When you’re brand a new parent, everything kinda feels like a competition.
Nobody means to compete, there is just so much unspoken pressure for your baby to be at the same level, or above, their peers.
I was awful for that with my first!
He was such a good sleeper.
He was so smart.
He was doing so many things ahead of his age.
He was growing so fast.
He was the king of kings….when really, he was just my baby.
Why do we do that? Why do we put so much pressure on ourselves to have our babies be the best of the best?
I mean, yes, there are certain milestones they should meet by a certain timeline and those things should be kept an eye on… But potty training?
Who cares, really, how old you were when you stopped wearing diapers?
Is your date going to ask you that when you’re an adult? Not likely.
200 signs by 18 months! Amazing right? At 7, he remembers maybe 10.
Knowing the alphabet and the sounds each letter makes before he’s 3! Pretty incredible!! At 8 he’s behind his peers in reading level.
Why do we pressure ourselves as parents to have such smart, ahead of the curve babies? Nobody cares when they’re all playing at the park when they’re 10 or learning to drive when they’re 16.
Slow down and just enjoy it.
Or have more kids, because the more kids you have, the less you compare, the less you care and the more you just want to keep them all alive.
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