Ive seen super nanny thousands of time and she makes it all look so easy. But my little boy has other ideas! The naughty step is hilarious to him and he will not give up crying at bedtimes, so i get him to sleep the way i have done since he was born......which is lay next to him and sing to him.....shocking i know!!!.....and he goes off like a dream(Until a little later in the night, but thats a different problem)
What gets me is that my friends seem to have the perfect children that miraculously go to bed at seven and sleep all the way through in their own bed....and they even eat fruit!!!!!! So yet again i am made to feel like the useless mother is indulging their child. But am i in the wrong? Should i force my child to cry for an hour or two just so that he goes to bed when i want him to, surely i have decided to have children and therefore luxuries such as watching a tv programme all the way to the end go out the window! Harvey will only be little for a insignificant period of his life...soon he wont want me to lay next to him and cuddle him.....so surely i should be satisfied with the fact that he is fine, he has enough sleep, he is gradually learning to sleep on his own and probably sooner or later he will eat fruit and veg...i did! I should make the most of the time that we get to spend together....as long as i dont turn him into a spoilt brat!
So i have decided that i will not be forced by this nanny culture to raise my child a set way, ill raise him how i think is best, after all i think i know him better than Jo Frost!
My daughter likes Supernanny too although my older son once said: 'Why is it the bad boys are always called Ryan?' Which is true. I agree with setting boundries but real life isn't always that simple and God alone knows we're surrounded by 'experts' (usually with a product to flog) telling us how to raise our kids and are we doing a better job of it? We're certainly more paranoid about it - parenting has become a competitive sport!
ReplyDeleteI once told my daughter who had been talking non stop for about four hours that if she could keep quiet for Five Minutes - I'd give her a pound. That's how bad a mother I am. I bribe my children to shut up. Naturally she lasted about 10 seconds . . . .