The Journey of a Friendly Giant

New parents have a bed reputation for being overbearing, too rigid and strict and worried for nothing ... because according to the generation before us, yes I'm talking about our parents, we turned out "fine". I used to agree. When I was pregnant. In fact  I didn't even buy any parenting books, and thought the best source of information were my midwives and my family.  Now that I have a child however, I realize that I was wrong. I'm exactly the kind of over bearing parent I've described above and I couldn't care less about your opinion.  I love my son more than anything else in the world. And when you love someone that intensely, their wellbeing becomes your obsession.  So yes... I do have hard limits and cringe at he thought of my baby eating junk food... but who the hell cares? Is respect too much to ask for? The midwives have also done a wonderful job of empowering me to be confident in my decisions about parenting. My family as well, ...