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Taking Parenting Advice from others

On the subject of taking parenting advice from others: I do not recommend it. Yes a lot of parents when they hear you are a first time parent will give you tons of unsolicited advice, and while you may be like a sponge (much like me) and take it all in and try your hardest to remember it when the time comes, it can sometimes hurt you. A lot of parents think after raising their kids and they turned out pretty good that they have it all figured out. Think again, each kid is different, and I can certainly say that for our little one. When we first had Tucker everyone told us, DO NOT PUT HIM IN THE BED WITH YOU HE WILL BE THERE UNTIL HE IS 10. Something we never wanted to do was have our child sleep with us until he was 10. So we adamantly kept him in his crib, through allllll of the sleepless nights. We put him in the bed with us a week and a half ago. Viola the kid sleeps through the night and the parents get sleep. See SEE what I mean. Tucker just needed the comfort of his parents, could be a number of things, but the kid sleeps like a baby between mom and dad. So some parenting advice I can offer thus far. DO NOT TAKE PARENTING ADVICE from other parents, especially not non-parents! That is all. :)
-B

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