I think a common misconception about parenting is that anyone KNOWS the right way to parent. I'm sorry, no matter how many books you read or classes you take, your child will not receive parenting the same way as anybody else's. Parenting is like anything else: You do the best you can, learn from your mistakes, and do what works best for them.
'Enjoy it now; it gets harder' or 'Just wait until XX age; you'll think this was easy.' Every stage of parenting has different struggles. I don't think one stage is the hardest or easiest. This advice is invalidating to a struggling parent.
That there is this mysterious maternal instinct that makes women intuitively know what their baby needs and makes it easy for them to care for it. It's so much more complicated. Everyone has to learn to be a parent as they go and continue to learn with each new phase and each child.
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