Testing Your Parenting Skills

Every where a parent looks there are hidden pitfalls and landmines waiting to test their parenting skills. Danger lurks in the form of round hot dog pieces causing choking or even a spill proof cup causing tooth malformation. Parenting skills become more like surviving the wilderness than the domestic scene that they should be.

For every expert there is another expert touting a different way of raising a child. No television? Yes, television? There are even experts who advocate parenting skills for teaching a child not to cry. But there are some skills that all parents need to have.

Some people seem to be blessed with more parenting skills than others. Is this actually true? Not really, it is just that perhaps those parents had more experience around children.

The road to adulthood is a long and sometimes frustrating journey as parents help their children towards being a healthy adult. It may not seem easy but the good things in life rarely are.

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