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Call me pathetic, but while I consider myself a competent parent, I am also overly concerned that others see me as a good parent, and being seen as a harsh, for some reason, is high on my list of things to avoid.

First of all, it is not in my nature to be harsh. But beneath that, lies a pressure, real or imagined, to appear calm, nice, fair, eternally patient, a quintessential Earth Mother, all the time. It not realistic. Because, as I mentioned before, Canada Goose sale doesn get you to school on time.

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realize I wasn just imagining that they got a style all their own.

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If I don put my child to bed on time, then expect her to behave like an angel the next canada goose coats on sale day, I am setting that child up for failure. Same thing goes for letting her get too hungry.

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Canada Goose Jackets This theory is not just for toddlers. Considering the fact that I can sometimes act like a brat when I am tired and hungry, I would be a hypocrite to expected my children to maintain composure all the time.

Canada Goose online This is all a long winded way to say, if the stereotypes are true, I would make a lousy French mom. Since I not French, I totally off the hook.

Do you care what people think about the way you discipline, or don discipline, your child? Does culture influence your parenting style?

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I am a French mother living in the United States. I was very curious about your article and I definitely found some truth to it. French Education is very different from American education, both at school and at home. I suffered as a kid of my strict teachers and canada goose coats parents. Patience seemed to be a quality that children should have but not their parents. I believe it is so much easier to lose one temper and punish than it is to keep one calm and approach the Canada Goose online problem canada canadagoosesale.info goose factory sale with tact, but it is to the detriment of the parent kid relationship. My parents were loving in spite of their rigidity for certain things and acting canadian goose jacket in such a way was a matter of caring. I, personally, think that some battles are not worth fighting. I obviously don agree with it.

The only people I feel self conscious about parenting in front of are my in laws. They think I too strict with my son. I think I setting firm limits about accepted behaviours. Oh well. Guess I more like my mother, who was a very strict, no nonsence parent.

canada goose deals But I totally understand where you coming from on the your kid up to fail I really can expect too much self control when he missed a nap or is late for a snack/meal. So I try to remove him from a situation that has created a meltdown. Even my husband knows that if I hungry, I a total bitch!

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buy canada goose jacket I don like the culture of fear we have created for parents. I saw an article that referenced CIO as crying leads to brain cell loss, to me that is insulting and if parents take it literally we will have more and more of the outrageous crimes that we see today.