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- From: ashley@osc.edu (Ashley Burns)
- Subject: Re: Child Security and Childcare (was Re: 20/20 and Spanking)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.004611.2006@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio Supercomputer Center
- References: <1dm90bINNhdk@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <dlhanson.31.721337335@nap.amoco.com> <1992Nov12.195516.28115@ntmtv>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:46:11 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.195516.28115@ntmtv> missy@ntmtv.UUCP (Missy Iaquinto) writes:
- >has ALWAYS been the nervous type. There's nothing I appreciate more
- >than someone who *doesn't* question my parenting skills when my daughter
- >behaves more nervous than the "average" child her age. Almost exclusively,
- >the people who simply accept her behavior as normal and not alarming
- >are parents who have/had a child with a similar personality. In other
- >words, it seems to be difficult for some parents to understand that
- >what comes naturally or easily for their child is NOT a result of
- >their skills as a parent, it's simply the nature of the child. Likewise,
-
- AMEN. I have had so many people say that Austin just needed more
- experienced parents, needed us to be more relaxed, needed not to be fed
- every hour (he was so miserable for the first two months he ate almost
- every hour and cried most of the time between catnaps), etc., etc.
- The hard part was trying to assure ourselves that it WASN'T us. We were
- unsure what we were getting into, and didn't sleep much, and our
- confidence suffered enough without the remarks.
-
- Parenthood has been a great lesson to me in compromise. I wanted the
- perfect baby, I wanted to breastfeed until a year, I wanted to prove
- it wasn't that hard and that Greg and I were so well prepared and
- completely in sync. I thought that introducing Austin to day care early
- would make him really easygoing. Boy did I have a rude awakening. He
- is not a cryer anymore, but he doesn't eat very well at all at his day
- care home; he is nervous a lot (he startles easily); breastfeeding
- was difficult during his colic problems (he struggled a lot) and now
- I have found to my surprise that I am not enjoying it much anymore;
- he had trouble with constipation and diarrhea at different times even
- though he was breastfed; and that is just the start of the list of
- unexpected events! He is a nervous personality, we think, but he
- offsets that with wonderful smiles returned to practically anyone
- who smiles at him. The point for me is that in a child you get a
- real person with a real person's problems and good points. You can't
- pat yourself too much on the back for what he does--HE is the one
- who did it.
-
- [Gotta go. I think Austin just had his own rude awakening!]
-
- --Ashley, ashley@osc.edu
-