Offering 'advice' is the new trend in today's world. People have moved on from blogging about personal experiences to blogging about parenting strategies and advice. Everyone has something or the other
to say and offer an advice or two. Any site you turn to, there are
people advising you about bringing up empathetic children, what to say to
children and what not to say, how to make them successful individuals,
how mommies can handle pressure, what food to give and what not, gender
inequality and how to deal with it, taking care of parents in their old age etc etc.
I really don't know if its just me or if there are a lot of people going through the same feeling that this entire parenthood chapter is stretching a tad too far and is becoming quite an overdose.
Yes of course, there is no absolute need for me to read each one of these blogs ( and I don't) and get so worked up. But it has made me wonder - how did our parents bring
us up ? They didn't have these innumerable blog sites to refer to,
neither did they have a plethora of information available on the internet. And I think
we turned out fairly fine. All the things they couldn't teach us, we learnt on
our own. We did have our share of disappointments, but in retrospect,
such things only made us stronger.
Why is there a perennial struggle to excel in being the perfect parent/ human? How much of this advice can one follow? Situations are different and there is no fool proof method to cope with these. Honestly, it is easier to relax, go with your instincts, do what you think is
right for you and your child and things will fall into place.
Somewhere in my mind, I believe that in the
ordeal of doing all these 'perfect things' for our children, we are
actually making their life more imperfect.
