Beware of Toddler

[perth]

Originally Posted by LabRat

Muzzles don't come in 2T.

I've read this thread several times and never caught this. Now the image of it has got me laughing way more than I probably should.

The advice of the childless really can be helpful. It's a totally different perspective. There has been plenty posted in this forum by the "child-free" that has been very helpful and I've often taken it to heart and availed myself of it in real life. The problem, I think, comes not from the advice itself (which really is sometimes helpful, sometimes garbage, I've actually had someone tell me that "a little bit of benadryl will put a stop to his crying") but in the attitude of the advisor. Often it's not "this is how *I* would do it" but "this is how is *should* be done". Well, without the empirical evidence that comes with years of child rearing, you're not really qualified to use the sweeping judgement implied by the attitude.

But yeah, there are a lot of people on this board who's opinion I value and trust, whether they're parents or not. By the same token, there are people on this board who seem to specialise in garbage. The hard part comes in figuring out, based on what I read, who's joking, who's serious, and who is full of shit. Actually, that's not very hard at all.