Open Letter To Parents Magazine

Posted on | November 23, 2009 | Comments Off on Open Letter To Parents Magazine

Meredith Magee Donnelly

Over the course of the 13 months of being a parent I have learned two very important lessons: 1) Parenting is the hardest, scariest job in the world. 2) Excluding the few monster moms flashed across Fox News (if it bleeds, it leads), most parents are doing their best so try not to be such a critic of others‘ parenting styles.

With these lessons in mind I was disheartened by a recent article in Parents magazine, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Baby?, that centered on the theme “Get over it”, in response to mothers hesitant about sleep-training their babies, leaving babies to cry in cribs, or, gasp, exclusively breast feeding. As a pro-attachment parenting mom I can not help but feel that this article was a direct critique of how I choose to raise my child. (to continue…)