Never in the history of bringing up babies has so much advice been so easily accessible by so many.
Every bookshop has a parenting section and pretty well every book has a website. If you Google a problem, you will find contradictory solutions galore.
An internet journalist said that the experts didn’t realize how daunting they were to mere mortals and that most parents find it easier to take tips from their friends than from books and a bossy nanny state.
At a Cambridge University seminar attended by Daisy Goodwin, producer of the recent, controversial reality TV parenting series Bringing Up Baby, many mothers said they felt hypnotised and disempowered by both the abundance and the contradictions of all the advice, especially when claims are made (wrongly in the case of Goodwin’s programme) that certain practices can permanently damage, even threaten, the lives of babies.
My advice to any parent is to survey the parenting shelves, the TV programmes and the internet sites with the same subjectivity that you use when you select a magazine or a cookery book.
What do you think? Do you feel the same way? Feel free to share your thougths on this
Alvaro Castillo has been researching on healthy parenting for many years. Check his website for more information in www.myhomeparent.com or check out articles at
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