Before becoming a mother, the author, a former editor at 'Parenting' magazine, believed she was well-prepared with expert guidance on child-rearing. However, after a few years of parenting her sons, she discovered that the strategies she promoted often failed to yield the expected results. For example, a common tip about offering choices to children backfired spectacularly, leading to unforeseen tantrums instead of cooperative behavior. This experience taught her that parenting is a complex, individual journey, where standard advice may not apply to every child.
The advice I printed on those pages has done little to help me successfully parent my sons.
I felt like a genius when I whipped out this old trick on my then-preschooler…but the reality was far different.
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