Best Parenting Advice You've Been Given

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Pattylt said:
My kids are now grown with littles of their own and are best friends of each other, too.

However, I’m trying to imagine them at age 9 and 12 having to say 3 nice things to each other…my son would probably say my daughter has nice toes and daughter would say son usually wears clean underwear! 😂😂😂 I’m not sure how it would have really worked out. Having them hug for one whole minute worked so well I never had to think of any other solutions! Your’s a great idea!
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That your kids become good friends as adults is one of the greatest joys. My siblings and I are really great friends and when we have get togethers it’s just laughing and reminiscing endlessly. Recently my little great nephew told his mother that his face was sore from laughing all day at a get together of family. Any my kids are great friends with each other too. Two of them have done loads of travelling together.
 
TheLittleLady said:
The other best advice was from my brother in law “don’t worry about potty training. Unless he has some sort of disability, he will figure it out before he is 5.” and he did.
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Of course, those years between 3 and 5, when you’re wondering if the kid has some sort of disability can be nerve-wracking.
 
blackforest said:
My Hall of Shame admission is that I actually taught a parenting class while pregnant with my first. (Hey, THEY hired me . . . !) It was Love and Logic and, suffice to say, it doesn’t entirely work on my kids. 😳
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My hall of shame moment: I was the mother of one remarkably easy toddler and I actually uttered the words, “You don’t need to child-proof if you supervise your child.” (Babies number 2 and 3 were my gifts from God to knock me down a bit.)

Regarding the parenting class: I used to be a social worker for CPS and was attending some in-service training. The person giving the training asked, “You know how when you just want to wring their little necks?” As a twenty-something without children, I just couldn’t relate. Now I can.
 
At the border there is tens of thousands of them trying to come into the country and not be tracked.
 
I did 12 years of representing children in abuse cases, so I am not real big on parents “thought out convictions”. When people are not capable of parsing out reality from the local coffee break chatter, the child will be the one who suffers.

Am I going to tell the parents they are wrong? I was not anointed to do that; but if someone comes up with some hair-brained response to a child raising issue in front of me, I likely will wade in.

You agree with vaccinations; but there are going to be parents who will have the privilege of attending their child’s funeral over the decision to not do so.
 
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Two things I was told:
  1. “What part of the word 'N’o don’t you understand? I will explain it to you.”
  2. Read to your children.
    I read to my twin daughters even when they were in high school. One day one of them called from college: “Dad, I heard your voice!”
    (me) “I didn’t call?”
    (daughter) “No! I heard your voice! We are reading Tales of Narnia!”
When I read to them, I used different voices for characters. That phone call told me I had done at least one thing right.
 
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Here exists a long quantity of posts from Catholic Twitter. Their exists much more. I can not speak from the perspective of a parent.

Warning, the next post discusses young children and the restroom functions.

Quote:​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1126297905885732866
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“@theghissilent I thought rule number one was to always treat them as if they’re loaded?”

Context:​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1126289632017014784
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“[gets overly confident after 37 successful diaper changes] [decides to blow raspberries on the baby’s belly before putting a new diaper on just this once] [gets absolutely drenched with urine] ❤️❤️❤️ parenting ❤️❤️❤️”
https://twitter.com/x/status/3906030926
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“Entering a sleeping baby’s room requires the silent precision of a Navy SEAL Team. By God’s grace I succeeded. I am a suburban ninja.” - Mark Hart

When anyone complains about your Baby at mass:​

https://twitter.com/x/status/1111683598766080000
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Babies at Mass? Absolutely! If the Church is not crying, it is dying. (Great line from @ TaylorRMarshall )
 
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otjm said:
  1. Read to your children.
    I read to my twin daughters even when they were in high school. One day one of them called from college: “Dad, I heard your voice!”
    (me) “I didn’t call?”
    (daughter) “No! I heard your voice! We are reading Tales of Narnia!”
When I read to them, I used different voices for characters. That phone call told me I had done at least one thing right.
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This is beautiful.

My mom would read to us every night. We went through so many of the classics and I treasure those memories.

