Originally Posted by Unregistered:
I have a mom of a 15 month old that came in today saying, "Well I had him dressed but then he wanted to wear his race car pajamas." Unzipped his coat and he is wearing the pajamas! What?! I have another family with a 22 month old. They told they were going shoe shopping. They came in the following morning saying, "We had to go to three different stores last night before she would agree to getting a pair shoes. She kept saying no to all the choices. She wanted purple shoes. Thank goodness the third store had purple ones!" Sorry, who is the parent?
This kind of parenting drives me nuts! No wonder there are so many parents having issues with their children as they get older when this is how they deal with situations! Giving kids at such a young age so much power only teaches them to continue the behavior.
These comments leave me standing there with my mouth open wondering if I just heard correctly what was said.
Sounds like these parents like making things harder than they really are. Most parents do.
Parenting is hard. Especially for first time parents.
But I pick my battles too and worrying about how hard parents make it isn't one of them.
As long as the child is dropped off and picked up on time and can participate in normal daily activities, I'm good.
The rest is in the parent.
My advice is that if this type of thing bothers you, offer the parent some resources on how to help their child make proper choices etc... Support and education go alot further than anything else and some parents truly appreciate it.