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WW-I think we all need to find what works for our respective families. I doubt there will ever a moratorium on such statements. And there should not be. No one has said that you have to parent the way that poster has, and she is just entitled to voicing her opinion as you are. We all are. And frankly, that's what makes this forum work. We all have different perspectives to highly difficult child-rearing. It's allows us to see outside our own worlds and contemplate different methods that may work for us. We wouldn't get the quality of advice from parents that we all benefit from if we had some sort of status quo we adhered to. The essential sameness of our children is that they don't respond to traditional parenting methods, so why should we only offer a cookie cutter approach in our advice and opinions? Take what you can use, and leave the rest.
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I think we all need to find what works for our respective families. I doubt there will ever a moratorium on such statements. And there should not be. No one has said that you have to parent the way that poster has, and she is just entitled to voicing her opinion as you are. We all are. And frankly, that's what makes this forum work. We all have different perspectives to highly difficult child-rearing. It's allows us to see outside our own worlds and contemplate different methods that may work for us. We wouldn't get the quality of advice from parents that we all benefit from if we had some sort of status quo we adhered to. The essential sameness of our children is that they don't respond to traditional parenting methods, so why should we only offer a cookie cutter approach in our advice and opinions? Take what you can use, and leave the rest.
