I'm new here, just starting to see the light after a year of PND and thought I'd say hello.
I also wanted to say that we're all told, over and over again, that we can never be a perfect parent, we just have to be good enough, but I want to know if anyone thinks that they are a perfect parent?! Not in any arrogant or bad way, not being competitive or even comparing yourself to anyone else, but just that you are the only mum or dad that your baby is going to have, so you're the best. In that way you're the perfect parent. You will do the best you can, you'll never do anything that you really, really think will be harmful to your child, so surely that's great. Of course you'll leave your child on his/her own for a while when he/she really doesn't want you to leave the room, or you'll give him sweets or cake or fewer than his recommended five-a-day fruit'n'veg, but YOU'RE THE PERFECT PARENT for your child. Does any one else think that perhaps the health visitors and doctors are wrong and that it is, in fact, possible to be a perfect parent, in your own eyes, and not just 'good enough'?
Anyone? :-)
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mex · 28/06/2007 20:33
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