I believe that is why now, as an old lady, I still fall asleep best when listening to an audio book
 
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Sing to your children…it doesn’t matter if you sound like geese farts in the wind! To them, it’s the voice of the Angels. 😂
 
Pattylt said:
Sing to your children…it doesn’t matter if you sound like geese farts in the wind! To them, it’s the voice of the Angels. 😂
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Sure. My sister and I continue to bond over our dad’s extraordinarily bad singing voice and our mutual experience of it.
 
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There’s your clue as to when to stop singing! When you no longer sound like angels 😂. I stopped when my oldest remarked that I really didn’t sing very well. Number 2 took a few more years.
 
This is one of those parenting hacks that goes around facebook.

RULES TO TEACH YOUR SON
  1. Never shake a man’s hand sitting down.
  2. Don’t enter a pool by the stairs.
  3. The man at the BBQ Grill is the closest thing to a king.
  4. In a negotiation, never make the first offer.
  5. When entrusted with a secret, keep it.
  6. Hold your heroes to a higher standard.
  7. Return a borrowed car with a full tank of gas.
  8. Play with passion or don’t play at all…
  9. When shaking hands, grip firmly and look them in the eye.
  10. Don’t let a wishbone grow where a backbone should be.
  11. If you need music on the beach, you’re missing the point.
  12. Carry two handkerchiefs. The one in your back pocket is for you. The one in your breast pocket is for her.
  13. You marry the girl, you marry her family.
  14. Be like a duck. Remain calm on the surface and paddle like crazy underneath.
  15. Experience the serenity of traveling alone.
  16. Never be afraid to ask out the best looking girl in the room.
  17. Never turn down a breath mint.
  18. A sport coat is worth 1000 words.
  19. Try writing your own eulogy. Never stop revising.
  20. Thank a veteran. Then make it up to him/her
  21. Eat lunch with the new kid.
  22. After writing an angry email, read it carefully. Then delete it.
  23. Ask your mom to play. She won’t let you win.
  24. Manners maketh the man.
  25. Give credit. Take the blame.
  26. Stand up to Bullies. Protect those bullied.
  27. Write down your dreams.
  28. Take time to snuggle your pets, they love you so much and are always happy to see you.
  29. Be confident and humble at the same time.
  30. If ever in doubt, remember whose son you are and REFUSE to just be ordinary!
  31. In all things lead by example not explanation.
 
blackforest said:
So the rumors are true? They don’t come with instruction manuals?? :crazy_face:
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They do, but it’s in the umbilical cord. You don’t learn this until your fourth . . .
blackforest said:
My Hall of Shame admission is that I actually taught a parenting class while pregnant with my first.
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When the twins were coming, we wanted the baptism in my parents’ parish, where extended family could come.

It turned out that there was a class we had to take for that diocese, and that they would substitute, but not waive.

The deacon didn’t quite roll his eyes, but commented that the course was really about first time parents . . . and it wouldn’t be offered again before we needed it . . .and then with a bit of a combination of evil grin and hurting his arm from patting himself on the back . . . he announced that he had a “Jesuitical solution” (he knew my background), and put us on the teaching staff for the course! He sent that back, which satisfied my parents’ diocese.

He forgot, though, to tell us when the course that we were supposed to help teach was!

😜😱🤣

And as for vaccinations . . . I believe that my grandchildren are still short one vaccination.

It’s not that my daughter is anti-vax; she is not–but she absolutely refuses to use a vaccine made from tissues of aborted children, and has put in staggering effort to find moral vaccines, and so far has succeeded for all but one.

I find it hard to fault her on this . . .

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Best ever, before we left the hospital with our first.
The nurse gave us this.
When he cries…
1 check the diaper
2 burp him
3 feed him
In that order.

Too many new parents hear a baby crying and don’t know the first thing to do.
 
dochawk said:
It’s not that my daughter is anti-vax; she is not–but she absolutely refuses to use a vaccine made from tissues of aborted children, and has put in staggering effort to find moral vaccines, and so far has succeeded for all but one.
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Do you know which one this is? As far as I recall, they have all been reformulated but I may be wrong.
Thanks!
 
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