I’ve been cruising through some parenting and mommy blogs today and I gotta tell ya…it’s a little scary. This isn’t going to be an attack, because quite honestly, a lot of the women I’m reading seem to be very nice people…but damn…I was thinking to myself ‘can’t ya’ll make a decision regarding your child without consulting surveys, studies and the blog collective?’
But then I found out WHY parents seem to have no idea whether they’re coming or going:
A five year study conducted at Texas A&M University recently reported that the amounts and quality of time parents spent with their children has a direct effect on children’s rates of obesity. In general, researchers found the amount of time a mother spent with her child, her work stress and her income level had a larger impact in lowering the child’s risk of obesity than the father’s time, work stress, and income. Furthermore, the more time a mother spends with the child, the less likely that child is to be obese; conversely, the more time a father spends with a child, the more likely the child will be obese.
As if today’s parents don’t have enough reason to be neurotic, now we have scientists trying to pin childhood obesity on the amount of TIME you spend with your child.
I’m sorry, but the ONLY reason why Johnny is such a porker is because you buy him the Twinkies…not because you don’t spend the correct amount of time with him.
My advice to today’s mothers? Don’t parent-by-committee. Put down the child psychology books. Stop worrying about what ‘the survey says’ (anyone else channel Richard Dawson when they read that?).
Just trust your instincts.
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