MY PARENTING STYLES :

Just read a parenting mag and came across an interesting article about Parenting Styles....And it seems like I am the RUBBISH ONE AND PROUD OF IT ! :) Here are the reasons why I qualify :

1. I am naturally NOT a good cook ( and still not one ).

2. I am just an ordinary person who ended up being a parent.

3. I will take advice, but nothing seems to work !

4. Finally, i try and develop a plan that aims to keep everyone happy ( and it involves keeping baby quiet and happy, and at the same time, it makes daddy happy too coz daddy needs a rest after a ''hard'' day at work ! Hehehheee ! )

5. I cannot be a MANUAL MUM, or it will lead to madness ! ( the thing manuals never prepare you for is the endless maternal guilt )

6. My ''Bible '' : Confessions of a Bad Mother, by Stephanie Calman :P

7. My essential gear : A good book, baby's dummy, and a dose of SENSE OF HUMOUR and A DASH OF PATIENCE ( these are vital )

8. There is nothing more fulfilling than being a stay-at-home Wifey & Mummy looking after 2 ''princes'' at home ( and very proud of them both !! )


I also qualify for the SLINGER type ( a.k.a. ATTACHMENT PARENT ), and the reasons are :

- I love to keep my baby with me all the time ( literally ' attached ' via a sling while he is still not too heavy )

The idea of this type is that....The child will have none of the abandonment issues and insecurity complexes that produces most of our neuroses. ( So JJ will be Mummy's Boy with the good qualities of a GOOD BOY from his daddy )


Anyways, this picture is taken at Jacob's Ladder in Cheddar, after we climbed and climbed many steps to get up there. Worth it tho' coz I had the opportunity to go blackberry pickin'. The apples were too high up in the tree, so didn't manage to get any from up there. The watch tower behind me allows the person up theere to get an amazing view of the countryside in Cheddar, but since height is one of my many phobias, i had difficulty going up / down !