I have decided (for now... because I only have 6 months of experience with just one baby) that parenting plans are bullshit.
Attachment parenting is bullshit, mainstream parenting is bullshit... its all bullshit.
I have a perfectly healthy, happy and wonderfully delightful 6-month old. I don't believe there is much I could have done differently to have made him any happier.
I know different things work for different parents and babies... and this is my main point.
EVERY single minute philiosophy of these certain 'brands' of parenting can't possibly work for every family, right?
I co-sleep (yes, gasp, my child sleeps in my bed with me every night) and I formula feed (Oh, the HORROR). The reasons don't matter. What matters is that they work FOR ME.
I believe that whatever works for a mother and her baby is the right thing FOR THEM.
I'm so tired of all these preachy, know-it-all mothers out there who think their way is the only way. It's not. Stop judging.
If you want to complain about my parenting style more than you already do, complain about the fact that my child hardly ever cries (unless he's hungry), and that he sleeps all through the night EVERY single night. I'm not saying this is because what I do is right and what you do is wrong... only that it probably isn't an indication that I'm doing things wrong.
