The Search for the Perfect Baby

» rahunter_nf - Good advice!

Good advice! My wife and I have a five-year-old boy and four-year-old daughter. Neither of them was like the baby that you described in the opening paragraph of your article, and neither of them acts perfectly now. However, we couldn't trade either of them for anybody else's child.

-- posted by rahunter_nf

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» soli - change topics please

Hey Jeri,

Every time I read your articles I wish that I had found you when my children were babies. I wish I had held my babies more.

But as I was lamenting tonight it hit me that they are still little kids... And I am just dreaming when I look back at how sweet they were as babies and long for those days... One day soon they will teenagers and I'll be looking back at today and wishing I'd loved them more right now... but it is so difficult sometimes. =0) They are great kids but they are sinners like the rest of us.

Anyway can I talk you into changing from Infants to Seven-Year-Olds? I need someone to write me encouraging articles. I need articles like "Don't add up how much he's cost you by chewing up his clothes and spilling Drinks on carpet-- he's worth it." And "Don't worry about her fixation with clothing and Barbie Dolls"...

OK I'm kidding but kinda serious. I find it very difficult to balance myself. I don't want to spoil my kids but I think I come down too hard on them. What to do?

Let me know when you change to dealing with older kids. Of course by then mine will be teens. YIKES!!

Sally
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