we also read tons of comments from parents who are tired of living up to the myth of being a perfect parent. I wonder why? Could it be that the perfect parent doesn't exist? I imagine if there there were such a thing, it would be laden with so much parenting guilt - don't we have enough of that already?
I like to think that we at Blogging Baby are helping to do a little perfect parenting myth shattering. Today's dose Daily Candy pointed me to another site I'm in love with: Honest Baby. It's motto? "Celebrating the imperfect journey of parenting." How can you not dig that?
Honest Baby includes a "Storytime" message board where it invites you to share your stories of "real parenting" to help dispel the myth of perfect parenting. They also have some kick-ass kid's t-shirts with phrases like "not sleeping through the night," "I'll walk when I'm good and ready," and my personal favorite, "I survived nipple confusion."
I. dig. it.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Kim 3-02-2006 @ 1:42PM
Anyone find a discount code for ordering? There is a space for one on the order screen but my searches all came up empty.
Oliver's gotta have "not sleeping through the night"!
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Jesse Kennedy 3-02-2006 @ 3:48PM
Perfect is a state of mind and always subjective. . . I think striving for "perfect" is a waste of valuable time that could be spent having fun with your kids! Thanks for pointing out this fun and realistic parenting site.
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Julia 3-02-2006 @ 4:37PM
THANK YOU!!! I was in a foul mood this morning because I was awake about every 1 1/2 from midnight on because of a teething baby. I am buying "I will walk when I am good and ready" today....
I have apologized to my DD for being a "Yelling Mommy" more times than I want to admit, and she can't even tell me to shut up yet.
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