At its core, parenting requires ensuring that children are loved, fed, safe, and educated. Much of this is instinctive, shaped by individual relationships with each child – relationships that can be surprisingly unique even within the same family. Personally, I was baffled by how I could have three vastly different children and how, just as I adapted to one phase, they’d move on to the next. Parenting often feels like a constant game of catch-up.
I was a parent in the 80s and 90s when “to parent” was not a verb. We became parents and then reared our children. We were less shaped by the new movement of parenting and in doing so were probably protected from some of the stress that must bring to young parents.
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