I have been told many times, that my parenting techniques are archaic and outdated …. and I am certainly feeling that society is moving beyond me. But there is a new, emerging aspect within accepted parenting that is frustrating and saddening. And that is the normalisation of bad parenting …. both in society and now in the media.
Many times I have encountered mums, who have resorted to changing their child’s nappy on the floor, because ….. “the little darling won’t lie still on the change table”.   The willingness of parents to relinquish both their control and their position in the household, giving way to a child’s whim, frustrates me, considering that these parents will then complain bitterly when their child turns into an unbearable brat.
But …. the real kicker, is that now this style of “cream puff” parenting, seems to have attained normal status in the media. Two brands of toddler nappy … Babylove and Huggies, market their new product on the fact that children won’t stay still to be changed. We are letting parents shirk their role as parents, and enabling them by telling them its alright to be slack, and here is a product that will allow your child to rule you yet again.
Children CAN lie still on the change table. Insisting on that doesn’t make you a terrible parent ….. but it does make you the one in charge.
