Before Larry and I got married, we got an awesome custom-made book filled with recipes, old photos of us and sagely marriage wisdom from our family and friends. Our “Marriage Survival Handbook” is five years old now, the pages well-worn as we turn to some of our favorite recipes year after year.
And the advice still stands. One of my favorites? “Never go to bed angry.”
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In that same vein, I’ve begun collecting “parenting wisdom” on a pinboard of the same name. You can see some of the gems I’ve pinned below:
Of all the pins I’ve collected so far, this one is by far my favorite, from How to Be Perfect Parent in 5 Easy Steps… or Probably Never:
Writer Una LaMarche begins her post rather uncomprimisingly:
“I don’t dole out much parenting advice as a rule, largely because I have an almost 18-month-old and spend most of my days feeling like a complete and utter fraud and failure. I know that sounds depressing, but here is the truth that will set you free: That’s what parenting is.“
The rest of her post follows with some of the most candid advice about what it’s like to raise a child I’ve seen anywhere. And I love it – the brashness, the sass – all of it. Sometimes, as much as all of the parenting books and resources out there want to sugarcoat the finer points of parenting a newborn, it’s nice to have someone just tell it like it is.
So in that same spirit: what’s your sagely parenting wisdom? Tell it like it is in the comments!
