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Everyone has parenting advice – even people who have never had kids!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You start getting this mostly-unsolicited advice when you are pregnant because unless you never look pregnant, you are a target for child rearing advice.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n t’s part of the human psyche to offer advice to pregnant women – and it’s been done since way back when.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Here’s the way it usually goes:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n h, you’re pregnant. That’s great. I know a good pediatrician – her name is…or there are such good new toys for newborns – you can get them at… or have you heard about the new music to play while you are pregnant – it will make your child a genius – and by the way – do you know if you’re having a girl or a boy?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n You almost can’t avoid this onslaught of advice – so best to be polite and say “thank you” – but do not engage in the conversation.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [This onslaught continues if you have a baby or toddler with you so practice now.<\/span><\/span>]<\/p>\n If you engage – you are caught for a long chat about babies!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Google “books on parenting advice” and you will find 1000’s of sites! You cannot read them all – even in several lifetimes. Don’t even try.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Stop and ask yourself who will be raising your baby? The people with advice? The books?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n 3 tips for new parents to help you lessen guilt Tip 1 – Stop chatting with everyone Everyone has parenting advice – even people who have never had kids! You start getting this mostly-unsolicited advice when you are pregnant because unless you never look pregnant, you are a target for child rearing advice. t’s part […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[283,494,343],"tags":[532,307,502,385,480,360,461,460,409,503],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-development","category-parenting-2","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-child-development","tag-child-rearing","tag-guilt","tag-human-interest","tag-parenting","tag-parents","tag-pregnancy","tag-pregnant","tag-psychology","tag-worry","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Tip 2 stop reading every book or magazine you find on parenting<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
Tip 3 trust yourself<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n
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That baby is YOURS!<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
You the parent[s] have to trust yourself at some point and you can start right now.<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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